Maddening trip with @mtalirr.bsky.social this evening. Our train lost 5 minutes in 4 stations simply because the conductor was never in position to operate the doors at stations, too busy collecting tickets like it’s 1895. Every aspect of this railroad’s operation is sloppy and insulting to riders.

It's hard to believe that this is the absolute ceiling of what liberals can achieve. And yet I don't think they will do even one of these things

If the UK can do it...

I look forward to the extremely rational and sane emails and reviews we're going to get in response to my reading of Trump's threatening post to air traffic controllers.

What the hell is “NEW TERMINAL 9” at JFK? The PANYNJ capital plan summary lists $1.8 billion for work on a new terminal 9 that I have never heard of or seen in any plans. Where would it even go? And $1+ billion for the JFK AirTrain fleet expansion and station overhaul How the hell?!

PANYNJ's 2026-2035 capital plan is being announced. Here's an airport by airport breakdown: There's finally have a path to double JFK AirTrain capacity with "new state-of-the-art train cars" that Cuomo announced half a decade ago but were never actually ordered.

NJT authorized nearly a billion dollars to overhaul and modernize its multilevel 1 (2006-2009) & 2 (2012-2013) fleet through the mid-2030s. NJT catches a lot of shit (deservingly), but this is one area its running circles around MTA. The LIRR/MNR M7 fleet is even older with no modernization plan.

This is the most Canadian "man hijacks bus" story ever. He contined to make stops and enforced the fare, and when police caught up to him they deescalated the situation and didn't identify the guy because “there could be a mental health component..."

Well, that’s that, I guess. Now the FAA will get back to its regular critically low levels of ATC staffing, down from its dangerously critical low levels of ATC staffing during the shutdown.

BREAKING: DOT and FAA freeze U.S. scheduled flight capacity cuts at 6% citing "a rapid decline in controller callouts." "Such strong staffing levels suggest a further ramp up in-flight reductions are not necessary to keep the traveling public safe." Revised order: www.faa.gov/newsroom/Eme...

You know those malfunctioning LED signs in the window of your local bodega? Now make it the top of a 51-story tower.

🥳 “Seven years ago, left-leaning politicians opposed a plan that would have given incentives to Amazon to build a headquarters in the same neighborhood. The new plan, with its focus on housing and community amenities instead of huge public subsidies for a wealthy company like Amazon…”

Big news for hardcore #AvGeek Alaska/Hawaiian flyers: Trading cards! As an interesting twist, AS/HA will also launch digital cards for 66 Hawaiian Airlines aircraft, with unique designs inspired by the name given to each aircraft. Aircraft have an NFC tag at the boarding door to tap.

United has been really inconsistent about its Trump Flight Cancellations. Look no farther than the #CursedRoute, where there has been a different combination of cancellations every day this week.

We’re less than two months away from @mta.info ending MetroCard sales. Meanwhile, at Jamaica…PANYNJ only has two JFK AirTrain OMNY tap-in readers going (out of four installed?) and there’s actually quite a backup for those lanes. Will PANYNJ just keep selling MetroCard as a rogue entity in 2026?

Ah, screw it. I’m going to give the 60 second unpublished “transfer opportunity” at Jamaica a shot. I’m counting on the Brooklyn Shuttle running on time, and the Far Rockaway train being slightly late. And the journey starts with this 40 year old M3 🫤

A 100 minute LIRR trip from Brooklyn to just over the Nassau border? On a weekday morning? How?! There’s a 57 minute pause in Brooklyn service weekday mornings. Naturally, the first train after the pause is scheduled to misconnect to a Far Rockaway train, so it gives a 58 minute wait at Jamaica…

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) has introduced a bill in the U.S. House which would "prohibit the restriction of commercial flights before the restriction of private flights during a lapse in appropriations." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Most people reading this will only react “wtf is a mobile lounge and how does it crash?!”

Welcome back, @digg. Good to see you haven't changed a bit.

Obviously the ridership and network size is orders of magnitude smaller, but it's wild that NYC Ferry announced a network redesign in July, finalize it in November, and launch the changes in December. Meanwhile, @mta.info started the Brooklyn bus redesign in 2019 and there still isn't a final plan.

I tracked American's HND-JFK premium economy to business upgrade offer every day for 4+ months. Highest offer: $3,735 Lowest offer: $642 Average daily change: -$8 Highest spike: $1,105 Highest drop: -$1,573 I don't know what data drive these changes, but I saved $3,093 over the highest offer 💸

Threatening air traffic controllers (who have been working forced overtime for many years) with pay penalties and antagonizing them to quit when there's already a severe staffing shortage with a years long training gap after floating the possibility of not providing backpay during the shutdown...

Today we're unveiling our eighth locomotive in Metro-North’s Heritage Series—a moving tribute to our nation’s veterans. Created and designed by Metro-North veterans, this locomotive embodies gratitude to those who have worn the uniform, both within the Metro-North family and across the country.

FAA says ‘NO SOUP FOR YOU’ part 91 operators!

I’m still baffled by how terrible the new live boarding pass situation is, and overall some real weirdness with United’s typically stellar app. But come along for a ride on a retro United 737-800!

I passed a B110 stop while on the B62 (which frustratingly stops across the intersection and does not have a shelter) and wow look at that ridership!

The #CursedRoute is now taking a 75% hit starting Tuesday. The schedule has IAD-LGA operating the 10:12 pm Monday flight and the E175 sits at LGA until 2:55p Tuesday. Never thought this route could be even more cursed than usual, but United found a way.

This shot was such lucky timing

FAA operations center:

The FAA has just issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive for MD-11 aircraft requiring aircraft inspections and any applicable corrective actions before further flight.

Took the B39 bus over the Williamsburg Bridge for the first time and was rewarded with the @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social R32 excursion train on the other side 😍

That’s one way to keep a running pace

Checking in on my favorite Chinatown bodega cat, Mimi! If she’s not out of the store doing cat things, she always comes to greet me.

It’s a sleepy Saturday morning and JFK is currently in SWAP, a “severe rather avoidance plan.” It’s causing major departure delays. But there’s no severe weather (or any weather of any significance) on the east coast right now 🤔

This guy is my landlord. I wonder if I can squeeze “hahaha Mamdani won but you’re never leaving NYC” in the check’s memo field.

Quality Train Content™ from LIRR Jamaica, where a freight trail is slowly rumbling down the bypass track.

On this week’s AvTalk: what we know about the crash of UPS flight 2976 so far, the US’ move to limit flights at major airports, and a Brazilian lawmaker’s proposal to eliminate bag and seat fees. www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

How about some good Boeing news? Kazakhstan's Air Astana has committed to order up to 15 787-9, growing its fleet to 18 if all are delivered. Meanwhile, Tajikistan's Somon Air also committed to order up to 4 787 and and 10 737 MAX 8.

The Trump Flight Cancelations will continue until morale improves

United starting to post its Trump Flight Cancelations for Friday and the #CursedRoute is taking a 50% hit. “Your flight is canceled due to FAA-mandated airspace restrictions during the government shutdown.“

Tomorrow would be a great day for @amtrak.com to press a bunch of its idling NextGen Acela fleet into service to boost Northeast Corridor trips and seats, but it has been 2+ months since service launched and Amtrak has said nothing about additional rollout plans.

No, we do not yet know which flights are cancelled due to the FAA's haphazardly (not at all?) planned 10% airspace reduction. So far, this is the messaging from every airline:

The NTSB shared this image of the recovered Cockpit voice recorder (left) and Flight data recorder (right) from UPS MD-11F N259UP, which crashed just after takeoff in Louisville on Tuesday.

British Airways is the latest airline to announce it’ll soon dump all of its existing Wi-Fi providers and transition its full mainline and Euroflyer fleet to Starlink beginning in 2026. BA never even finished its previous Wi-Fi rollouts; The entire 787-8 fleet and some 787-9 just never got it.

“Today, DEN submitted a request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asking whether airport revenue could be used to fund wage support for the air traffic controllers working at DEN.” Good move, Denver Airport 👏👏

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

We’re talking more than 5,000 flights here.