Seattle is doing a really great job at boosting transit ridership by adding frequent service where people already want to go

How the hell did this driver go nearly half a kilometer up the viaduct before realizing they'd done something wrong and stopping

I'm on a Zoom call for the Grand Army Plaza redesign. The project isn't funded yet, but they're almost done with preliminary planning/design and ready to move onto budgeting and full design soon

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

What do we know about how to leverage upzonings to generate substantial new housing supply? 1—Large increases in zoned capacity are needed 2—Upzoning needs to be in strong housing markets 3—Be patient: Change takes time That's our conclusion in a new research roundup @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

This is the wrong decision for transit in New York. Existing rights-of-way that travel through dense, under-served neighborhoods do not grow on trees, and it's a massive own goal for any city to not take advantage of them. No plan does this better than @queenslink.org.

well, it took a year and change, but Cambridge's first-in-the-nation project to upzone the entire city for 4-to-6 story residential has finally produced the kind of thing it was supposed to: 55 units, 20 percent affordable, replacing a single $3m home

Every metropolitan area in the US should be studying congestion pricing now to be ready to implement with a new administration. There is no other tool that so quickly and effectively decreases traffic, increase bus speeds, increases transit ridership, and reduces emissions.

‘No’ Anne Simon strikes again

if you want different representation in AD52 -- someone who supports Mayor Mamdani's housing initiatives rather than opposing them behind the veil of the budget process -- check out @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social www.lydiagreenbk.com

Streetsblog talked to ETA about New York's short-sighted policy of stopping buses to inspect fares. A policy change can't come fast enough: cities around the country and the world keep passengers moving by inspecting fares while vehicles are in motion.

Glad to see that the MTA is considering changing this policy, something which can't come fast enough. Other cities across the country and world inspect fares while the vehicle is moving, and New York should be no exception.

NY riders face some of the highest transit pass costs globally, needing 50 rides a month under current fare capping just to break even. An affordable monthly pass would align the city with international standards and provide genuine financial relief for daily riders. www.etany.org/reports/mont...

Seems like as good a time as any to reup this piece, particularly re: the LIRR, its contracts and how its unions are deeply enmeshed in GOP machine out on Long Island — www.vitalcitynyc.org/why-are-new-...

The LIRR has some of the highest operating costs of US commuter rails, and the current strike centers on one key reason: work rules dating back to the steam era. Modernizing these agreements is critical to expanding service & ensuring fiscal stability. ETA's analysis: www.etany.org/statements/l...

I'm annoyed that certain high-profile accounts keep citing LIRR wages as the reason to support the MTA over the union. The reason to support the MTA is that the work rules let some workers earn 2x their peers for no extra work, so they are easily abused by seniority and fraudsters

Cost differential between MNR and LIRR (same trains, same metro territory, just different work rules) is ~$200m a year.

Atlantic is a perfectly capable facility despite its shorter platforms, a thing the MTA can and should fix before the deck goes up for housing. During the “Summer of Hell” for Penn repairs in 2017, the LIRR was running ~12-15tph in the peak to Brooklyn.

Atlantic + GCM can squeeze in the entire peak direction schedule if the LIRR has access to all its rolling stock. There’s no reason to chop the trains at Jamaica and dump everyone onto the E or the J.

A fire in the East River tunnels has shut down almost all LIRR service into and out of Penn Station. While disasters like this are thankfully rare, they highlight the value of an emergency operations plan—especially for a railroad with as many terminals as the LIRR. www.etany.org/statements/m...

This study has some really great designs for @mayor.nyc.gov and @nyc-dot.bsky.social to adopt across NYC!

Exciting new Transit Priority Atlas from @chittimarco.bsky.social & NYU Marron provides an exciting look at mechanisms to speed transit on surface streets, including a large set of strategies & toolkits, all beautifully illustrated! tpa.transitcosts.com

Here at the launch of the Transit Priority Atlas for the Transit Costs Project. @chittimarco.bsky.social has done amazing work (using incredibly gorgeous diagrams); this is an unbelievable resource for North America! tpa.transitcosts.com

Washington DC’s transit system plans to automate its trains, removing the need for human operators. As I explained in @bloomberg.com, this could be a watershed moment for US public transportation. Gift link & 🧵

I'm still so mad at Cuomo for shuttering Indian Point. CHPE and Empire Wind will help, but every MWh counts

Politicians like to pretend that costs and trade-offs are fake, but they're very real! Inclusionary zoning and labor requirements both impose costs, and developers (and their underwriters!) know that those costs aren't worth an extra handful of units

One thing that's cool about the Mamdani bike bus is that it goes beyond just centering bicyclists (and pedestrians) and focuses on the fact that children have a right to move around cities safely without fear of cars. Kids deserve freedom of movement.

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Court St to East New York Ave is literally all of both Bergen St and Dean St. It's such a breath of fresh air to see proposals that span the entire length of a street and not just piecemeal chunks of it!

TAKE OFF YOUR BACKPACK IN A CROWDED SUBWAY CAR.

It's happening. On Friday, 5/15, we are soft-launching our Transit Priority Atlas 1.0 website. Come join us in person at 370 Jay Street to explore this knowledge-sharing tool and get lost in circulation planning layouts and intersection management strategies for better on-street transit.

NY's Penn Station is clogged by trains. Thankfully, there's a solution that does not involve costly reconstruction: through-running. In a newly public report, ETA illustrates how the region can use Metro-North Penn Access to build a truly regional rail network. www.etany.org/reports/thro...

Construction on the Ocean Ave protected bike lane project has begun and, in a way, shows the absurdity of the design. If we can lose the parking for the better part of the year to build what will end up being a narrow bike lane, why can’t we lose the parking permanently to build a wide bike lane?

Riders Alliance wants to cut driving in NYC by 40% by emulating Paris’s “growing toolkit of carrots and sticks” (nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/01/o...), so why are they supporting state legislation to require two employees on each subway while Paris is going driverless (www.amny.com/news/nyc-tra...)?

This is really the key point of our new report: even before it was eliminated, NY's monthly transit pass was one of the most expensive in the world. Now, with only a weekly fare cap, it's tied for *most* expensive. Reasonably priced fare passes are one of the best tools we have to boost ridership.

Monthly passes are one of the strongest ways to encourage transit ridership and reduce fare evasion, but the MTA retired the pass when it retired the MetroCard last year. Read ETA's latest report: www.etany.org/reports/mont...

The city has put out designs for expanding 11 blocks of the Park Avenue median. I'm a little wary of the median bike lane, but I hope the left turn lanes will prevent cars from blocking the crossing like they do today www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

ETA joins with our partners opposing a bill mandating two person trains. One-person train operation—and increasingly, full automation—is the standard across both the country and the globe, for good reason. It is safe, and allows for improved service at lower cost.

We are live as @nyc-dot.bsky.social holds the formal groundbreaking for its transformative Flatbush Av. bus lane. The ceremonial shovels are here but work is already underway! #ThisIsStreetsblog

View our group memo of opposition with @cbcny.bsky.social, @etany.org, @partnership4nyc.bsky.social, @rpa.org, and Transits Cost Project on a bill that would require two-person crews on every NYC subway train reinventalbany.org/2026/04/grou...

🚨 Today, we witnessed an alarming attack on ballot access in New York City 🚨 Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are fighting to block two Stop Deed Theft advocates from running for District Leader in Bed-Stuy... (thread)

Council Speaker Menin is proposing to allow single-stair buildings up to eight stories on narrow lots. She would also get rid of the requirement for a trash room on every floor www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/24/n...

This level of innumeracy is far too common in the US, but it's especially embarrassing that these people have so much power

This is incredibly disappointing. In the past, the RPA has been one of the leaders in pushing for through-running regional rail service. This is simply incorrect, as proven by rail operations across the world: www.etany.org/penn-station...

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"