"Subway Builder understands an important thing: It is fun to build trains." Check out our review of the public beta of Colin's SUBWAY BUILDER! If you like train games, simulation games, and/or public transit, this is an indie game for you: punishedbacklog.com/subway-builder…

Staten Islanders are high-brow traditionalists. They prefer the tactile dignity of a paper map, they hold a hiraeth for an incarnate world over a virtual one. A world of ensouled bodies over pixels. Theirs is not a world of ones and zeroes, but of straights, rivers and bays. The

Its not about the map its about sending a message

feeling a little over-optimistic, here's my proposal for charlotte LOOP #make277atransitcorridor

I love the little streets of Chinatown

70s/early 80s autumnal city custom map theme for #subwaybuilder!! Colin

Sometimes, a game reveals more truth than a policy paper. After hours of playing #SubwayBuilder developed by Colin , I wrote about what it teaches us about cities, transit, and why “1 + 1 = 3” in network planning. New essay up now ↓ arnulfoaldaco.substack.com/p/i-spent-too-…

Been here 1.5 years but still haven't hit all of the trains 1✅ 2❌ 3❌ 4✅ 5✅ 6✅ 7✅ A✅ B✅ C✅ D✅ E✅ F✅ G❌ J✅ L✅ N❌ Q✅ R❌ W✅ Z ✅ S (42nd) ❌ S (Franklin) ❌ S (Rockaway) ❌

My Chicago play through in Subway Builder

De-interlining advocates conveniently forget how pretty interlining is on maps

"Let's just do pre-fab housing, that would be much cheaper!" Great idea, except it's mostly banned by regulations, the savings are eaten up by union-imposed labor costs, and it doesn't fix the zoning problems anyway. "Oh, that stuff is dumb." Great you're beginning to get it

With all the subway lines in LIC it’s strange that it took so long to Manhattan-ize but I’m glad it’s happening now

When you find an article that disproves your entire thesis 12 hours before the term paper is due and decide to say "fuck it":

college

Always making new data visualizations 📊