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Is this possible? Is it a good idea? slate.com/news-and-pol... @slate.com

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Saw this anecdotally, but nice to see some studies. nylcv.org/news/new-stu... @lcv.org

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

submitted 26 days ago • 117 comments

Thanks to Council Member Inna Vernikov, 33 fewer families can move to South Brooklyn. But 11 more cars can.

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

submitted 27 days ago • 511 comments

“I am here because I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power at the Department of Justice.” — Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, April 8, 2025. We have been here before. What did we do about it?

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

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Why should we subsidize public transit? Transport scholar Todd Litman lays out all the arguments: www.planetizen.com/blogs/134716...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 286 comments

The US Department of Justice, under a zealous Attorney General, is rounding up thousands of legal residents for detention and summary deportation. Disloyalty and membership in illegal organizations are alleged but not proved. I refer, of course, to 1920.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Keep reading what Trump is trying to accomplish with tariffs. To me, seems like he is trying to turn USA into Putin's Russia.

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Knicks Legend Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier: ‘I’m Loving The Congestion Pricing’ - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/27/k...

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I can't believe Trump Admin complaining about disorder on the NYC subways and then cutting mental health and addiction funding. The two are closely related. @nyc.streetsblog.org www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat,” writes @davidzipper.bsky.social in CityLab.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

holy shit. families for safe streets just passed the nation’s first law requiring repeat reckless drivers get automated speed limiters installed on their cars. (real quick, let’s talk about why this is a game changer…)

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Now that this NJ highway widening isn't needed because of Congestion Pricing, what else can we do with $11 Billion? @nyc.streetsblog.org nyc.streetsblog.org

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The unelected copresident has happily tweeted word of the president's anticonstitutional threat to use the “obsequious instruments of his pleasure” in Congress to nullify the federal courts by withholding federal funds from them.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Sean Duffy wants kids to be late to school.

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MTA will end MetroCard BEFORE its key partner, Westchester County Bee Line Bus, will get OMNY. Bus riders get those rolls of coins ready! So mean to suburban riders www.mta.info/press-releas... @nyc.streetsblog.org @transitcenter.bsky.social @mta.info @tstc.bsky.social @ridersalliance.org

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The administration gets bolder each time a strong institution bends the knee. We saw it in media: The LA Times pulls an endorsement. ABC offers a $15m settlement. The WaPo kills op-eds. Now, higher education: WSJ reports that Columbia is caving. Minutes later, White House puts $175m hit on Penn.

submitted 47 days ago • 20 comments

Just so this is clear, an unelected group of government employees blackmailed a private organization's security firm to help them break into that private organization's headquarters by threatening to terminate their other contracts. Giving Watergate vibes.

submitted 47 days ago • 46 comments

Falling rents? Sigh. @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

If USDOT is withholding transportation funding for unsafe transport, it looks like they’ll have to majorly cut road/highway funding.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Gridlock Sam: Trucks Aren’t Rerouting into the Bronx or Staten Island to Avoid Congestion Pricing - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/19/g...

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