@benjaminkabak.com time to start hating this damn team again

One of North America's quirkier modes of transit is the Oregon City Municipal Elevator! How can you not love the space age design of this thing? youtu.be/ujtG093d4RY

Wow Signal

Found this insane map underneath the 7 at Court Square last night

The Whimsy Governance Board has issued its first finding, on the matter of fake orphan sources: whimsygov.org/dockets/26-0...

4 train to Sutter Av-Rutland Rd?!

270 Park my beloved

Today I learned my last name is shared with a coffee shop in San Bruno? cafezorek.com

Got to see Joe Macken's handmade model of the city at the Museum of the City of New York today

The shithead who made these is the founder of the Buffalo Chronicle, a website that literally just makes stuff up

YIMBYs are seemingly getting more and more into transit policy. Thread on how the politics and strategy of transit is and isn't similar to the housing world:🧵

See, this is why my friends and I have established a Whimsy Governance Board. Making people fear they have an orphan source event on their hands: not whimsical.

John Pegram got the Jacobs engineering winning technical proposal for the IBX. This is a really fascinating look at just how much work the MTA and its contractor will need to do on the ROW. Which is, a lot. They’re turning into a trench — bqrail.substack.com/p/interborou...

This technology already exists and is widely used. It doesn't involve 'government surveillance' and would not allow ICE or any other government agency to stop individual cars. Just say you think thousands of kids dying every year is worth it so you can speed! www.autoweek.com/news/a615322...

Late Traveler, 1930, by Martin Lewis.

#BlackHistoryMonth: 🥇 #DidYouKnow that one of the first Black bus operators in #NYC was also an Olympic gold medalist? Edward “Ed” Lansing Gordon began working for the New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1942, driving routes along Eighth Avenue and Lexington Avenue.

Something's not quite right here

It's snowing?!

Tish James announces NY/NJ have won a TRO preventing Trump from shutting down the Gateway project. Details TK.

I love that SkyTrain is the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company. It sounds like something from 1907 incorporated to build a subway line, not a world-first automated rapid transit system

If anyone's missing their Keurig it's on the uptown 6 platform at 86th Street

If anyone's missing their sound system, I found it on the uptown platform of 68th Street-Hunter College

Yeah sure

free dril

Also in Playbook: Council Speaker Julie Menin will announce at today's ABNY breakfast that the Council will make the Big Apple's outdoor dining program year-round again. Menin's team says the most likely path is passing @cmrestler.bsky.social's 2025 bill. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The "cost" to New Jerseyans: less traffic www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

3 and a 4

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

The modernist future of downtown Jamaica, circa 1970

Holy track quality

ha this is wild. Manhattan congestion pricing actually reduced traffic more *outside* of the toll zone than inside it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

I got the special awesome sticker you get for being special and awesome

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Drip or drown

This is Brad Lander doing pulltabs in the Uptown VFW. He’s one of us now

Steam igloo

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It has been so cold for so long that the Hudson River is frozen. www.portnywebcam.com

What if I made the critical preservation of pumpernickel bagels my entire personality www.grubstreet.com/article/why-...

STraffic gates: better than Cubic, worse than Conduent. Seems like they're a bit buggy especially with the reader integration, but their issues seem more fixable than the Cubic gates

Never before have I seen such effective snow removal in this city

And this is why the MTA moves a bunch of trains underground in winter storms

The TTC subway cars this morning

Did anyone notice Zohran's jacket is using the "The City of New York" logo vs. the Bloomberg-era chunky NYC one?

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don't do anything that will cause the accident investigation narrator to start narrating @wtyppod.bsky.social