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Data reporter at Bloomberg News. Usually writing about transportation and cities. Clips and contact info at agordon.me Newsletter, non-fiction book recommendations: https://buttondown.com/Booktime
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I only note this for the irony, not because I think it matters, but air traffic controllers are 75% white and 84% male. www.faa.gov/about/office...

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 40 days ago • 30 comments

I must have missed this part of the Taylor Branch trilogy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/n...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

My PSA for today is to feel free to not be glued to the news for the next four years if it helps your mental health. Support journalism outlets you like with subscriptions. Read them once a day, or once every other day. Save your time and mental energy for other things.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Inquiring minds (OK, me) want to know: What were the most expensive cars we saw? Thread:

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

We took 100+ hours of footage of Lexington Ave in Manhattan, capturing some 75,000 vehicles before and after congestion pricing started, and found the drop in vehicles appears to be coming entirely from fewer personal cars. Also no change in avg car value. Congestion pricing is working (for now).

submitted 45 days ago • 53 comments

I have been listening to the back catalogue of the In Our Time podcast and in 2000 they did an episode on climate change. The expert panel said well this could be very bad but fortunately there's plenty of time to do something about it and humans are too smart to just ignore something this serious.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

"I'm not being glib when I say that LA's leaders demonstrated more situational awareness for the 'traffic nightmare' on the first night of the World Series than they did for this real-life nightmare."

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

As a former ski instructor I could not be more supportive of this labor action.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Guy Drives A Car Into Manhattan To Drive A Horse Around Manhattan has to be my favorite NYT Congestion Pricing character so far

submitted 56 days ago • 109 comments

It's not congestion pricing, it's a Midtown Access Convenience Fee.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

I just caught up with RRR, having completely missed the hullabaloo when it came out. We were **supposed** to be laughing at the guy doing bicep curls with ropes tied to a tiger caught in a net as resistance, yes?

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Hour 5 inside Judge Gordon's chambers as MTA officials try for the 107th time to explain what a "cordon zone" is

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

The thing that has always annoyed me, personally, about the CP environmental review nonsense is you're not building anything new or doing anything permanent. Just turn the cameras on and see what happens. This is a very easy experiment to run with completely reversible outcomes.

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Really needs to be underscored how the judges deciding the fate of congestion pricing are not experts on environmental review laws, the environment, transportation, pollution, or anything remotely relevant. The judge currently pontificating in chambers is a commercial and trade expert.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

No matter what happens with congestion pricing, my hope for 2025 is a single NYC politician fights as hard for a new live-saving protected bike lane as NJ politicians are fighting to stop a sub-$10 toll for driving into one of the most congested traffic areas in the world.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments