jeremyzorek.bsky.social
Fan of all things transit, Rutgers graduate
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This was better in my head
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32 hours more like 32 bus amirite
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Need a picture of this predicament immediately
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Let us remember that *91%* of commuters from NJ into NYC take transit already. A genuine fraction of Murphy's constituency is actually impacted by this, whereas the vast majority of those who enter the toll zone do so on buses and trains that are starved of funding by the Murphy administration.
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I mean the MTA's own legal filing said that they're not going to stop operating the tolling until they're forced to, there's not much spine needed when they outright said it
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The board did no such thing, the state withheld approval themselves and the MTA could not proceed without it. Now the status quo is that congestion pricing is the law of the land and the MTA gets to continue with it. And Hochul herself just stated that the state is going to stand to fight Duffy here
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HOW
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They aren't going along with it, as per their own legal filing against Sean Duffy. The MTA is going to continue to operate the congestion pricing program until a court of law says otherwise
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My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
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Nothing is. It's New York Postism
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You love to see it!
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"Excellent, so the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is free to continue with the CBD Tolling Program, thanks Sean!"
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I wonder if this will get used as evidence against the notion that it's not set to reduce congestion in court
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Well also a total collapse of the MTA and subway system means a collapse of global finance
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Keep it running while you fight this in court. There is no legal basis for the revocation of the VPPP (or much of what Trump and Musk have done the last month).
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Of all the things that'll never happen, this one will never happen the most
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Yeah, I assume they just delay them all 20 hours instead
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Yeah, but afaik have no special tunnels for them? I believe the garrison tunnel is one track and then they routed the other around it
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Wouldn't the freight be the tunnels they single tracked for double stack clearance on the River Subdivision, not the Hudson Line?
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And of course them being Pennsylvania trolley gauge...
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SEPTA's K cars are totally inaccessible, and their door columns mean unlike a PCC, you can't add a wheelchair lift to them. It's highly unlikely they'd ever make it elsewhere other than presumably the trolley museums in PA once they retire