The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.

Electrification is bearing fruit in California - the electrification of Caltrain service has resulted in 50% increase in weekday ridership and doubling weekend. The report shows the complementary benefits of level boarding which will make service faster and more reliable.

MARTA recently used a parking deck (on a car-sewer road) as its cover photo on Facebook. It's disappointing, but not surprising. Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens. Act like it's a city, y'all.

But I am, we told you so.

“I’d like to give the MTA credit for pushing forward on a cleaner, modern map,” Vanmaps designer (and transit map aficionado) Andrew Lynch told The Groove. “The MTA gets a lot of flack for everything they do, so it’s important to credit a win.”

“Some voters” believe literally every possible conspiracy that supports their worldview you cannot act based on the ludicrous beliefs of ‘some voters’

1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece 2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words ew.com/kenan-thomps...

Waiting for MBTA to start implementing night owl service like…. 24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌

Ooh @capmetroatx.bsky.social is proposing to extend their Route 483 night owl service to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in August! 🦉✈️ capmetro.org/servicechange

Go Cory! Still going after 13 hours! Looking quite tired but he's still going!

very excited for the communities over highways summit next month

On August 15, 1974, Seoul opened South Korea’s first subway line. But its opening was chaotic and funereal, and even briefly canceled. What happened? I explore how events from that day would not only reshape Seoul Metro, but Seoul and South Korea itself forever www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...

The American Planning Association session on “Saying No to NIMBY” is PACKED, with dozens of people sitting on the floor.

American planning in a nutshell. Shove all the housing next to the interstate and taper away from it with low density housing. Is Paris designed like that? New York? London? Tokyo? I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?

Here’s a graphic I found that show this, it’s quite interesting www.reddit.com/r/Urbanism/s...

"The next two years for Democrats should be about costs, specifically for housing and health care. Who is raising those costs, and who has plans to lower them?" Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

Unfortunately, that's the one thing both the left and the right agree on: our neighborhoods are already too full as evidence by the lack of parking and traffic jams

Not new! In The Political Beliefs of Americans (1967) Cantril & Free found that Americans were "ideological conservatives" opposed to abstract "big government", but "operational liberals" for lots of specific spending. It doesn't help that they have no clue re distribution of spending.

Confusing traditional cultural touchpoints for current median American culture is a great way to lose the zeitgeist. Every medium size town in this country is obsessed with bubble tea, or with thrifting as a fashion practice. These things aren't left-coded; they're burgeoning mass culture. Go there.

Limited growth has its consequences.

A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/

Andrew Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down a safe nuclear plant, which was almost entirely replaced by fossil fuels. his policies are genuinely awful

Oh my goodness!

Uh, so my mother who is a Boomer said Austin had an "apartment glut" and then I ended up having to point out that this "glut" actually lowered people's rents which was a good thing (when I pointed this out she understood why that was a good thing though) 😒

"Free" parking -- at home or at work -- makes people more likely to travel by car. Study: "Households with bundled parking are more likely to drive, and less likely to use transit." doi.org/10.5198/jtlu...

*Instead of a subway line with a park

Are single-stair "sunlight suites" a fire risk? Short answer: nope.

i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

When I tell you there are vanishingly few decision-makers in journalism who do this and we're all the poorer because of it ... Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

"When it comes down to it, Mitch McConnell has always been a man of his principles, even when those principles are garbage. Because at his core, McConnell has been committed to no higher cause than the acquisition of power for his party."

One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying. Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.

Moments where the base and the party leaders are at odds are moments where new leaders come to prominence. Both Howard Dean and Barack Obama reached the heights they did because of their opposition to a war that many Democrats in power signed off on.

An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

I honest to god don't care that she tried to kill congestion pricing like 50 times if she's gonna behave like this.

If you’re going drinking in the Mission then parking is a priori not an issue because you should definitely not be driving

Would be nice to be a functioning country like this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Never not relevant.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

A key to understanding this is that the people who were committing PPP fraud are the base of Trump and the Republican Party's support

Between the tiny hexagonal trains in the moldy tunnel and the scenic ride through coastal marshland, the Blue Line feels like the love child of the PATH and the IND Rockaway Line. Wonderland is a top-tier station name too.

Legacy media is going to have to decide whether they want to keep on hoovering up profits until they get forced into the gulag or become state-sponsored media. They'd have a lot more time to cover the impact of Trump if they weren't worried about access.