Really wish the MTA would give hard OMNY card users the pass option again.

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

Doubling ridership! Doubling!

Ever since HR Ep 5 came out, I've been so confused about how the opening of I'll Believe in Anything works. There are 23 notes before the drums come in on a 6/4 downbeat. Turns out the previous track has an extra 8 notes starting on the upbeat immediately after the last chord.

In what world is BRAD LANDER not trustworthy? He's been one of the most consistent NYC pols for over a decade, and he's risked his own physical safety for ICE over and over again in the past year

It's been one year of congestion pricing and the results are clear: *11% fewer cars in the congestion zone *Faster travel speeds *Faster busses *No negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods. All while raising significant funds for transit. A huge win for NYC! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Stockholm congestion pricing went from "political suicide" to wildly successful. Great film from @streetfilms.bsky.social

Well, this is desperate of Delgado. Definitely not voting for him if he's going to harm the MTA's fiscal outlook xcancel.com/delgadoforny...

your feed has been blessed by the 3rd rail anti-icing work train. RT if you too are anti-ice

Substitute "bike lane" "public plaza" "open street" "road diet" "busway" "traffic calming installation" etc for "congestion pricing" & the headline still works The freakout always precedes the benefits, and is proven wrong on the ground @gothamist.com

Everyone wish congestion pricing a happy birthday!

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If all Mayor Mamdani and Flynn do for the next few weeks is dust off canceled or watered down Adams-era bike projects we’ll be headed in the right direction. This is great news.

This is a tremendous point. Only ten or so years ago, buses could be a huge usability challenge for new riders. Routes weren't clear, vehicle arrivals were unpredictable, and even knowing where to get off if you weren't a regular rider was surprisingly difficult.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Holy shit it's real

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

As Eric Adams heads off into that great Turkish Airlines lounge in the sky, we remember his legacy

This New Year's Day. I'm thankful for NYCT running extra late night express service so I could get home from Washington Heights to Brooklyn in a reasonable amount of time

Don’t forget to set your clocks forward

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

New York City has a new mayor

Happy socialist mayor day to all who celebrate!

IT’S HAPPENING

Anyone staunchly against mayoral control should take a look at cities like LA and SF, which have had subpar outcomes under their school boards. Mayoral control under De Blasio and Adams got us universal pre-K and (one of the only good things Adams did) increased literacy rates

Even before the city takeover, the city financed construction and had contracts with the IRT and BMT telling them exactly which lines and stations to build

CEQA gets most of the publicity, but New York’s environmental review law (SEQR) is a copy-paste of CEQA, only unlike in California, there have been essentially zero reforms to this law.

Physicist who periodically does manual labor for my anarchist commune on the moon (The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin)

MTA Admits To Fabricating Large Parts Of Subway Map https://theonion.com/mta-admits-to-fabricating-large-parts-of-subway-map/

My parents had a broken shower valve for multiple years that would backfill the cold pipes with hot water. Whenever they watered the lawn, we'd get a little toilet sauna. Sometimes, I'd even scald myself trying to wash my hands with the cold tap. Not great!

and a streetsblog exclusive

That's my transit mayor!

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

Canada needs HSR so closeted gay hockey players can visit their closeted bi hockey player boyfriends more often

This is transit's biggest structural challenge: all of its costs for users are marginal, whereas with a car most of the costs are fixed (acquisition, registration, etc.). One strategy is to increase marginal costs for cars (tolls, parking, gas) and shift some transit costs to fixed (monthly pass).

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

I'm so excited not to have to lift my luggage over the turnstile anymore! I use the earlier pilot at Atlantic Terminal all the time

Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation. This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.

As the era of the MetroCard comes to an official end this year, a transit YouTuber and his friend traveled the longest possible distance on a single swipe — from Putnam to Suffolk County. Miles Taylor and @jeremyzorek.bsky.social from @milesintransit.com joined NY1. Watch here: specne.ws/ns733g

god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion

New-design faregates at Broadway-Lafayette this morning

The bill on Hochul's desk mandating 2PTO on the MTA, Assembly Bill A4873, still hasn't been vetoed. If it's not by the end of the day it will automatically be law and worsen service on small shuttle trains and off-peak services as a result Call her office at (518) 474-8390 and demand she veto this

Spent tonight at Barclays seeing Lorde. What an amazing show. Pure, raw, unfiltered, euphoric.

Stay safe out there y'all

The more you study old US transit plans the more you realize that ~everyone was rightfully fixated on travel time savings, noting times right on the map. Philly did a particularly impressive analysis with isochrones in *1914* babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...

My first time seeing the complete (unrealized) plan for IM Pei's Crown Heights superblocks from 1969. I love how it doesn't just add park space, but threads new off-street connections. from www.archpaper.com/2025/12/plaz...

Paladino should be expelled from the Council, not given a fake-stern talking to. If Menin fails this test, she isn’t up for being Speaker.

I'd love to see a commitment to implementing the Grand Army Plaza redesign in 2026. bsky.app/profile/nyc....