As ETA has argued, mandating two-person trains is akin to mandating the return of elevator operators. NY transit should be learning from global best practices. That means OPTO & automation for better service. Our transit shouldn't be locked in the past. www.etany.org/statements/i...

ETA and other civic orgs are urging NY not to require two operators on every train. One-person train operation (OPTO) is a standard practice used on every subway system around the world—including on the MTA. This bill would hurt riders and lock NY's transit system in the past. tinyurl.com/etatpto

Lee Zeldin, inept, as US AG would be sort of hilarious. He hasn't been a practicing attorney since 2010. Most of his experience was with the Port Authority as a junior attorney. DOJ is going to look like even more of a clown show.

The consortium of organizations behind Wednesday’s letter wrote that “[fewer] than 6% of 400 rail lines around the world use two or more train operators...” “These systems have operated safely without conductors, or any staff in some cases, on board,” the letter reads buff.ly/kJ2XJnC

See our groups' @cbcny.bsky.social @etany.org @partnership4nyc.bsky.social @rpa.org & Transit Costs Project letter opposing the renewed push to mandate two subway crew members per train here: buff.ly/YCZxQzP

Groups urge Albany to reject NYC transit union’s 2-person subway crew push

“...Reinvent Albany, the Partnership for New York, the Regional Plan Association, the Citizens Budget Commission, the Effective Transit Alliance and NYU’s Marron Institute voiced their opposition to a pair of bills working their way through Albany." www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/01/g...

Trump’s address on Iran tonight - take a shot every time he says: * two weeks * obliterated * “victory” or “won” * gas prices will come down

Unknown from NYCDOT: whether there is traffic reduction from congestion pricing that could facilitate a bike lane on the Brooklyn-bound side of the bridge roadway

The brooklyn bridge bike lane improvements are great, but imo it really needs to be widened across the bridge. It’s an uncomfortable ride with lots of close passes by faster riders. It gets very busy at commuting time #bikenyc

“The problem is we don’t know exactly what Amtrak is asking the bidders to submit to them," @rachaelfauss.bsky.social, says the deal might allow real estate giants to profit. “But there may be a backdoor way for New York taxpayers to pay for it if the feds are proposing development as part of this."

“You have to be very careful on Linden because the traffic is horrible,” she added. “They’re always speeding. They don't think about people.” NEW: gothamist.com/news/is-lind...

The City Council wants to offer free subway and bus fares to over one million New Yorkers living at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, a change that would mark a significant expansion of the city’s Fair Fares program, amNewYork has learned. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

Infrastructure Week, amirite?!

MAGA = Morons Are Governing America

In the small 30-block-zone that makes up the Theater District, there were 486 reported crashes last year. It should be a no-brainer to ban private motor vehicles there, given that it has the best public transit access of any similarly-sized area in the entire US.

Just saw this driver casually get out and put stickers over his license plates just before getting on the Manhattan Bridge to avoid congestion pricing

It's wild that the Broadway League would be against further pedestrianization of at least part of the theater district. It's as if they've never heard of London, where some West End theaters front streets that are at least temporarily pedestrianized during show times.

NYC No Kings march today photographed by Adam Gray: www.instagram.com/p/DWcf2Xmj-UL/

Holy New York.

Bruce Springsteen led the #NoKings crowd in St. Paul with chants of "ICE out." 📷️: Renee Jones Schneider

@RideLeicester team did not pick up a Decarbonisation Award in London yesterday but we did meet @JerryDammers on The Mall at the March Against The Far Right today - That’s a Win !

Bears repeating #NoKings

Bears repeating #NoKings

#NoKings Times Square

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

GREAT news for sickos who don’t want a new surface transport authorization to pass before midterms!

ICE is “the reason that we’re not getting paid. And now I’m working next to that person. And they’re getting paid to do nothing.” TSA officers are 🔥 at LaGuardia.

Hi All, Just sent out free midweek update #3. It starts with the basic reality that the best the US seems to hope for from Iran now is worse than Obama's 2015 agreement (and far worse than Trump said he would get). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Four new polls, one consistent finding: Most Americans oppose the United States’ strikes in Iran.

30% is effectively 0%, since 30% of people think the earth is flat and that all politicians are lizard people, which means the first 30% is simply a noise floor.

“What gas prices?” Better cities create choices. #UrbanTruth

NY4P's @kathyparkprice.bsky.social and transpo advocate @jonorcutt.bsky.social wrote for @nydailynews.com calling on @mayor.nyc.gov to ban personal vehicles from parks citywide to keep NYers safe and their parks accessible. It’s time to fully design park roads for people, not cars. bit.ly/4lCdfoX

Legislators, groups call to end NY tax breaks for Trump Opportunity Zones—costing up to $424 million/year with little benefit to New Yorkers. buff.ly/TpauyjA

Letting a known dangerous situation persist on the street (while City Hall or DOT play 4D political chess in their own minds?) risks someone getting killed or badly hurt. Then you'll have to do the project anyway. But you'll look like an asshole, not a leader

This looks great, especially the widening! Park Avenue greenway next? Park Ave is just lying there - no buses to compromise bikeway design, untouched since the 20th C., big potential for car-free Grand Central viaducts etc - lfg

This new two-way bike lane on Lafayette from Prince Street to Astor Place will be a game changer for Manhattan's bike network. buff.ly/8DMjnff

Gas prices, welcome to The War on Cars.

The bike lane parking is way worse than before they protected it. The neighborhood’s drivers clearly interpreted Eric Adams’s backtracking on the protected lane as carte blanche to use the unprotected one for double parking, and Mamdani is letting them do it with impunity.

When are you bringing back the Bedford Ave. bike lane, @vinbarone.bsky.social? It’s become terrifyingly unsafe…the double parking is worse than ever, drivers speed past you if you keep to the side, and they try to run you off the road if you try to take the lane. Somebody’s going to die.

only we attack unexpectedly no they attack unexpectedly

NYC Parks needs proper funding. With the #PlayFair Coalition for Parks and partners, today we called on @nycmayor to end the disinvestment in the critical green spaces that keep our city resilient, healthy, and joyful. Sign petition: bit.ly/fundparksnow @ny4p.bsky.social @tiffanycaban.bsky.social

One thing the crank opponents love to say is that #openstreets are very bad for the physically challenged. On @34ave.bsky.social for 1 hour walk I grabbed just a few quick shots of the dozens I saw with canes, wheelchairs, electric scooters & other devices. It's like this daily. Ask users.

Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸 #StunDay #photography

The new mayor of #Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, celebrated his victory last night by riding to city hall on a Vélib' bikeshare bicycle. He's promised 60,000 new social housing units 15 express bus routes, 1000 new pedestrian streets, completion of bike path network...

The closer he gets to the end the more obvious it is when he's making shit up as he goes. None of this is a thing. He's just yanking ideas out of the Poltergeist closet in his head.

There. Is. No. Plan.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks