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NIMBYs: "Tall buildings ruin the historic character of my city." Tall buildings in Xi'an, an actual historic city:

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I almost can't believe that this level of BS is put out there with a straight face. Somehow catenary is impossibly expensive, but batteries or hydrogen—which have much higher lifetime costs than de novo electrification—are just fine.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Fair to say AAR just put out some more 🐮💩.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Counterpoint: Congestion pricing, the Bayonne Bridge mess, every off shore wind project ever, CalTrain electrification (which was CEQA not NEPA, but point remains) -- www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/n...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Gov. Hochul, my birthday is March 20th. The only birthday gift I want this year is for you to tell USDOT to fuck off and leave congestion pricing alone.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As much as I'd love to see new TODs embrace a slightly different urban form and less parking, the five-over-ones that Denholtz wants to put up around Red Bank station would beat the hell out of what's there now. www.redbankgreen.com/2025/02/dumb...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Metro-North made an ass-backward rolling stock decision - opting for 60 hz electric locomotives with battery range extenders for Penn Station Access instead of just ordering MUs with 25 hz transformers. Notably - NJT has options on their MLIII order that could easily be executed by the MTA…

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Look, I am not a lawyer or a fancy Senator, but I could have told you he was lying.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

As expected, Cuomo is running. I don’t think it makes any difference whether he runs in a special or a primary, but starting ASAP-ish Lander, Ramos, Stringer, Myrie, and Mandami need to form an alliance and fully campaign as a team, we’re cooked otherwise bronx.news12.com/sources-andr...?

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

CTA's red line extension ballooning to $5.7 billion for a 9 km entirely above-ground suburban extension should set off alarm bells on anglosphere transit costs. higher-benefit projects like modernization of existing south side commuter rail is overlooked. the gold line should seriously be... 1/2

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Like so much else done by this administration, this is illegal, as @nyc.streetsblog.org has reported before. Assuming the governor allows the MTA to defend, there is should hopefully be a decent chance to get an injunction to stop this. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/31/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is how DOGE is making our government less efficient. Firing the people who conduct the benefit-cost analysis of transportation grants will cause worse decisions. It's penny wise, pound foolish. Their salaries are tiny compared to what they can do to deliver cost savings.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

democracy in michigan and wisconsin was crushed to the point of near-irreversibility until 2020 -- vastly worse than what trump seems likely to be able to do before 2028 -- and we fought back, inch by inch, until we took it back, despite Republicans having both structural advantages and real support

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

What do you call a cheese that's made in Philadelphia? Parmejawn.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

I'm confused, Metrorail goes to the Navy Yard. Somehow, DC is trying to revive its downtown but decrying more foot traffic? Friends like these... www.hillrag.com/2025/02/09/e...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Pedestrian Observations: Amtrak's Failure pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/10/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

It's super frustrating hearing New Haven complain about how much of its land is nontaxable while it holds on to the Goffe Street Armory, a huge empty structure just blocks from a community center and high school. Pull the plug-it's time to sell. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/goff...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

$1.2bn for 700ft of tunnel. That's got to be a record. tunnellingjournal.com/manhattan-tu...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

It's a lost nuance in transit's financial history, but these observations on the relationship between off-peak demand and overall profitability remain extremely relevant to system design discussions today:

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Can we get some help from the state Dems and DNC on reminding people who Cuomo is? Can we actually build an information machine and not assume voters just know stuff? Can the reform candidates please consolidate and strategize? I’d like Adams’ successor to not be another corrupt asshole.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If it's easy to send some PILOT revenue to the schools, do it, but the Northeast needs to build housing, especially by train stations, not hold it hostage to everyone else's wish lists. www.redbankgreen.com/2025/01/high...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sad the police accountability movement has gotten connoted the way it has, but "Defund the police" clearly bombed, and it's good to see Adams challengers ditching it. The next thing the anti-Adams camp needs to do is unite behind whomever leads by, like, June. gothamist.com/news/liberal...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If they want to be stubbornly stupid, you ignore them. That's what. This desire to have 100% unanimity on any policy is so misguided. We just need 50%+1.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

The Dutch have no problem putting a pub alongside an elementary school playground.

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

The photo used in this post could date back to Spring 2021. That’s a New Acela trainset in the background. It’s still not in service. When Amtrak finally puts these things into service it needs to fucking NAIL the intro. It cannot afford the publicity of removing them from service after launch.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

1/6 This is a refreshing piece. I don't endorse making farebox recovery the sole objective of transit service, but it's a better metric than it's been getting credit for. www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/progress-a...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Some good news on development in town. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/stat...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

🇮🇹 🤌 ⚛️ Italy to finalize legislation that will overturn nuclear moratorium 🫂 Legislation allows large and small modular reactors 🎯 Goal is 10-20% mix of nuclear on the grid by 2050 The country of Enrico Fermi wants to get back on track! 🔌💡 www.nucnet.org/news/italy-s...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

It's great to see 80 new homes approved in Milford. “I’m delighted to see affordable housing coming in ... this is a good thing,” said resident Therese Eke. www.ctpost.com/news/article...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

To say nothing of forcing people who might well use transit if it existed onto much less safe modes.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is language that suggests these people can be worked with to some extent. They'd call for killing Amtrak entirely if they thought it was worth their time.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment