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I knew about the court of international trade because for some reason the last congestion pricing lawsuit before the policy began was heard by a judge of the court of international trade (Leo Gordon)

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 104 comments

I’m sorry but this is just dumb, because most issue polling is dumb and entirely dependent on how you frame the issues in the poll. At the end of the day, we should build more housing, transit, and clean energy because it’s good to build housing transit and clean energy

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

this is a perfect encapsulation of how NIMBYs think that young people deserve to be disenfranchised

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

lmfao chi ossé is very quickly becoming my favorite NYC councilmember

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

submitted 15 hours ago • 269 comments

trump tried to do something illegal, the MTA refused to comply, and the MTA just won the lawsuit. congestion pricing survives. this is a lesson for every organization and institution battling Trump: DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

I genuinely don't follow what point is being made here. Vacancies in New York are low because there isn't enough housing! This building is very expensive because ... there isn't enough housing! Where is the tension? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

someone alert Jake tapper, this could be bigger than watergate

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

manhattanites against the manhattanization of manhattan

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

making a right on red in NYC

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

speeding (and unsafe driving more broadly) is a violation of the social contract that results in over 40,000 deaths every year

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I got raked over the coals after the trial for suggesting OJ is really, truly, obsessively focused on finding the real killer

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

When anti-livable streets groups tell us very loudly who they are, we should listen.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

the fact that so many Republican senators who support vaccines voted to confirm an anti-vaxx mad man really reveals how the modern GOP is just a cult of personality around Trump more than anything else

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Brooklyn Democratic politics, whew

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

the real reason you can’t make your rent is NIMBY policies that make it illegal to build more housing

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

have you considered the fact that 25 year olds should be investing their money in index funds, not crypto scams

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

this guy is fucking senile and insane and I’m tired of the media pretending he isn’t

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

just tariff otaku things

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Drives me up a wall seeing the right wingers who completely reject the “city on a hill” ethos claim to be pro “American exceptionalism.” It’s total opposition to everything that makes America special just wrapped in the stars & stripes to distract the rubes

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

there is no greater indictment of American car culture than the school pick up line we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 4 days ago • 372 comments

additionally: policies poll very differently in abstract vs. when they are actually implemented tariffs were popular until Trump imposed them and they caused economic chaos congestion pricing was unpopular until it was implemented and reduced congestion in NYC

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments