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Why do trolleybuses 🚎 last longer than BEBs or hybrid buses? Less weight, and fewer components! Less weight = less wear on the chassis and suspension. Fewer components = fewer things to break!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

More like the finest of East Harlem (at least until it got bought out)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

there are many sources of the current constitutional crisis but at its very core is the fact that Republicans in congress have entirely ceded their power to Donald Trump the system is simply not built to withstand a voluntary abdication by one branch of government

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

submitted 12 days ago • 463 comments

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

Last paragraph of the memo from the DOJ explicitly states that DOJ was "concerned" Adams' indictment would "impact" his "Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts" on immigration. Wow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Eric Adams sold out this city to get the Trumps to fix his personal problem, simple as that.

submitted 12 days ago • 150 comments

Kathy Hochul must remove Eric Adams as mayor immediately

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

and now this:

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Happy February Tenth to all the Angels

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

advocates like myself have said over and over again that what makes subways safe is high ridership, not cops. lo~

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

There's a lot that's scary right now, but at least Mother Gaga is serving. I can't wait to hear Abracadabra in the club

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

gonna post this every day until the deadline: Feb. 14 if you want to vote in NYC's June primary YOU HAVE TO PICK A PARTY BY FEBRUARY 14 New York has closed primaries. if you're unaffiliated, you can't vote in June. if you're WFP or Conservative you *CANNOT VOTE IN DEM OR GOP PRIMARY

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Time for the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex Line!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So, we have been cooking for a while lately at Marron and we might be close to going public with our work on bus performances and priority in a non-biblical time. Stay tuned. But be patient.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

As with nearly all big changes we've seen in the city, we're slowly starting to reach the inevitable part of the process where, when the benefits are too obvious to ignore, the press starts to highlight them. A local TV news segment on bus riders is a very welcome development.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

When resentful NIMBYs whine about “muh parking” and “muh congestion tax” they purposely ignore a significant constituency: bus riders. Single-passenger vehicles slow down buses to a crawl and make people late for work and appointments.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

CBS2 follows @nyc.streetsblog.org’s lead, rides aboard the M50 and finds the ride has gotten a whole lot faster — www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

That these were the conditions as a three-day weekend was getting underway, a time when tons of people are typically trying to get out of town, is all the more remarkable. Congestion pricing works.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

In a recent report, Amtrak made fundamentally flawed arguments against through-running at Penn Station while pushing its unnecessary $16.7B project. The report is simply incorrect and should be dismissed. NYC is ready for through-running. Read our analysis now! www.etany.org/penn-station...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

American transportation planners be like:

submitted 38 days ago • 37 comments

We are governed by Rupert Murdoch's editors at the Post, exhibit the umpteenth

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I'm absolutely flabbergasted that medieval Bologna had so many towers. And they were so tall! Up to almost 100 meters! This definitely makes me reconsider my view of historical cities and architecture. Read the whole thread; it's great.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Congestion pricing coverage is peak economics Every person is like, "I didn't used to bear any of the external costs of my behavior. But now that I do, I am adjusting along an infinite variety of least-cost adaptive margins that no central planner could have foreseen or designed"

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Dear NYC Congestion Pricing data aficionados: I appreciated the temptation to monitor live traffic conditions for any particular route and try to draw broad conclusions. You may want to hold off 1 more weeks e.g. to take a look at ambulance response times. Much more important indicator.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Canal/Broadway on Day 3 of congestion pricing. This is frankly incredible.

submitted 46 days ago • 272 comments

Jamelle's thread is exactly on point. Every policy choice, including the status quo, will harm at least one person you find sympathetic. We have to be willing to accept that and weigh the tradeoffs in order to enact effective left policy

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Jaime Lerner, the former Mayor of Curitiba, says speed is key to breaking the anti-urbanist bureaucracy. And when merchants opposed a key part of his plan, he waited until courts closed, then forced 4 months of work into 48 hours - the final product was so good, the opponents dropped their complaint

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

I'll add one factor Sandy doesn't mention--the naturally cheapest form of housing (apartments) is banned in most of the places that LIRR serves. If you want to live there, for the most part, we're going to require you to buy a full quarter-acre.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Significant parts of MNR & the LIRR are powered by 3rd rail, but overhead catenary has lower installation and lifetime costs and is easier to maintain. The MTA should be planning to extend electrification on MNR & LIRR with catenary and ordering more trains that can run on both.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

sorry are you grumpy? are you being cranky? it's snowing in new york city today so I actually can't hear you at all. I'm in a magical and beautiful place where nothing bad happens so

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Periodically checking the Traffic view in Google Maps and cackling with glee at the "green" roads in the Congestion Relief Zone

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I guarantee you this woman could have taken the M11 bus, but she thinks it's for poor people

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment