This looks like shit, eh? @interurbanera.bsky.social

Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit. Research suggests that free transit: a—increases ridership b—doesn't get people out of cars c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl d—doesn't add employment e—maybe ups operational efficiency

I'm pouring through the UP-NS merger application, will post interesting finds here

Looks like WMATA is looking to begin detailed service simulation in HASTUS, according to this procurement for network modeling services

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

A4873 is dead. A very good afternoon to Kathy Hochul.

Not to reopen speed camera discourse again, but here's yet another study finding that these cameras create significant safety benefits. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Okay yes, I *am* reopening this discourse, because I will fight anyone in defense of automated traffic enforcement.)

Still no movement on A4873 😬

Every agency should be doing this. Looking at you, New York City Transit.

Starting service at 8am on Christmas is inexcusable. Even more inexcusable is that this is BART's regular Sunday schedule.

Searching "CBTC" on here and it is remarkable how few people there are that actually talk about CBTC, and even fewer that seemingly have actual knowledge of how these systems work

We should talk about the milkshake duck like a sinister boogeyman that you summon when you compliment someone you don’t know anything about on social media.

Fantastic piece by @chittimarco.bsky.social, as always

Stadler is missing out on a great opportunity for total vertical integration by naming their CBTC product "Protection" to complement their "FLIRT" and "KISS" lineups

“I want my CBTC” -Mark Knopfler

It's interesting that there seems to be little desire in traditional rapid transit foamer/railfan circles to understand CBTC in the same way they understand traditional signalling systems. CBTC info isn't super accessible to the public, but I feel like there's more to it than that.

Some digging in to the Muni Metro resignalling project and discussion:

Some good fucking news

Chuck Marohn once again proving he's actually not very smart

Becoming increasingly convinced that not building new urban rail lines with linear induction tech is a dereliction of our obligations to the taxpayers, the earth, and all that is good.

Something which we should have realized earlier on is becoming increasingly clear: this meme actually describes how Toronto's Transit City plan came to be.

Again and again, Adrienne Adams is a coward

It is absolutely shameful that MTA chose to throw out one of New York's most persisting and iconic symbols and replace it with...nothing

we're going to elect progressive numbers fucksteins to every level of government and there is nothing you can do to stop us.

going to borrow a term from a friend and say that we need to do something about the "transit nerd boys" who run around the marketplace of ideas and sink the good ones ideas by being unprincipled jerks. there are plenty of ways to argue for a good thing without a) lying about it and b) being a dick

She's gotta veto this nonsense.

Some people who work on the railroad have an embarrassingly flawed understand of how a railroad works. We should, whenever possible, reduce human factors and sub in deterministic systems.

do you think they explore each other's bodies?

man's ability to continuously fall for the arguments of stupid people while thinking he is smart is a modern wonder

My car equipment told me curves keep eating his wheels so I asked how many wheels he has and he said he just goes to the US Steel and gets new wheels afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding wheels to curves and then his maintenance of way started crying.

Jay Jones winning means we have not successfully bracketed in what a Democratic politician can say about Republicans

Newsom’s speech was juiceless tonight. He should have gone in front of the cameras and said “I’m going to kill the president, goodnight.“ SAD!

Turnout tonight was 733 9/11s. New York has fallen. and mamdami is celebrating it. Seven hundred thirty three nine elevens.

god is dead. baseball.

I find myself annoyed at an organization for communicating the magnitude of a minor success in a dishonest way while failing to communicate much of the real success happening behind the scenes. This isn't how we build trust in government, and certainly not how we reward good work within govt. Sigh.

Are the No Kings protests Biden’s Katrina?

Seeing some really gigabrained takes today. Even if you think we ought to be partying and screaming from the rooftops, most people don't, and Zohran actually wants to win because he isn't a LARPer.

Metra: continuous internal agitation for a better system that meets the current and future needs of Chicagoans CTA: imagine a burger that cooks passengers alive and is impossible to clean

About to ride the Lake Shore Limited

$200 labor $100 diesel $10,000,000 nose cones $100,000,000 interest $70 ubers Someone who understands the economy please help me my railroad is dying

I can think of something else that might have been most New Yorkers’ first EV ride…

“Urbanism” update: imagine a burger

Why cook the Big Mac books when you can cause the Big Mac precursor crops to fail? Your move, Moreno.

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

"i think cars should be limited to the speed limit" "oh so you think AMBULANCES, and FIRETRUCKS should be limited to the speed limit? what if there's an EMERGENCY you FREAK" no bitch that's a different sentence, etc.

speed limiters already exist on vehicles and arent used this way dumbass all we would have to do is make it so assholes cant drive their corvette thru a school zone at 60mph plus have you been in a city during a protest? people are going like 5mph top not 15 lmao most city roads should be <25mph

Why cook the Big Mac books when you can cause the Big Mac precursor crops to fail? Your move, Moreno.

Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.