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capntransit, 22 minutes ago to random

RT @bellachu10 When contemplating “war” it’s helpful to consider who is doing the killing and who is doing the dying. Cars are inanimate objects used to wage war on PEOPLE. People on foot (and bikes) are dying at the highest rate in 40 years. There is no war on cars. There is only self defense.

capntransit, 1 hour ago to random

RT @ridersalliance

capntransit, 3 hours ago to random

RT @shellovvv In Waterford today [May 17] for the seasonal opening of New York State’s canal system more for WAMC News coming soon!

About ten pleasure boats in a lock, presumably on the Erie Canal
A woman sits on the bow of a pleasure boat, the Mendocino, while someone else sits in the pilot's seat.
Several pleasure boats cruise a canal, presumably the Erie Canal.

capntransit, 4 hours ago to random

RT @icgee It's Friday afternoon, can I be real for a sec about the realities of transit advocacy?

It's ridiculously underresourced, given the benefits of what we do. Philanthropy largely ignores transit, while pouring billions into causes that rely off of quality transit.

Worried about climate change? The single greatest threat to humanity & shared prosperity? Transportation is the 2nd largest source of emissions globally & the LARGEST source in the US.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791619959480791176.html

capntransit, 5 hours ago to random

RT @revents_sustbiz People over #parking: The U.S. cities reclaiming their streets. Amy Nguyen reports. #parkingreform #decarbonization #urbanplanning

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/people-over-parking-us-cities-that-are-reclaiming-their-streets-2024-05-08/

capntransit, 7 hours ago to random

RT @gothamist Canadian wildfire smoke likely to return to NYC and become 'a new norm,' experts say

https://gothamist.com/news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-likely-to-return-to-nyc-and-become-a-new-norm-experts-say

capntransit, 8 hours ago to random

RT @jmartineznyc MISSED THE BUS: MTA blames 80% of canceled express bus trips on operator shortage - with June service increase planned

“You can’t run the extra service if you can’t run what you have now,” says @bus_group

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/16/express-bus-canceled-mta-drivers/

capntransit, 10 hours ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 18, 2011: Areas without parking mandates in New York State include Buffalo, Canandaigua, Saranac Lake, Hudson, Manhattan below 110th and 96th Streets, and Long Island City.

After I posted this, @stephenjacobsmith found out that even though there are no parking mandates in Long Island City, there are parking incentives, which explains all the awful garages that have been built there in the past 25 years.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/05/manhattan-and-long-island-city-parking.html

capntransit, 22 hours ago to random

RT @upzonenj It's a little wild that due to the unwritten rules of NJ's congressional delegation, NJ-08 is for a Hispanic from Hudson, and NJ-10 is for an African American from Essex. If you're Jerry Walker from Hudson in 10, or Teresa Ruiz from Essex in 8, you can't realistically run and win

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @bfurnas “Manhattan's 96th Street will get a dedicated bus lane on both sides of Central Park as the Adams administration rolls out last-minute transit and streetscape improvements for congestion pricing…”

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/17/dot-reveals-new-bus-lane-plan-to-speed-up-crosstown-buses-in-upper-manhattan

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @nycbikelanes Dear @nycemergencymgt,

Parents with strollers and wheelchair users have the right to an unobstructed Cadman Plaza East.

@zachiscol, can you help remove this illegal barricade?

The Eastern District of NY has already secured the street with ADA-compliantly spaced bollards.

A close-up of the barricade blocking the sidewalk, right next to a tall steel fence.

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @marcelemoran If your street has room for parked cars it has room for trees

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @streetspac Surely the driver didn’t intend to kill anyone but the commercial-waste ecosystem creates conditions in which backing down a street and other dangerous driving maneuvers are commonplace. Absurd that NYC hasn’t even begun waste zone implementation yet.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/16/private-garbage-truck-driver-reversing-down-greenwich-village-street-fatally-strikes-man/

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @ctrailcouncil At our CPTC meeting in GCT with Metro North last night, they are not any closer to reinstating the Quiet Car. They recommend all advocacy efforts go through Connecticut DOT as a recommendation from them would be impactful.

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

We currently have a system where we rely on hundreds of millions of individual drivers. If any one of them has a genuine medical episode, let alone some lapse of attention or judgment explained away as a "medical episode" by the cops, it is very easy for it to kill or seriously injure that person and others.

We used to have a system where most people walked or were passengers and the really dangerous vehicles were guided by rails, but apparently this is progress.

https://www.amny.com/police-fire/one-dead-in-six-car-pileup-on-gowanus-expressway/

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

I hate tech hype as much as anyone, but I'm also thoroughly sick of smug urbanists repeating to each other, "haha Silicon Valley reinvented the bus again!"

Silicon Valley is not reinventing the bus. They're trying to find ways to deliver bus transit that isn't mandated to be a shitty underpriced charity service. And every time they're defeated by two-bit leftists who don't have the brains or the nerve to take the fight to the road lobby where it belongs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/uber-go-get-uber-announces-uber-shuttle-uber-caregiver-costco-perks.html

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 17, 2009, in which I called bullshit on the "But disabled people!" argument.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/05/disabled-cars-and-transit.html

capntransit, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

I'm already not boosting any quote boosts. I just blocked someone who used quote boost to call someone else out - something I was told not to worry about on Mastodon.

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

RT @kduggan16 NEW: The city plans to equip six piers for maritime freight late next year, but the project will barely make a dent in the city's estimated seven billion truck miles each year

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/14/city-plan-to-build-out-piers-for-maritime-freight-too-slow-experts

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

I was very happy to hear Jeremy Cooney, the new chair of the New York Senate Transportation Committee, say that his top priority is high-speed rail, and after that transit-oriented development and highway teardowns. He did mention increasing subsidized air travel, but let's hope he really prioritizes sustainable solutions!

https://capitolpressroom.org/2024/05/14/new-transportation-leader-in-state-senate/

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc Change — what a concept! Local pols statewide are demanding that Albany help the planet and our communities by committing to reducing driving by 20%:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/15/new-york-pols-push-bill-to-cut-vehicle-miles-by-20

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

RT @cdta We have an exciting announcement! The Nature Bus is back this month thanks to a partnership with the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy. Starting May 25, Albany residents can take CDTA to popular outdoor locations and enjoy free programming. More info: http://cdta.org/news/nature-bus-returns

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

RT @regionalplan We love to see it - Croton-on-Hudson is planning to turn a parking lot into condominiums, diversifying housing options and creating affordable units near transit.

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/croton-on-hudson/2024/05/14/croton-on-hudson-ny-affordable-housing-near-trains-could-happen/73561018007/