One day until my book is out! If you want a cute little guide of things to do in New York for every season, I got you!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/roug...

Happy National Train Day! Celebrate with us by taking a trip on public transit today 🚇🚉

The Canvas outage is fun because it’s simultaneously widespread and confined to members of a specific (large) community.

I didn’t even know double-sided tape measures were a thing. The Stanley tape measure I have at home (I don’t know where it was made) isn’t. (It’s a newer model, not like the chrome ones I grew up with, which were certainly made in Connecticut and which my parents still use after 40 or 50 years.)

Vendor whose marketing emails I inexplicably never unsubscribed from: “Come visit us at this event in New York! It’s always a great time to visit New York!”

The whole conspiracy is going to be blown open!

Hoisting this from the discussion. In the 2000s and 2010s there was quite a lot of academic debate around the concept of "urban planning culture" in Europe, as a reflection emerging from the process of EU harmonization. This map is still quite simplistic, but it captures some broad commonalities.

It seems like this may be it for Spirit Airlines. Flights in the air now may be its last. You can laugh at this bottom tier airline, but a lot of people are about to be jobless. Pilots, cabin crew, mechanics, ground staff, and countless contractors who don’t even directly work for Spirit. It sucks.

specific request, for journalism: looking to talk to New Yorkers who got a local problem solved (OR NOT) through their House rep's office ... who's gone to their federal district office to try and get help? were you successful? would love to talk about it for a story. thank you!

Anyone here want to be in The Economist? I am looking for people who grew up in the suburbs of a big US city (Chicago, NYC, LA) but are now choosing to raise kids in the city

I just discovered a fantastic, well-organized, easy-to-navigate online version of 1963 Buchanan's "Traffic in Towns." Just wonderful. trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...

The IBX/TriBoro circa 1978

The Borough Hall rebuild is almost finished and has transformed this once bleak passage linking the 2/3 and 4/5 into something much better.

A boat is a hole in the water in which to throw money. A 277-foot boat built in the 1960s is a *very big* hole in the water to throw money. At a certain point, perhaps it’s a hole in the water in which to throw water.

People should really stop comparing the 4-year, 1933–1937 *build* time of the Golden Gate Bridge to the decades long *study-to-completion* timelines of modern projects. The Golden Gate Bridge took 19 years (1918–1937) by that metric!

Great thing of cities, nyc in particular: it's 8:45 pm, you forgot wine and an ingredient for dinner; no problem, just walk 2 minutes and you'll get them.

TFW you momentarily think about saying something and then remember that saying anything that could be perceived as criticism of niche internet microcelebrities is simply not worth it.

Very pleased with this photo of Astoria Boulevard station from January that I kept in the fridge for a few months. As usual, thanks to the dolls at Full Spectrum photo lab in Bushwick for the scans. #filmphotography #hasselbladxpan

Washington Metro @wmata.com board this morning unanimously approved the agency's $913 million plan to automate the Red Line, which will also include platform screen doors at 20 of 27 stations. Automation could come online by 2032 at the earliest. The plan needs federal funding support.

I am not an expert on bachelor parties, but rather baffled by the concept of one that involves taking a relatively early Acela from Stamford to Boston on a Thursday.

Seen outside Grand Central

wHy IsN't TrAnSiT SeLf-SuFfiCiEnT

Some good old fashioned infrastructure porn for a Monday morning. @stefanoschen.bsky.social goes inside the subway substations powering your rides. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have become the kind of person who really appreciates when a restaurant's interior is well-designed and well-kept. I feel like this is a somewhat socially unacceptable opinion, and one is only supposed to care about the food, but it makes a difference in the pleasantness of the experience!

There’s a weird kind of whiplash that comes from being a reasonably satisfied regular customer of a company and then out of the blue having such an inexplicably awful experience that you’ll almost certainly never buy anything from it again.

Nativism is one of my least favorite things, whether at a national or local level. And if you’d never rage against immigrants but will happily do so against “transplants,” you’re a hypocrite whose support for the former should be considered highly suspect at best.

*taps microphone*

Fun news: I wrote a book and it comes out in a month! It’s a New York guidebook with things to do categorized by seasons—gardens in spring, beaches in summer, etc. But I hope the recommendations feel fun and surprising for seasoned New Yorkers, too.

People on here really say the wildest stuff sometimes, just completely severed from any semblance of reality.

Re-upping my original post because the RFP for a vendor to redesign the MTA's website is still open! Responses will be accepted through May 6 via the MTA's Procurement portal. More info in the 🧵 and I can provide contact info for our procurement lead as well.

I'll Wait For You David Wilson 2025

Naturally it only took me a few hours in Tashkent to ride the metro and try to find one of the older trains

You know you’ve spent too much time on the West Coast, or at least around people from the West Coast, when you’re spooked by soft-story buildings in your friends’ travel photos from (very earthquake-prone) Florida.

Eating an apple that must have been stored (not by me) near onions, because it tastes like an onion.

I'm beyond thrilled to see Watermelon Truck in the @chicagotribune.com. Thanks @ninametz.bsky.social for highlighting this really special part of our collection. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/t...

The case exploded!

We’re turning 50 this year! 😱 What began as a temporary exhibition in 1976 became the largest museum in North America dedicated to mass transit—and a beloved cultural institution. Celebrate with us all year!

As manufacturing continues moving southwards and outwards from cities, it's fascinating to watch new clusters emerge. A good example: the string of 5 steel mills north of Memphis. They're low-profile and (relatively) low-employment--but are now the most significant group of plants outside of Chicago

A fun thing about this place is you occasionally come across a new crank who is so spitting mad for no discernible reason it’s almost hard to get mad at them.

For twenty years I've been asked about this. Here are my answers, for all to see. ggwash.org/view/102941/...

Some extremely exciting news (🧵): The MTA is looking for a vendor to redesign our website! Ours badly needs a refresh—I manage it, I'm allowed to say that—and my dream is for a site that's modern, accessible, user-friendly, and that incorporates our very iconic design and branding.

Today is Conrail day! 50 years on, I’d suggest we remember its least credited legacy: the Northeast Corridor. Without the region-wide network planning exercise that created Conrail, the NEC would still be full of freight—as it was until the 70s. Since Conrail, that feat has never been repeated.

The first Apple product I ever used (in school)…you were lucky if you got one with a color monitor! (I’m not sure what seems more absurd, that my local elementary schools were using them until about 1998 or that you could buy a new one just five years before that, almost a decade into the Mac era.)

The ribbon has been cut, which means the Crosslake Connection is officially here and trains are now in service! 🚊🎊 The party is just getting started. 🥳 Learn more about the new connection: www.soundtransit.org/crosslake #CrosslakeConnection #2Line #SoundTransit

It’s true this development would have never happened if the transit hadn’t come first, but it does present a bit of a dilemma: if you build the transit but don’t change the land use, you’re underutilizing the transit, but if you change the land use first, you’re likely underutilizing the land.

Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎 It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳

Love it when someone you’ve thought for years was a jerk and got argued with about says something stupid and people are like “Wow, this guy is kind of being a jerk!”

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Metro turns 50 tomorrow! Let's celebrate! ✨ Wrapped vehicles ✨ Limited-edition merch ✨ Commemorative Smart Trip cards (coming soon) Join us at Metro Center tomorrow with a DJ spinning & giveaways from 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. while supplies last. ➡️ wmata.com/about/news/M...

NEW RULING: The Whimsy Governance Board has ruled on Docket 26-003 "Menu prices in funny units" whimsygov.org/dockets/26-0...