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Normalize emailing your friends

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I made it look much better, and now if you have a Tidbyt, you can see a cute LIRR departures sign! You can choose your station, filter by direction, branch and stops! The app is called MTA Railroad Sign!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I haven't set up a network in a while, what < $200 router/AP units are we using now?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

"While Waymo proponents love to compare autonomous vehicles to human drivers on safety, the real comparison is Waymos to no cars at all — and no cars wins every time." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I have an Earth day tradition and it's listening to Earth by Lil Dicky. Historians will look upon this masterpiece in the future and conclude that it turned the tide on climate change.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Elizabeth Street Gardens update:

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Working on something fun

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone have a crisp recording of the LIRR station chime?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Bitcrushed door chime

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Good news, <bad news>

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Hi! I'm sending out my irregular newsletter that I'm using as a social media replacement later today! If you want to subscribe, give me your email: natalie.zone/newsletter

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Learned that March 18th saw 531,000 passengers, 7% higher ridership than the average ridership in March. It’s ~35,000 additional rides. I can’t say for sure how much of that is due to my SF Transit Operator Day Project. A huge thank you to everyone for riding Muni! www.sfmta.com/blog/thank-y...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I think one thing chatGPT's invention has revealed is how many people - including some very important people in society - find just basic reading and writing to be laborious and cumbersome to perform, and how oddly closely that type of strained literacy correlates with having other shitty opinions.

submitted 20 days ago • 42 comments

SF Muni v Waymo worldwide: >10X passengers <half budget Waymo costs taxpayers more per passenger than Muni bc of Alphabet's tax write off of Waymo's losses.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Really interesting and compelling piece from @chittimarco.bsky.social on the distractions of “BRT.” marcochitti.substack.com/p/down-with-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

the fbi needs to choose a fucking typeface

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

When Donald Trump said "it's all computer," he was actually talking about the challenges railroad museums face in preserving modern equipment for future generations.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

How it felt to be at Franklin Square

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Learning that VIA does not have conductors tonight, for really silly cost cutting reasons dating back to the 90s.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I trace the origin story of Seoul Metro Line 1, its keystone place within Seoul’s volatile rail history, and how this unique Metro line helped transform both Seoul and South Korea 🇰🇷 www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Andrew Cuomo, Elon Musk, and a solar panel plant boondoggle. Buffalo Billion revisited: “The spending fell far short of its economic development promises and was directly tied to one of the most sweeping corruption scandals to ever rock a [NY] governor’s office.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

submitted 42 days ago • 64 comments

repost to infuriate international best practices guys

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

Can't help but feel like Deloitte kind of mailed it in with their 2050 Vision Plan for NJ Transit. It's ambitious, but I feel like I've seen this map before.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

New York is so back baby

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments