"Poo was never a pollutant. When we defecate, we emit poo. Plants need poo to survive and grow. They thrive with more poo."

New research finds that ~18% of Americans would like to live car-free -- more than double the share that currently does. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The next Democratic administration should nationalize the Ambassador Bridge on Day One.

Illegally withholding Congressionally-appropriated dollars. That’s how this should be framed. Another impeachable offense that Republicans will ignore.

INFRASTRUCTURE? WEAK!

Trump hauling out lines that predate Selena

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Electrification ftw!

Wait, what???

Wanting Penn Station named after you a sign you haven’t been there.

Yesterday, in a blatantly partisan move, the White House instructed the US DOT & the CDC to cut $1.5 b in grants, exclusively in Blue states. The grants appear to be being cut because they support poor neighborhoods, non-English speakers, queer people, or efforts to combat climate change.

Great stuff from @emilyassembly.bsky.social, keeping pressure on all-door bus boarding The MTA has been largely allowed to get away with making "faster buses" the city's job while punting on stuff within its own power @estarkmiller.bsky.social

One small thing that individually you can do in light of Bezos and all this mess: 1. Read @literaryhub.bsky.social for everything books: lithub.com 2. Buy from @bookshop.org or your local bricks-and-mortar store. Never buy books from Amazon.

Say what you will about Streetsblog and our agenda, but we don't invent facts to get mad about

We have a proposal for the 125th Street crosstown subway and we have an initial price tag ($7.7 billion). Now it's time for the MTA to figure out how to make it cheaper nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/03/d...

ICE targeted transit stations

Loud heavy long sigh. This has it all: Bashing his own successful policy Making up numbers about fare evasion Complaining that the MTA isn’t doing something it’s currently doing. This tedious asshole nearly became mayor. x.com/77wabcradio/...

Getting east to west in The Bronx is hard. Really there is only Fordham road that goes through (and the highway). And the legit BIG hills make it a tough place to bike east west as well. Such a line would be transformative

It's kind of incredible that despite the evident need, there's never been a serious study of a Cross-Bronx rail link? Or am I just drawing a giant blank?

The NBER researchers considered which other US cities might see comparable suburban speed benefits if they implement congestion pricing. Their criteria: 1) Powerful downtown 2) Congested suburbs 3) Many long commutes Boston and Chicago both are both promising candidates.

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing: Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

Abolishing ICE isn't sufficient.

One aspect of US housing policy that doesn't work is the fact that we simultaneously: A—Want "more affordable" housing B—Want the middle class to put wealth into housing & to increase their wealth that way (indeed, they do: usafacts.org/answers/how-... ) These two goals are difficult to reconcile!

Why is the Dept of Transportation trying to torpedo NYC congestion pricing? Why - in God’s name - is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on TV smearing the Minnesotans killed by ICE? For @newrepublic.com, I show Trump has turned USDOT into an authoritarian weapon. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Why do people on the right claim that protestors in Minneapolis and elsewhere are “paid”? Because they’re just telling on themselves

This is a tough storm to clear considering how much of it is ice and how cold it's going to be for the next weeks, but as always, the problem is that Sanitation plows the snow out of the roadway, which means it blocks the sidewalks and bus stops, and no one trails behind to do adequate removal.

Congestion Pricing in New York City is a huge success. Today, we’re in court defending this innovative policy.

Once again, comments from NYers about “newcomers” are indistinguishable from MAGA rhetoric about immigrants. Especially when the subject matter is the mostly-immigrant delivery workforce.

Funding has been off since October. This should be a complete national scandal on top of all other national scandals. The administration is holding our money hostage while they make up new rules.

At least two of the storefronts should be given over to people who've run DIY music venues in the city. You should be able to go to Fulton Center to see the next Geese for like $8

Which is why the federal government has deployed agencies that <<checks notes>> don’t have financial fraud in their remit to the scene to <<spins wheel>> drag people out of their homes in <<throws dart>> subzero weather <<pulls lever>> as the President makes racist comments about ethnic groups

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

He said the thing, on camera

US DOT has not signed a single agreement for a big transit project since Duffy entered office. DOT eliminated funds for billions of dollars worth of projects. Tens of thousands of people are killed each year in car crashes. Transport emissions are increasing. Meanwhile, Duffy is focusing on pajamas

There is no other option than to abolish ICE.

I argue in a new @nyc.streetsblog.org piece that it's time for NYC DOT to get its policy-making & -explaining mojo back

Coming up tomorrow: the sit-down no one in the room ever expected to actually happen

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

Lyft won’t let allow users to set the Lefferts Blvd. AirTrain station as a destination. Automatically defaults to the terminals at nearly twice the cost.

It will be @shaunabreu.bsky.social. I approve.

Read the new 125th street subway feasibility study. It’s well done report. Every project in the US should have something like this! There are still questions: Why are stations so deep? Why are stations 75 feet wide? If serious, let’s seriously plan the tunnel sequence. www.mta.info/document/196...

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...

What are we pedestrianizing NYC?

Something to start thinking about is what could be possible if NYC is home to both Senate Majority Leader & House Speaker AND the U.S. transportation law is up for a rewrite (I know..smoking that hopium) Not just w transit, but how bout resources to make good on the city's greenway plan, etc?

Great choice

This is odd framing. The MTA's own 20 year needs assessment trumpeted the westward extension, and I know a a lot of people involved with the 2nd Ave. Subway over the years who have serious questions about the feasibility of the original Phases 3 and 4 plans southward.

Hell yeah we’re going west.

A huge, transformative project that, if delivered, would be the first consistent expansion of the New York City subway system since about WWII.

The MTA has responded

I saw multiple posts on Instagram and Reddit calling it the Zohramp, and it’s a testament to just doing things. Just do things. Let’s daylight some intersections and implement the Grand Army Plaza redesign that’s been in limbo for years.