Broke: Manhattanhenge Woke: Buswayhenge

He’s able to do so much so quickly because NYC has a large and well-funded bureaucracy. A lot of what he is doing, like a fast rollout of busways and bike lanes, are things people in the bureaucracy have wanted to do for years but kept being held back by the indecision of their political principals.

Manhattanhenge + vintage planes

OCTA's draft Long Range Transportation Plan wants 2024 Metrolink service levels (<hourly) *in 2050* - ignoring Metrolink's service development plan which calls for hourly OCL service by 2029 and half-hourly by 2037, and the State Rail Plan which expects 15 minutes by 2050. OCTA is a rogue agency.

Another mayor, another plan for bus action. The difference this time? The MTA has signed on as a partner and has made its own commitments to help speed up buses nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/08/t...

“The MTA said it would allow passengers to board through rear bus doors by 2027” it’s happening

I didn't know they renamed South Ferry

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Private limo car on the 3 past Chambers!

Yet another societal benefit of congestion pricing: Better emergency care New paper credits NYC's congestion pricing program for a 5-6 percent reduction in emergency response travel time. www.nber.org/system/files...

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Planes and ships

It's fascinating to see the spread between different tram networks' terminal layover allocations. Layover times are a major driver of reliability, especially on higher-variability transit services. But they're also a product of infrastructure!

That storm was worth the resulting sky

A celebration in Trump's DC vs a celebration in Mamdani's NYC

Happy Pride from Northeast Regional 67

Until next time, Boston!

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Obligatory PCC ride

Wise words from an 01700

Greatly enjoying how this fire call box was so elegantly fit in at North Quincy

Miles in Transit concert :)

Park Street is woke now

Mayor Mamdani took the mayor's Inaugural Swim in east Harlem this morning to open the city's pool season. (Look out for sea hags, Zohran!) Naturally, he wore his swimsuit.

Mets (they lost)

We’ve had quite a few requests for the maps from our primary election livestream coverage last night, created by the genius minds over at Partner & Partners, so here they are. Enjoy!

I continue to think that Mamdani’s inability to stop smiling really takes the sting out of this stuff “this man is destroying the country!” *smash cut to an extremely happy-looking Mamdani smiling like a dork* everyone else in this one looks quite nice too

1 Centre Street views this morning

Fascinating idea to use the highway loop in the basement of the Empire State Plaza to be Albany's new intercity bus terminal. I am intrigued. capitalcityterminal.com

Very patriotic 9 train

That's fine I just didn't know it would be Norwegian

Hallelujah

Never ever thought I'd say thank goodness to be in New Haven

Lesson learned: don't try and stay at the Big Apple Motel in Waterbury, CT. Never had a place with such a sense of fear as this

the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.

behold: the dumbest thing I own, finally fully operational

Heritage livery CT Transit bus!

Engineer of my train was cleaning the front window prior to departure?

Can't beat parade views watching from an office in Lower Manhattan

A festive train for today's celebration

K train returns again for the Knicks parade!

Here's a New York city councilmember threatening to get a bunch of grad students in trouble with the university administration because he doesn't like the recommendations in their research project. Wildly inappropriate IMO and CUNY should tell him to pound sand.

This is one of last fall's studio projects in my graduate program at Hunter. Laughable that Phil thinks Hunter's progressive urban planning program will back down from these kinds of projects

now more than ever

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

KNICKS IN FIVE! Congratulations, New York Knicks 🏆

Imagine watching the Spurs lose in person and then you have to DRIVE home and you still live in Texas

Absolute joy right now

HISTORY.

THE KNICKS