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Just got a pollster call asking how likely I’d be to vote for Eric Adams for mayor if he ran as a republican.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A new apartment building? On scenic Empire Blvd? Jammed between a four-story self storage and McDonalds? There goes the neighborhood!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#MysteryMonday: Have you ever noticed this unusual wallpaper when riding the #NYCsubway? #DidYouKnow that it features a repeated pattern of the official seals of both New York City and New York State? The wallpaper is standard on R-46 cars, which have been running in the system since the 1970s.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

[extremely Long Island accent] “And the bond covenants were sacred, unalterable by city, state, or federal government.”

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

submitted 28 days ago • 158 comments

Starbucks the company gets a bad rap, IMO. It is regularly blamed for wider phenomena (chains crowding out independents, fall in in-person consumption). What it actually did: stimulate a boom in independents, raise the floor on employee benefits, and create 3rd places. True, not fully public spaces.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Congestion pricing: • revenue-positive • targeted (tailored to periods of scarcity) • positive externalities, feedback loops Widening roads: • costly (land acquisition, construction, forgone property tax) • blunt (results in roadway excess most of the time) • negative externalities, feedback loops

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

The limiting constraint in my line right now at JFK T1 is, incredibly, they don’t have enough bins for security!

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Prescient words from Matt Dellinger’s 2010 book, Interstate 69: “Transportation progressives may face a debilitating irony: The very techniques they have perfected for slowing down highway projects might be brought into play against more eco-sensitive endeavors like transit and high-speed rail.”

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

A public transit agency objecting to a new development because it might cause too many people to ride its trains and buses is peak American governance

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

Many people are saying this

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: impeached Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol assumes power in … Slovakia?

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

“We’re going to reduce traffic, improve air quality, and fully fund the MTA - all while keeping costs low for drivers.”

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

“Tests were conducted by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) to determine what the maximum vertical air velocity was that patrons, particularly women wearing skirts, did not find objectionable.”

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you will about the scaffolding, I find it a lovely reminder of vacationing in Bologna.

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

The Power Broker, which relies on legendarily thorough reporting, also sometimes has this “just so” quality where Caro is like “Moses could have easily not done the BAD thing, and built the GOOD thing instead.” And then his evidence is some guy on the street said so.

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments