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Jedwin Mok

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Jedwin Mok

@jedwinmok

Transportation Planner & Researcher | Creative Director @uxforcities | Research Lead infrastoryinsights.com | fmr: @fietsprofessor, CS @UofT

Toronto, Ontario

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Joined September 2021

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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Apr 16, 2023
How did European cities get their human-centric streets and public spaces? Why could they escape the car-dependent status quo, while North America seemingly can’t? There's one EASY trick planners and engineers don't want you to know about: Street Experiments. 🧵 1/
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Sep 17, 2023
And if you can’t afford a car or can’t drive, it turns into a 58 minute city. Great work
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Apr 4, 2024
The average car occupancy in the US is 1.5. A bus only needs 3 people on it to be more space efficient than a car. No politics here, just facts and logic!
Bryan Griffin
@BryanDGriffin
Apr 3, 2024
DESANTIS DEPOLITICIZES TRANSPORTATION "Some activists want to make driving so miserable that people have to abandon their cars." Leftist cities and counties will cut lanes for half-empty buses and exorbitant bike lanes. "That's not going to happen in FL." -@GovRonDeSantis
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Mar 30, 2024
“Neighborhood character”
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Jul 12, 2023
I've never been more convinced that NYC is the only place in the United States that meets every qualification to be considered a real city
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Sep 20, 2024
4 years ago, Toronto had almost no dedicated cycling infrastructure. Today, the city has the fastest growing cycle network and bikeshare system on the CONTINENT. This was ONLY possible because of a series of no-consultation pilot projects that took space away from cars! 1/🧵
Mike Crawley
@MikeCrawleyCBC
Sep 20, 2024
SCOOP: ⁦@CBCNews⁩ has learned the Doug Ford government is considering legislation to ban municipalities from building any new bike lanes that result in reducing any motor vehicle lanes. #onpoli 👇🏻Full story👇🏻 cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Aug 2, 2023
"Nobody takes a train from Germany to France"
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Oct 5, 2023
Crazy how there's almost no difference between parody and reality
Local Metro
@GoLocalMetro
Aug 16, 2022
After feedback from multiple local businesses that Metro construction may inconvenience them, we've completed a new design for the central Downtown station! Building 300 feet below ground ensures the least disruption while adding less than 15 minutes to each rider's travel time.
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Jul 16, 2023
Oh no! The street was pedestrianized. Now there's no garbage or emergency services, all the stores are going out of business, and everyone's trapped in their 15-minute city bubble. It's a warzone!
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Apr 19, 2023
Ottawa built a rapid transit line for only $21M: - Buy an old freight line - Build passing tracks where strictly necessary - Run frequent service with modern European DMUs - Feed the line with frequent busses This is the pinnacle of service-first planning; a model for NA.
Jonathan English
@EnglishRail
Apr 19, 2023
Original OTrain Trillium Line opened 2001, 8km long. Cost: $21 million Barrhaven OTrain Extension now planned, 10km long. Cost: $4.019 billion
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Apr 26, 2023
Omaha Streetcar: - $64M/km - slow, mixed traffic streetcar that adds zero additional transportation value - 15-20 minute headways Brescia Metro: - $50M/km - fully automated, tunneled/elevated light metro, true rapid transit fed by bus + regional trains - 90s headways Extortion.
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@augustAP12
Apr 26, 2023
the proposed omaha streetcar is one of the most egregious examples of a small, useless streetcar in a mid-sized US city. it is *entirely* paralleled by the longer, existing bus rapid transit line less than 400 metres away 1/3
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Jul 31, 2022
High speed rail - airport integration in Europe is stunning. This is Frankfurt Airport, where there are frequent and fast connections direct to any city center in Germany, eliminating hundreds of domestic flights every day.
Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Sep 30, 2024
I now understand why Milan’s M5 was so cheap (~$125M/km). Beyond the short & stubby automated trains, shallow cut-&-cover stations, and standardized facilities… …the materials catalog looks like a 1980s suburban office park in Mississauga.
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Jedwin Mok
@jedwinmok
Aug 1, 2023
North American cities: Stop spending insane amounts of money on slow, low-utility trams in car-centric suburbia. Instead build fast, through running, electrified regional rail, and feed it with buses. Grassy tram tracks in the median of a stroad can't undo decades of sprawl :)
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