Working on some maps for a report that I hopefully will be sharing soon.

As written, this bill would effectively ban automated traffic enforcement, including red light and speed cameras. Not great!

Also of note, the bill will reduce the federal cost share of transit bus replacements from 80% oft the total cost of a bus to a maximum of 70% of the *average cost* of a new bus, based on a 5 year average of transit bus purchases to be calculated by the FTA, phasing in between FY2029 and 31.

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

Once again the Maryland State Senate has adjourned sine die without a third reader vote for the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act, which has passed in the House of Delegates three years in a row. Disappointing that Senate leadership has repeatedly failed to bring this bill to a floor vote.

Once again the Maryland State Senate has adjourned sine die without a third reader vote for the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act, which has passed in the House of Delegates three years in a row. Disappointing that Senate leadership has repeatedly failed to bring this bill to a floor vote.

That's all folks

The final DC Streetcar

The last ride of the DC Streetcar

The MTA's own modeling shows bus rapid transit both attracts significantly fewer riders and requires 3-4 minute headways to meet capacity needs. "Red Line" BRT is not the Red Line at all. This corridor both justifies and deserves the rail it has long been promised.

An update on this: it seems that this was likely a placeholder in the draft of the CTP, MTA is now procuring 5 battery-catenary hybrid locomotives in a joint procurement agreement with the MBTA.

It boots!

New transit oddity in my possession: a bus fare reader retired from an Austin CapMetro bus.

The fact that I'm able to board a Metrorail train at 1:45 in the morning rules so much

Once again, opposing housing near you is a fundamentally conservative proposition, and a lot of people on the broader left who share the thoughts in this video need to take some inventory of themselves.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Once again.

LA Metro having the single most ambitious transit expansion plans in the United States while simultaneously opposing transit-oriented development at their stations truly is peak Californian governance

In the final draft of the Maryland Consolidated Transportation Program FY2026-2031 budget, there is now a line item for the purchase of ACS-64 electric locomotives for the MARC Penn Line. This will enable much faster electrified service on MARC's busiest rail line.

Baltimore, Charles St and North Ave

The suburban transit experience: try to book a microtransit trip, it fails to book twice give up and walk 20 minutes to an hourly bus bus isn't tracking bus shows up 3 minutes early

New Baltimore Metro railcars are in service!

Meant to post this last night but my first transit ride of 2026. This year marks what will likely be the last year of service for the aging Budd cars on the Baltimore Metro, as new Hitachi railcars enter service hopefully in the coming weeks.

The Bay Bridge should not be rebuilt, full stop. At the upper range of $17bn, the new bridges would be the most expensive built in *human history.* There is zero need for 8 lanes across the Chesapeake, just maintain the spans we have. Mindboggling that the MDTA approved this.

Local lawmakers need to begin work on a congestion pricing zone and VMT tax for AVs, these things are going to choke our streets and tank transit ridership if we aren't careful.

Baltimore being #3 and BWI being #6 really speaks volumes for the necessity of the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan, faster and more frequent electrified service will be a game changer.

Five billion dollars for a fairly unremarkable 4 lane cable-stayed highway bridge. It's not just transit projects, this country is incapable of building any modern infrastructure.

Ridiculous and cowardly move. The risks of *not* aggressively pursuing redistricting are so much higher than the "risk" of legal challenges against it, as more and more republican states redraw their maps.

Attention: for all you housing lovers along the Northeast Corridor - Baltimore’s City Council just passed single-stair reform AND repealed residential parking minimums AND reduced setback requirements one-after-another this evening

The 31 Av bike boulevard in Astoria, this city is genuinely incredible

The 14th Street busway at Union Square in New York, this could be Baltimore Street if we were brave enough.

The Rockaways

The northeast is the single greatest region in the world, I left home at 6:45 AM and 5 hours later I am in Flushing Queens after taking a high speed train and an express subway line

Good morning from the Amtrak NextGen Acela, my first ride on the new trainsets.

Sketched out the 1968 Baltimore Region Rapid Transit System plan in Subway Builder. The game simulates about 122,000 daily riders on the system's five lines and 62 stations.

Trying to take transit in Baltimore City on a Saturday evening is so painful, Navy and 65 don't show, nothing is tracking.

MDOT MTA's request for proposals for new 70% low floor LRVs for the Central Light Rail line is out. The base order includes 52 LRVs, with options for up to 50 additional LRVs for the Baltimore Red Line project.

In spite of a tough state budget year, today's MTA Maryland service changes modestly expand transit service in the Baltimore region. This is in stark constrast to the 20% SEPTA service cuts which went into effect in Philadelphia today. The public transit death spiral is an avoidable policy choice.

Nova LFS articulated on the 70?

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

A 56 year old GP39H-2, originally built in for the B&O in 1969, still in active service on the MARC Penn Line.

That would be neat if it worked particularly well at all. Unfortunately for everyone, most of all Jacksonville, the "Ultimate Urban Circulator" doesn't. Here's my experience of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority's NAVI "autonomous" shuttle system: medium.com/@marcuscnels...

Truly incredible how the more I read about this godawful bill the worse it gets, these idiots triggered $500bn/10y in statutory PAYGO cuts to Medicare by blowing up the deficit. Quite literally one of the worst bills of all time.

@mta.maryland.gov released the MARC Growth and Transportation plan to chart the next 25 years of our state's commuter rail service. You can read the plan here: tinyurl.com/bdf46n75 Here’s what it would mean for the three commuter rail lines, including the Brunswick Line that serves Montgomery Cnty

Between the MARC Growth and Transformation Plan, BMORE BUS, and the Red Line, MTA has attainable plans which will transform transit across Maryland. It's now up to the General Assembly to put their money where their mouth is and fund the transformative investments Maryland needs.

Zohran Mamdani folks

Why is Virginia like this

every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried

MARAD's inventory of oceangoing US-flagged merchant ships contains a grand total of 185 total ships, only 92 of which are Jones Act compliant. This bill is a complete disaster and will massively increase US infrastructure costs to prop up a near-dead shipbuilding and shipping industry.