My East Side Access ballroom jokes are aging magnificently, like the finest champagne

Trump take train.

Bruce Blakeman was too cowardly to respond to a request for comment on this canceled project, which led to a death he is now responsible for

Proud to share my transportation and infrastructure platform. New York moves nearly half of all American transit riders but receives just 15% of federal transit funding. That's a ripoff. It’s long past time we ended this bad deal. (1/3)

This should lead to an automatic loss of license and impoundment.

NYT editorial board issues a full-throated endorsement of congestion pricing: "Over its first 14 months, the [NYC] congestion pricing system has exceeded even the high hopes of many supporters. It has reduced traffic, improved the quality of life and even provided a boost for businesses."

Times Union reporter Larry Rulison took the bus to work. It was surprisingly pleasant, cheap and a nice break from gas prices inching toward $4 a gallon.

The @claireforny.bsky.social quote is the star of this NYT article about Queenslink. We need imagination and vision: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...

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.

Should these abandoned railroad tracks in central Queens become a park? A train line? New report out today argues that both are possible at a lower price, with bigger benefits, than the MTA thinks. Will Mayor Mamdani, who supported it last year, back the idea now? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...

"This broke guy keeps yelling at me and I hope he can live here forever" is just 👨‍🍳😘

The leading cities in Europe for alternative transportation still has cars yah dummies, lmao. I safely rode bikes in Paris and Amsterdam and still saw plenty of cars. Yet Paris has seen a huge decrease in air pollution and much less traffic. I'm so tired of this talking point, no one is banning.

Gas prices, welcome to The War on Cars.

It's important to remind your friends and neighbors - particularly on Long Island - that when you summer energy costs are up high this year, it's because Donald Trump used your taxpayer money to bribe a foreign company to invest in fossil fuels and halt wind farm developments off the LI coast.

I'm glad something is happening here, but for the money and effort why not build something that will still be functional in 20 years? We saw what happened with the Flushing Ave bike lane, which took forever to build and is now way too narrow for the bike traffic it handles.

IMO the more interesting takeaway is that 44% of Americans prefer to live within walking distance of schools and stores. Safe to assume that most of them currently don’t. The US forces car-dominated sprawl on millions of people who don’t want it.

That preference for more urban-style living (44%) is massively over the actual share of population in urban communities (~31%), a percentage that has remained flat over ~20 years -- www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

New York, let's do it. cc: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"The hour of the crash — 8:05 p.m. on a Thursday — also bolsters Mayor Mamdani's argument that school zone speed limits should remain in effect not only in the hours that children are in classes, but at all times because schools are typically at the center of communities."

E-biking shouldn't require a driver's license. "E-bikes don’t pose greater risks than conventional bicycles. On average, e-bike crashes are equally as likely and severe as conventional bike crashes. And research from Denmark even shows e-bike riders are more likely to follow traffic laws."

Do I dare ask whether they will be open gangway?

$ON-IN-LAW MONEY TRAIN DUFFY BAGS OF CASH

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...

The Carroll Street Bridge has been closed for *five years* and no one has complained about it, nor has it led to a traffic apocalypse. And it hasn't resulted in longer emergency response times. There's no need to open it back up to cars.

Janno Lieber is spilling the damn TEA nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/17/m...

The thing that makes traffic "creep" is too many cars. Either way, we also need to challenge the idea that just because you're in an automobile you deserve to go faster than 15 or 20 mph. The best cities around the world are implementing 20 mph speed limits or lower. NYC should too.

Finding parking can take a lot longer than Google/Apple Maps suggest. For instance, navigation apps ignore time drivers spend looking for a spot and then walking from it to their destination. Result: Trips that are stressful and travel planning that’s biased toward cars. Me, in @fastcompany.com 🧵

"kind of a moron"

Car dependency is an extremely inequitable way to structure society. In places where car ownership is optional, low and high income households spend roughly an equal % of income on transportation. In car dependent places, transportation costs are 4x higher for low income households.

That's right. Good on the mayor.

LMAO The Portal Bridge going out as a total dumpster fire. You gotta salute it. 🫡

Republicans are pro-cancer. They have ceased funding cancer research and are lifting limits on carcinogens. This is one of those things the median voter wouldn't believe because it sounds outlandish.

As always, the Pentagon trotting out the 'Your experienced war correspondents on the ground in the war zone just can't see how well this war is going' remains a pretty good indicator that things are not going to plan.

@claireforny.bsky.social, candidate in NY's 7th Congressional district, has issued a transportation platform that does a great job bridging the federal transportation establishment/policy & NYC's needs nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/13/c...

Imagine if anthropologists visited a remote village with no grocery store and one restaurant that only served hamburgers and then concluded based on their observations that the villagers prefer hamburgers. That's essentially the discourse surrounding Americans and their relationship to cars.

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

“And that’s why I keep voting for all of Trump’s appointees.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

The US DOT Secretary "loves transit," yet hasn't managed to fund a single new transit project in his now >400 days in office www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

Facts you don't hear from the suburban/NY Post fare evasion caucus "A new analysis of toll evasion found the amount owed by drivers who don't pay paper toll invoices has more than doubled since 2022, from $147 million in unpaid tolls to nearly $350 million" @nyc.streetsblog.org

The death of organized third places for kids (and adults!) is an underrated problem. Outside of urban academic circles, it doesn't get much attention.

None of this is true, but also... low hotel rates would not be a sign of a booming economy. Quite the opposite!

Another bill that would significantly water down and create massive loopholes in ACE/bus lane enforcement has been introduced. Glad we at least know it exists before it's passed this go around. If you live in AM Taylor's district, voice your concern! @2avesag.as @ridersalliance.org

Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run https://theonion.com/prospective-car-buyer-takes-suv-out-for-test-hit-and-run/

I am telling you: The ADL is an organization run by a modern day Kapo and they are actively harming American Jews.

The Highway Trust is functionally broke, there’s no consistent dedicated revenue stream for transit … and, uh, this saves like 15c a gallon.

The fossil billionaires who own Congress would never...but neither would DC's mayor 🤔

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Lol

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