Fox News was on at the gym over the weekend and the chyron said "WOKE MAPPING" to refer to gerrymandering and honestly I've gotta hand it to them, it's been rattling around in my head like Beat It for 48 hours.

First step to becoming an Olympian: drunk driving. Check.

Not sure why I was a hoping for a chill Chicago ayatollah who likes the White Sox

We've posted the slides and a printer-friendly version of our subway expansion report, A Better Billion! Slides: transitcosts.com/ABB_Presenta... Printer-friendly PDF: transitcosts.com/A_Better_Bil... NYT write-up: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n... The OG interactive: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

"When this is built, I want New Yorkers to take it for granted” Thank you to @thecity.nyc @amysohn.bsky.social and Harry Siegel for having my on the podcast to discuss QueensLink! www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/07/q...

They flattened out the QBL loop through Astoria I see.

Whoever did this should be kicked out of office. boston.legistar.com/LegislationD...

The RPA is never beating the "money laundering operation" charges.

Shout out to the anonymous artist who finally filled in this half assed attempt by the MTA to "fix" this mosaic tile sign.

Anyways…The Better Billion talk tonight about unlocking housing and better transit by expanding the NYC subway was fascinating! If only we could find that kind of money from somewhere… @ndhapple.bsky.social @27a01.bsky.social @egoldwyn.bsky.social @alonlevy.bsky.social @vanshnookenraggen.com

Thank you AM Rajkumar. qns.com/2026/03/rajk...

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My pet peeve is how at Union Sq, the L train just dumps riders at the southern end of the NQRW platform and how crowded the platform gets with people trying to move. I'm shocked more people aren't hit by trains here. There are passages that were built to fix this, but closed in the 80s.

Join us at the Ridgewood Democratic Club on March 10th, 7pm, at 60-70 Putnam Ave to discuss the QueensLink vision! Hope to see you there! 🚉🌳

We are talking A Better Billion at NYU Marron next week. Housing + Subway Expansion is catnip for New Yorkers. Definite cameos from @27a01.bsky.social, @vanshnookenraggen.com, @eensari.bsky.social, and @ndhapple.bsky.social. We will have food and beverages. Please join us! luma.com/ub7q20a6

A BETTER BILLION, AMA: This is the latest report from the Transit Costs Project. It sought to take all the work we've done on subway construction and push it forward into a vision of what could/should be possible in NYC with a steady source of funding -- transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

I think there are a few practical reasons why American cities should start building new elevated trains, but also just because the old Els in Manhattan inspired a lot of cool art. Ralston Crawford Third Avenue Elevated #4 1952

DOING GOD'S WORK

Oh lord, the free bus discourse is getting dumber. Express buses already have a freakishly high subsidy. Making them free won't make them better or faster. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/20/e...

Happy our project is getting some local news love. @egoldwyn.bsky.social @ndhapple.bsky.social @27a01.bsky.social ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’ www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/18/b...

Saw a crackhead at the gym working out in jeans, then I realized it was RFK Jr.

The G train has been making waves recently, but let's not forget the BEST solution: Building QueensLink!! If we #BuildtheQueensLink the MTA can extend the G train ALL TIMES!! That's TWO extensions for the price of ONE! 🚉🌳

The Buffalo Bills don't deserve to win the Super Bowl until NFTA is extended to Orchard Park.

Do it. He'll be dead by the time it's open and we'll just change it back.

Punchbowl reports Trump will release Gateway funds if Schumer agrees to rename Dulles and Penn Station for Trump. punchbowl.news/article/whit...

Telling that none of the “why not both?” crowd responding to TCP’s A Better Billion are donating their time as transit advocates (or making income sacrifices to work for nonprofits or the government). The people actually doing the work are telling you they don’t think we can get the money for both.

I guess we are going to need to create a new Guardian Angels to patrol dog owners who don't clean up after their animals.

What it comes down to for me is that everyone I know who works in transit thinks free buses are a bad idea, while everyone who doesn't work in transit thinks it's a good idea. So it sounds good if you don't think critically about it, which is good for a campaign and bad for real policy.

I think it’s bad that the left has lately been treating material conditions as synonymous prices, alone. There are many other, often more impactful ways, to improve people’s material conditions beyond price reductions.

A greatly expended rapid transit system across New York City is a key component in tackling our city's affordability issues.

The optimal solution is the one that allows me to win fights online

The report, and my piece, don't even get into the mechanism that could really tie this vision together: value capture financing. Build the subways, pay for them with the value uplift of nearby upzoned properties, let developers build a ton of housing, repeat.

Citylab and @benschneider.bsky.social covered A Better Billion, too. They also had the wisdom to include the killer gif @27a01.bsky.social made showing how the system expands over time. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

never fails to amaze that the conspiratorial right correctly deduced that the nation was being run by a secret cabal of elite pedophiles, were so justifiably horrified that they marshaled their forces to topple the institutions of power, and then voted for the pedophiles three times in a row.

I am now off the clock, so I am officially, formally, incredibly thrilled that 'A Better Billion' is now in the world. And it's absolutely surreal to help with something that ends up with a feature in The New York Times. -- transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

It’s totally true that free buses isn’t a good policy and those funds would be better spent on improving services

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Michael Scott apnews.com/article/luig...

I swear to God that being a conservative should be listed in the DSM-5.

Together, we must defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism.

Men will literally fly 10,000 miles to make empty performative statements rather than go to therapy.

Complain all you like, but the refs didn't cost the Bills that game. The hard truth is that they were a fundamentally weaker team this year, especially on the O Line. But they kept rolling the dice cuz they thought Allen would save them. Protect Allen and give him weapons, that's how you win.

Complain all you like, but the refs didn't cost the Bills that game. The hard truth is that they were a fundamentally weaker team this year, especially on the O Line. But they kept rolling the dice cuz they thought Allen would save them. Protect Allen and give him weapons, that's how you win.

“If they say that they're a Leo, I go, ‘Great,’” he said. “‘I can't wait to rent to you. You're your own boss. I don't have to do nothing. You'll change every light bulb. You'll never call us.’” Can 100% confirm. laist.com/news/housing...

In our time of darkness, at least there is one flash of light. apnews.com/article/kath...

It seems clearer by the day that a new constitutional convention is needed when this is done.