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NYC Congestion Pricing Month 1 🚶‍♀️Foot traffic up 4.6% 🚌 Bus ridership up 6% w/ improved bus times 🚇 Subway ridership up 7% 🚗 Vehicle traffic down 9% ⏰ Drive times 20% - 50% faster 👍 60% of NYC voters want it to continue 👍 66% support among those who drive into congestion zone at least once a week

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Running for local office is easier than you may think - many local elections often only have one person running, and in 2022 there was an East Bay community college board election where nobody ran. And there are organizations such as @runforsomething.net that can help out!

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

A great lede for what continues to be one of the best essays written about municipal government by Jerusalem Demsas. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Big issue in San Diego, Navy is one of our biggest employers. Closely related to what @andrewdyer.bsky.social is covering on the military beat for @kpbssandiego.bsky.social. Hoping to not hear it's big here.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email. Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

If you live in CA, CT, IA, IL, KS, or ME you might have an election on Tuesday! And I made it really easy! I created a guide so you can be as informed as possible! I even included Maps so if you don’t know if you’re in that district, you can find out ariellaelm.substack.com/p/every-tues...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

SNAP provides a modest $6 a day for food to families, people with disabilities, and workers in need. Republicans are considering cutting SNAP and Medicaid while adding trillions to the debt by lowering taxes to benefit the wealthy. Government can and should prevent those in need from going hungry.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

This cancelled project aimed to help state DOTs provide ways for people with disabilities to still get around when roadway construction disrupts sidewalks and other access. Why cancelled? The EO language: “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) web.archive.org/web/20240813...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

With the cancellation of 08-166 the total money "saved" by cancelling CRP projects is $6.6 million. Some of the projects were nearly finished. If you're a transportation person who relies on NCHRP, TCRP, ACRP, or BTSCRP - talk to your peers about this. Silence isn't going to save us.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Why won’t they do something real?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 2 days ago • 2880 comments

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

For some in positions of power, the greatest fear isn't that a major policy might fail, but that it might prove wildly successful. Today's move to halt congestion pricing says nothing about transportation or economics—but everything about the people who oversee them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

For highway projects, states only pay 20% and federal government pays the rest, but for California High Speed Rail the ratio is flipped around - 80% comes from state government.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

Undocumented immigrants with no other criminal record have been transferred to Guantanamo. Access to lawyers, denied. Their families kept in the dark. Why were they taken from the U.S. and moved to a prison designed for terrorists? Unclear. Evidence suggests it might be because of their tattoos.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 11 days ago • 740 comments

Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch 25 Starship rockets this year. The last one exploded, sending debris raining down on the islands of Turks & Caicos. He now has power over the federal agency that licenses launches. @propublica.org @heathervogell.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

I was in San Diego the last 1,265 weeks. I biked all around North Park and Uptown the last two Saturdays for errands+more. I locked to a tree on Fifth last Saturday morning because racks near the cafe were already taken by others. People were also riding city buses to get places.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

US Bike Work Zone Of The Year goes to Broadway in @cambridgemass.bsky.social. Everywhere else would have nixed all bike lanes to preserve a general purpose lane in each direction. Here, they closed westbound to cars but kept two-way for bikes.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

2 cities in the San Diego region really punch above their weight with bike/ped infra, National City and Encinitas

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The Hovenring is Eindhoven's spectacular circular cycling bridge. The cable-stayed bridge offers an exciting crossover. With its impressive pylon, 72 metre diameter, thin deck and conspicuous lighting, the suspended roundabout is a landmark for the city. dutchcycling.nl/know...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I realize there are pros and cons to every US time zone but today PT get the win. Possible to go out for a 3 hour ride at 3pm where literally every dude who owns a big truck is sitting on a couch or bar stool. One of the best days of the year for a peaceful road ride!

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Saw this on a lamppost near the Kluczynski Federal Building

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Protected bike lanes calm traffic and make everyone safer, including drivers "injury collisions along Fell dropped by 45% after the [protected] bike lane was installed, according to SF Open Data. Most crashes involved cars hitting cars or other objects – not bikers or pedestrians"

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 16 days ago • 738 comments

Looks like the Federal Highway Administration Complete Streets page is gone highways.dot.gov/complete-str...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

MTS is planning for a number of funding scenarios over the next few years. Discontinuing all Trolley service is not out of the realm of possibility. www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/c...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Data geeks, I know many of us don't like phone calls, but today I'm going to ask you to step out of your comfort zone for about 6 minutes. It's easy and I know you can do it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 22 days ago • 770 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 22 days ago • 83 comments

This is a huge red flag for a crucial, non-political federal agency. Unlike NHTSA, NTSB has pulled no punches asserting that Tesla Autopilot is dangerously designed. Musk once hung up on the NTSB Chair: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Join London Clarion Cycle Club today! www.londonclarion.org.uk #cycling #london #climatechange

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments