Breaking, from me: Sources show that the Interborough Express (IBX) rail line will be operated by MTA Regional Bus, a little known MTA operating agency. This comes amid speculation about operation of the line, whether it will be contracted, and what crewing will look like.

Streetsblog Empire posting a piece that makes a lot of easily discredited claims about the Newburgh Beacon ferry and bus service is disappointing. The new bus is a huge improvement over the ferry, in terms of both departures and service span

People making faces at Melania documentary ads on the Outfront screens in midtown, lol

Cubic Systems of San Diego has received an award from the Civic Software Institute for their monumental achievements with Clipper 2, including being the first fare system to use a single JSON file as a database. Congratulations to everyone at MTC and Cubic on this achievement!

If you preach specifically at queer people at Penn Station you are allowed to be thrown onto 21 track

NJT and Amtrak cancelling everything over a foot or two of snow is really pathetic and unacceptable. The LIRR is still pumping out trains without problems.

The Flushing & Workzone Railroad

"Urbanist" as a LinkedIn headline just means "unemployed consultant" right?

I’d like a word with whoever put a work zone on the entirety of the flushing line in queens.

Hopefully Deutschreichbahn is hiring in 2 years so Andy Byford can get a job

Andy Byford seems like a slimy, unscrupulous, opportunistic motherfucker.

NYT: someone died after a gun was involved in a federal agent situation in Minnesota FT:

Convinced BART's LinkedIn presence is just ragebait

From trying and observing all the pilot fare gates so far, here's my ranking: 1. Conduent 2. STraffic 3. No build - current turnstiles 4. No turnstiles 5. Heat death of the universe 7. Cubic

You know you’re cooking when the scheming switches from Teams to Signal

Arresting your server is the definition of ho scaring behavior. I know these guys are all the most divorced guys of all time, but fellas are you even trying?

The post calling Mamdani “Zo” just makes him sound like a sweet little old man

The “I will invade you!” to “let me instead inflict economic damage unto myself” pipeli–oh, what’s that? It’s called being a “cow hard?”

“Real” Americans live in New York and board their Amtrak trains from the Exit Concourse.

CPUC: if a train were to enter a station at more than 36 mph, a passenger standing at the rear of the platform may experience unsafe acceleration of the head and neck trying to keep their eyes on the front train. This represents an unacceptable risk to safety. Additionally, train must ding.

“Alstom’s Thunder Bay facility” is almost as evil sounding as “Union Pacific’s Horseshoe Curve”

BREAKING from me: Governor Hochul announces plan to extend Second Avenue Subway train to Fort Lee, “the people of New Jersey have been waiting for this.”

It seems Mr Service Cuts does like service cuts

Who is Priya and why is she ruining my railroad!!

I wish I could make as compelling of a case for closed loop fare systems as open loop systems make themselves.

If you are going to make claims about things the government is doing wrong, at least do a second of research or critical thinking so you don't say something stupid.

Eric Adams has left the table of success without tipping

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