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capntransit, 3 days ago to random

RT @mahoneyw Notably, Hochul rose to political prominence because of how well she managed a campaign against tolls for people commuting into a city

"The citizens of Buffalo and its first- and second-ring suburbs should not be penalized every time they leave their boundaries by paying tolls to drive to work, go to the mall, visit downtown attractions or take the kids to play hockey," she wrote in a 1998 op-ed

https://buffalonews.com/news/give-southtowns-drivers-a-break-and-get-rid-of-tolls-on-the-thruway/article_3325316f-b6d2-52b7-88c5-ba33c077c4f0.html

capntransit, 3 days ago to random

RT @marcelemoran You cannot design a more obviously progressive policy than charging a small minority of (largely high income) drivers to benefit a vast majority of (largely low + middle income) transit riders.

capntransit, 3 days ago to random

RT @openplans Mad that Gov Kathy Hochul has done a 180 on congestion pricing, wasting over a decade of progress & sticking NYers with delays, chaos & pollution?

Call your reps! Info & script to make it quick & easy:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFr7qAbSin2nyo_Mn8C1vGhS0-bDxYX4jZNxGSOs2R8/edit

capntransit, 4 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc Call out Hochul's hypocrisy by ringing her office.

518-474-8390

Hochul once spoke boldly and proudly about congestion pricing. Reading her words now is just sad: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/05/gov-hochul-should-read-gov-hochuls-press-releases-about-the-benefits-of-congestion-pricing…

capntransit, 4 days ago to random

RT @s_kenny25 Calling removing crosswalks a “safety treatment” is a great example of what’s so deeply wrong with the transportation engineering/planning profession.

capntransit, 4 days ago to random

"A fourth person familiar with the matter said Hochul is responding to worries raised by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader who is fiercely trying to win back a Democratic majority this year."

We've known for years that Jeffries is a car-brained idiot. The success of #CongestionPricing will help Democrats win back the house, not the other way around.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/04/hochul-congestion-pricing-delay-00161690

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

RT @railpassengers One of 123 ADA-based Amtrak station projects since 2011, the Montpelier Junction station along the Vermonter route is getting a makeover

https://vtdigger.org/2024/05/27/montpelier-amtrak-platform-undergoing-3m-upgrade/

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc After a car passenger is killed by a driver fleeing cops, Streetsblog examine police chases and found they remain historically high.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/29/in-hot-pursuit-nypd-chases-still-surging-unleashing-danger-on-city-streets

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

"The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced today that it has awarded an $83.3 million grant to NJ TRANSIT to transform the historic Brick Church station in East Orange into a modern, fully accessible station that preserves historic features and improves the customer experience. Highlights include replacing the current low-level platforms with accessible high-level platforms and adding elevators."

https://www.njtransit.com/press-releases/nj-transit-receives-83-million-grant-fta-brick-church-station-modernization

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

RT @aarmlovich Decommodification--ditching the price system in favor of a lottery, waitlist, or other rationing--can be done, but urban housing scarcity is a physical fact

It is possible to turn high prices into 20-year waitlists, for example, but it will not fit 100 families into 90 homes

capntransit, 12 days ago to random

RT @openplans NYC's "roadway dining structures...occupy parking spaces or other parts of the street." Does outdoor dining occupy "parking spaces"? Or does free curbside parking actually occupy public space, homogenizing & clogging a useful & potentially versatile piece of our streets?

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-summer-is-the-end-of-outdoor-dining-in-nyc-as-we-know-it

capntransit, 12 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 28, 2010: We do not make just one mode choice. We make mode choices repeatedly, of at least three kinds: Single Trips, Habits and Investments. We're not going to get people out of cars by addressing only one kind of choice.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2010/05/mode-choices.html

capntransit, 14 days ago to random

New blog post: There's an approach to climate change that focuses on "Making Polluters Pay" for the cost of carbon pollution. But who counts as a polluter? Why are they so insistent that it's just a handful of corporations?

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2024/05/making-all-polluters-pay.html

capntransit, 14 days ago to random

RT @streetfilms Wow! Just got a nice note from an urban planner who was very angry more people haven't watched our Paris School Streets Streetfilms! She called it "the most important educational tool made for urbanists in the last 5 years."

Thanks. I agree. So watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPzocuqKPc

capntransit, 15 days ago to random

RT @regionalplan We heard today is someone's birthday!

The Brooklyn Bridge opened 141 years ago today. We found some old-school bridge crossing photos in our archives, circa 1980s. #Happy141BKBridge

Five people walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, wearing 80s-style office and business casual clothes. One man is carrying a briefcase. In the background the Bell switching tower can be seen with its marble cladding and AT&T logo, and the World Trade Center.
Two women walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, in a section that is higher than the rest of the pedestrian deck. It is lined with chain-link fence. The women are wearing 80s-style office clothes with skirts below the knee, and holding a large tote bag between them by the handles. In the background the World Trade Center and the Woolworth Building can be seen. Two men in suits are climbing the stairs to the elevated walkway.

capntransit, 15 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 25, 2011: Whenever I hear people claim that Uber and Lyft "destroyed" New York City's taxi system, my mind boggles at how completely ignorant or how deep in denial they must be. This post was part of a series where I described how fantastically shitty the taxi system was in 2011:

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-yellow-cabs-in-practice.html

capntransit, 16 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc Only in Streetsblog: @ndhapple is back in print — and with a banger of a story about how late LIRR trains turn thousands of commuters into sprinters to catch their connections at Jamaica: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/24/late-island-rail-road-lirr-on-time-stats-obscure-rider-fury-at-thousands-of-blown-connections

capntransit, 17 days ago to random

In Paris, the transit authority reconfigured its train shops and built apartments on the land freed up. It's now renting them out to its bus drivers, a 936 square foot apartment with a balcony for about $900 a month.

In New York the MTA provides parking for employees who drive in from the suburbs.

https://www.leparisien.fr/immobilier/un-appartement-de-87m2-avec-terrasse-pour-833-euros-a-paris-la-ratp-loge-ses-salaries-a-des-prix-imbattables-23-05-2024-LHMP6Q4XCJFMPCZMZYVI4F6MDM.php

capntransit, 17 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc The NYPD is still writing 92 percent of its tickets for "jaywalking" to Blacks and Latinos.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/22/on-the-bias-nypds-walking-while-black-ticketing-continues

capntransit, 18 days ago to random

RT @humantransit The cool kids are all trying to sell us battery-electric buses, whose limitations of range could lead to service cuts. Don't forget: trolleybuses are a proven technology that has worked well for decades. Are the wires really so horrible?

https://humantransit.org/2009/08/vienna-do-the-wires-ruin-it.html

capntransit, 18 days ago to random

RT @streetsblogkea Cute thing someone just sent me: a version of Frogger without the cars. The frog just...crosses the street without incident, then chats with random characters about how much they love sustainable cities + collects points to ride a bullet train. https://woe-industries.itch.io/frogger-walkable-city

capntransit, 19 days ago to random

RT @mnolangray: Daycares in the US should enjoy RLUIPA-tier protections. Like it should be nearly impossible to prohibit them unless there's an imminent health and safety threat.

capntransit, 19 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 21, 2008, when the US government spent $100 million a year on "Essential Air Service," subsidizing flights to tiny airports in the middle of nowhere. It's now almost $400 million a year.

In New York State the airports served now are Watertown, Massena and Saranac Lake. We could probably save a lot of money by restoring passenger service on the train lines that used to serve those towns!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2008/05/essential-service.html

capntransit, 20 days ago to random

RT @schwartztalya Call in tomorrow, May 21st at 9:00am, to the NJTA commissioners meeting and tell them to cancel their miserable highway expansion project. Dial 1-800-346-7359, Entry Code: 487219.

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/us-coast-guard-will-likely-ok-controversial-nj-turnpike-extension-bridge.html?gift=f8bfcbdd-efc6-41bc-95d7-45d9581c4715

capntransit, 21 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 19, 2013: Every time there's an outage on the Northeast Corridor I point out that there's a parallel train line that we could restore. The right-of-way is all still publicly owned.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2013/05/we-cant-depend-on-northeast-corridor.html