Kiss of death

In Chicago they've been a nightmare. I've watched one block a sidewalk for 37 minutes because it broke down. I saw one cause an accident with a cyclist and just drive away. I've watched People in wheelchairs have re-route because they're in the way. Yet to meet someone who liked them here.

Thanks to the @nypost.com for letting me check an item off my bucket list (“be the target of a meaty hit piece by a world-class NYC tabloid”) and for highlighting @transalt.org proposals for better walking, biking, & transit! More nice ideas here: transalt.org/road-to-affo...

the times has a detailed new roundup of all the proposals to fix the triple cantilever, but it neglects the most likely and viable option (part of it collapses before anyone starts digging and we can finally plan to remove the bqe) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nobody helped with real intel and now a man just said "wow is that a throw or what" and i nodded im giving thanks for NOTHING at least not my f slur oomfs

sporting people what are the football talking points of the day? i literally have in laws

the jfk airtrain has a pre-recorded message to jock up the new terminals and apologize for all the construction and it ends with "as we work to deliver the modern curb-to-gate experience you deserve" ... bitch we're on the train??? lmao i hate the port authority so much

A lot of you

a lot of this country is a real shithole, maybe 75%, and we could fix it a lot faster if some of you could open your heart to that possibility im so sorry but im so serious

if working on holidays, all drugs you can handle are allowed

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Say what you want, but Mayor-elect Mamdani's transportation transition committee is absolutely fantastic. Having a roster of people who have written reports on how to make subways cheaper, along with the biggest pedestrian and transit advocates in the city, makes me very happy.

grateful for all my pals, buds, and chums

working link nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...

that was really generous of mclaren to double dq just so the last couple races are interesting

omg it was just beaujolais nouveau day!!!!

LMFAO they hid this so fast

no one has ever spoken like this about a GoA4 (grade-of-automation four, or no staff on-board and completely automatic) driverless metro

today feels very wife of bath

ttartisan having a little sale if u need a dopey little lens

“The contrasting responses serve as a reminder of car culture’s dominance in the Garden State. An estimated 92,000 drivers entered the congestion zone from New Jersey every day,... That’s less than half the daily ridership on the PATH train.” gothamist.com/news/nj-lead...

i always put this on as the best calming work background music when i reeeeeally have to focus for a nightmare deadline and now i have kind of ruined it pavlov style www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dyc...

going after expensive beer+hot dogs, that thing where the hospital bill has a $400 line item for advil, and uber/lyft/doordash/landlord pricing would be a continuation of Mamdani's ability to pick very specific fights extremely cleverly gothamist.com/news/the-tru...

I've had zero to do with it other than watching as an Orange Line rider, but rapid implementation of dropbacks on the OL is one of the coolest things I've seen in my time at the MBTA. From a process improvement exploration project to full-bore implementation in just a few months.

(im going mame mode) we need a little christmas RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE

you cant talk about an ntsb report in the chat anymore everyone has that damn autism alert graphic queued up

I think the debate over what people "want" is a distraction given two basic facts: 1) America vastly over-provides suburbs and under-provides dense walkability; 2) Suburbs are hideously bad for the environment and harmful to numerous markers of well-being. That's enough! We should do more density!

yayyyy psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I would love to push Bill Maher down a hill bsky.app/profile/park...

i know mamdani has to walk a tightrope but nope youre not gonna make me like someone from a billionaire family who rolled out one of the biggest surveillance dragnets on the planet!! maybe if she sticks her neck out for the killing of delrawn small but i kinda doubt it!!!!

i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems

thank you carlos that's exactly right carlos

they should have killed nickels too

From today: "We’re seeing buyers pay 10% to 20% more for homes that offer a true ‘step-out-and-go’ lifestyle. It appeals to every generation, from young families who want stroller-friendly streets to seniors who prioritize mobility, health, and longevity."

Going to keep beating this drum. For frequent subway riders, the elimination of the 30-day Metrocard is a backdoor 14% fare hike and it changes ridership behavior in a way that discourages discretionary trips. Both results are very, very bad!

extremely false and a great example of how people don't really know what they want/tastes are malleable. you might think a certain lifestyle is unimaginable and then be totally adapted in a month. it's all just economies of employment/housing/transportation/relationships, legitimized retroactively

this is what the LIRR should look like

the roll out age verification in the UK has clearly been devastating (clear examples of censorship & discrimination, & they’re scanning young people’s faces) but if platforms are also now blocking VPN workarounds that’s the end of the ability to “freely travel” online

seated for TOMORROW NEVER DIES at bam with michelle yeoh. FUN FACT monica bellucci screen tested for the teri hatcher part. but she technically became a bond girl in the end in SPECTRE. so like hold onto your dreams

math is blue, science is green, social studies is yellow, if you are not taking a foreign language, english or lit is violet, but that's the foreign language if you are, and english is red. set orange aside for a project or something.

i bet this is just like the instance we know about. since cops nominally have to obey procedures but ice can just do whatever... how tempting

ok and the hardworking folks who are just trying to get to work on SEPTA??? this guy is the worst

yes yes yes lav diaz's magellan comes out in january but bi gan's resurrection comes out next month!!!!! let's make some plans

the ceiling cladding over the escalators at barclays that has been busted since at least 2021 is finally getting repaired!!!! idk why it took this long!!!!!!

meanwhile an electric citi bike is 38 cents a minute and the docks still do not charge the bikes 🫠

does anybody want to plan a trip to london early next year

some of you

so far gothamist and the jama network are the biggest cloudflare outage victims i've seen? any other fun sites having a bad day?

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

not the point but Department of War Jones Industrial Average