The MTA also doesn't have the level of enforcement that, eg, London, another jurisdiction that effectively did away with passes has. TfL will do things like have security officers waiting to pull someone and say "Hello. We noticed you jumped the gate 500 times. See you in court." MTA does not.

I have a theory about why Barcelona has such a housing crisis. 2019 vs. 2024: www.google.com/maps/place/C...

I do think folks really underappreciate how much dogpiles on this platform are actually just toxic behavior that has quite earnestly made the platform worse and less interesting than it would otherwise have been by now, even if it feels nice to vent in the moment

Genuine question: why can’t big cities make independent school districts work like the ~rest of the country? The NYC mayor has enough on their plate to be running schools IMO!

It’s going to get lost in his enthusiasm for parades but this was an all time weird Sliwa statement

True Upper Midwestern fashion is bragging about how deep the sale was!

the weirdest part of the rise of online dating is that it has created a large set of people who view romantic interactions occurring in any context other than explicitly “i signed up to look for a romantic partner” to be weird and creepy *inherently*, because dating is contained to the Apps.

Mamdani attacking Cuomo: He was governor and the city has some of the fastest helicopter service to the Hampton and the slowest buses in The country

Watching the NYC mayoral debate and Mamdani was asked how he would achieve peace in Israel/Palestine. In one minute.

The ways that Texas NIMBYs are finding to make apartments more expensive to build are are funnier than what coastal NIMBYs come up with reason.com/2025/10/14/t... by @christianb.bsky.social

In Trump's America, pharmaceutical companies co-pay *you*.

I spoke to the Washington Post for this article. Nobody wants higher car insurance premiums, but let's not lose sight of what they are supposed to cover: the cost of compensating people, especially those outside of a vehicle, for harms caused by the driver. wapo.st/3KQ8Al3

Traffic is also a flow problem, which is why circulation planning matters as much as reallocating space in section. It is also why buses can be more "efficient" than bikes; in some cases, they need to get priority over bikes and pedestrians, contrary to what the various transport pyramid suggests.

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday: "Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Happy Honolulu Skyline Segment 2 Opening Day to you & yours! Follow @hnltransitfan.bsky.social (or especially on the other platform) for the best coverage! A couple scenes from my July visit, with a train testing near the Airport, and the then-end of revenue service trackage Aloha Stadium station.

“If Metro were to remove fare revenue from its balance sheet, that move would actually represent a disproportionate benefit to businesses who pay for monthly passes used by their employees.”

Theory of what the generic non-AI company is facing: -sticky cost pressures in part due to tariffs -revenue growth from middling (CPG) to solid (high-end consumer) -extreme Wall Street pressure to maintain/expand profit margins -possible need to invest in AI -doesn’t leave room to hire more workers

HOLY FUCK

The Po Valley desperately trying to solve its air quality problem with one more seasonal temporary restriction of more polluting vehicles. "I swear, bro, one more Thursday with no Euro <5 vehicles between 8 am and 9 pm will fix it!"

There is a website tracking Urban Access Regulations across European countries and I guess we have a winner for the country with the most Urban access regulations... urbanaccessregulations.eu/userhome/map

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

Notably, at the turn of the *20th* century, battery-powered cars were seen as a “women’s” car. Real men drove cars that belched and smoked and required physical strength to crank start!

As EVs have become more mainstream and affordable, the gender gap has shrunk. A decade ago, men outnumbered women among EV buyers 3 to 1. Now, the ratio is 2 to 1.

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

The Democratic establishment will certainly give this scrappy progressive upstart a hard-fought battle. You know who else would do that? Every Republican for the rest of his career.

My personal opinion is that you shouldn't get credit for winning elections until you actually do.

The answer for Democrats is to not apologize, not back down, and confidently own what you said.

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this. That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

If Barack Obama had sent the National Guard into Texas against the Texas Governor’s wishes, @seanhannity would’ve gotten so worked up he’d a had a heart attack on air.

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

More from today's initial light rail vehicle roll down the Southwest LRT route. Construction began in 2018 and Metro Transit says passengers will ride in 2027. Over the Kenilworth Channel, leaving W Lake St Station, arriving at W 21st St Station, exiting the Kenilworth tunnel.

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”? Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

I feel like there's a reporter omerta about online stuff, like they think that it's everyone's god given right to be a secret reactionary online

a popular X "transit researcher" has completely misread and misrepresented simple statistics and has claimed that 17%+ of transit riders in germany are fare evading. because that is the percent of people who have evaded, not the evasion rate.

My vehicle costs are around $4000 per year for about 15000 miles per year. Because I'm comfortable driving a small, unpowerful, older car.

When I lived in the Bay Area, the biggest value difference I noticed was how much less accepted it was to be visibly stressed. There was a California cool you were never expected to break. Combine it with Silicon Valley grindset culture and it can be quite lonely and isolating.

Here's the deal, SNCF workers SNCF exists to transport passengers. It does not exist - primarily! - to keep you in work france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/se... If you want to make the case against régions giving contracts to others, BE BETTER jonworth.eu/connecting-t...

I could really go for a pair of new dress sneakers. I hear that they are the fashion trend in vogue nowadays.

These fare increases sound substantial, but not when you realize this is the first increase since 2018. Refusing to raise fares sufficiently to keep up with inflation is a backdoor transit cut: nothing equitable about defunding transit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/c...

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

This is one thing New York, Chicago, and Boston wipe the floor with Canadian cities on. Outer suburban. Trains there are more or less short distance intercity trains to places like Poughkeepsie, Trenton, Aurora, Elgin, Providence, Worcester, etc.

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

I really wish the FCC and FBI actually did something about phone spammers. I’m sick of encountering a pig-butchering scam nearly every day.

More and more, I’m convinced NYC’s lack of public restrooms should be a bigger scandal than it is. bsky.app/profile/jmar...