Today, CER launches our paper “ElectroLink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California.” ElectroLink shows how electrification, level boarding and through running can speed up trips, improve access for all riders, and bind together the region. ⚡♿🚴 calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Once again, it seems that the MTA's EAGLE teams are punishing normal riders because they are not using the common fare verification tools (handheld scanners) used by almost every other proof-of-payment system in the world. www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/co...

TIL parking restrictions date back to 700 BCE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...

Development in NYC is heavily clustered, either in already-dense areas (Midtown) or recently rezoned areas (Long Island City + Downtown Brooklyn). New developments since 2015 with more than 200 units, completion state as of 2025 (green = COO, red = no COO yet) (Interactive map, link below)

New York is a special place in a lot of ways, but that doesn't include the reality of how transportation works. Cities all over the world have long moved to one-person and fully automated trains. Indeed, we do it in NY right now on the G & M trains, with no effect on safety.

I urge companies to take funding contributors seriously, in ways that aren’t tied to projects and goals. Being a generalist in the compiler meant that often I wasn’t working towards a roadmap, but my contributions *always* paid off in the long term extensibility of the language.

Capitalism is when you're good at building car, Communism is when you're good at building train. This is why the Soviet Union was Communist, Japan and China are mixed economies, and why America was capitalist but now is feudal.

The future of Queens shouldn’t cater to a select few. Communities should decide how we forge a better borough. Use our letter writing tool below to tell local elected leaders that Queens doesn’t want an anti-transit scheme. We need QueensLink NOW!

ICYMI, I can now add "Android Developer" to my LinkedIn profile, as Subway Now @subwaynow.app (formerly The Weekendest) now has an Android app! Download now on Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

7. Which is why they'd like to -- if feasible, environmental clearances are obtained, etc -- keep the TBM going across town and there's a study under way about that rn. 8. Otherwise, the tunneling cost is the TBM procurement and then the short tunnel from 120/2nd to 125/Lenox

11. Back to the tunnel, they've made a big deal of reducing the number of cross-hatches (essentially tunnnels knocked into the twin bores linking them together) from six to two. The costs savings aren't huge ($60m), but the risk reduction is pretty massive.

3: The 125th Street station's back of house square-footage was cut in half. Much of the remainder has been moved into the ancillaries. 4: The 116th St station box is now entirely within the footprint of the existing tunnel that was dug in the 1970s, and the mezzanine has been cut in half.

It's good that the MTA plans to upgrade the notorious DeKalb Interlocking, but the project could be made much simpler by deinterlining the B/D/N/Q. This would not only improve service but also save construction and maintenance costs by obviating redundant, expensive wayside signals.

In which the independent engineering consultants hired by VTA accuse the VTA of sandbagging efforts to trim back the design of the BART-to-San Jose extension. PDF pg 111 -- santaclaravta.iqm2.com/Citizens/Fil...

Just up on Streetsblog NY: A Crucial Course Correction Shows the MTA is Thinking Big For the IBX nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/11/i...

Here’s a cool thing: the MTA is looking at untangling the DeKalb interlocking in its upcoming B/D/F/M train signal upgrades instead of doing it later during N/Q/R/W signal work nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/11/t...

MTA officials calling the IBX “a light metro project" rather than simply “light rail" represents a significant semantic shift.

Big news from the MTA: building the IBX as "light metro" is absolutely the right call. Light metro would allow for fast, frequent, automated trains—especially important for a circumferential line. Kudos to the MTA; we will keep fighting to build the IBX right. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/11/i...

Please email Kathy Hochul and tell her this. She will ultimately be making the decision. The union is going to lobby hard against driverless, so the governor needs to hear from New Yorkers that we want better service and lower costs: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

Today Hochul and the MTA confirmed that the planned end-to-end runtime of the IBX has been cut a full 10 min (down to 32min), and projected ridership is up 41k to 160k/day. This is the power of grade separation and the All Faiths tunnel. Kudos to the Gov and MTA! www.youtube.com/live/EhaB99v...

NEW: For the past few years, it looked like Queens would get a linear park, instead of badly-needed mass transit. But now a project that would bring a new subway line & a park to Queens just got a lifeline—and may have a champion in the next mayor of New York City. hellgatenyc.com/queensway-de...

This is a summary map of boarding practices for the European cities for which I received answers. If you know how they board buses in a city not on this map, or if you spot an error, please add the info in the replies! 🙏 (other continents will follow)

The MTA is intending to end the 30-day unlimited pass. This is a bad idea for New York that goes against international best practices. While NYC's 30-day pass is far too expensive, monthly passes both give transit agencies regular, recurring revenue and encourage transit usage for more trips.

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

Since transit twitter has moved here. A friend forwarded this onto me. Have a good idea? 2k to write about it! ifp.org/call-for-pro...

A bill passed by the NYS Legislature banning One-Person Train Operation goes against best practices both across the country and world, and would leave New York’s transit system far behind its peers. ETA asks Gov Hochul to not allow this regressive bill to become law. www.etany.org/statements/i...

👀👀👀 Redesigned street-level countdown clock screens

I regret to inform you that after decades of trying, it appears that the anti-OPTO bill the TSA has been pushing finally passed the Senate and Assembly in Albany. I do not know if the governor plans to enact this bill or veto it or if it will even make it to her desk.

The MTA is planning to replace the LIRR's 40+ year old M3 trains, but the new cars it's planning on ordering come with a critical flaw: they don't support overhead power. This oversight would prevent less expensive electrification and regional travel. Read more: www.etany.org/statements/t...

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

F/M Swap is official! www.mta.info/document/176...

1. Today, SCOTUS allowed for bans on trans care in a devastating, though limited, ruling in Skrmetti. It ruled discrimination against gender dysphoria is not trans discrimination, and used the same rationale used by VA to defend its interracial marriage ban. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The National Academies just put out a big paper on the future of commuter rail and how to rethink it, and a lot of what’s in there echos Sandy’s work, and Alon’s work. With pushback (unconvincing) from all the usual suspects — nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2912...

Zohran YIMBY arc let’s gooooo

The fact that she refuses to admit the seasonality requirement in the outdoor dining bill was a poison pill for the program citywide is a big ding against her.

SAS Phase 2 going with an under-station mezzanine and NO stairs/escalators to the surface is a bold move, Cotton.

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate floor! Learn more:

FM SWAP, WHAT UP! rooseveltislander.com/2025/06/03/m...

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams released a report Tuesday on Congestion Pricing, noting that QueensLink and other transit expansions in the outer boroughs are “critical” to the success of the program.

Andy Byford has been selected to take over the reconstruction of Penn Station. An expert of the first tier, he is well versed with through-running has spoken of its importance for Penn before. Still, the project faces many challenges. Read our statement: www.etany.org/statements/c...

We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

BREAKING: Trump administration's effort to stop NYC's congestion pricing is blocked, as Judge Lewis Liman, a Trump appointee, issues a 109-page opinion granting a preliminary injunction to the challengers defending the congestion pricing program. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The 2025-2029 MTA Capital Plan needs to get MTA Board approval again now that it's funded, so it's going in front of the board again tomorrow. One interesting addition to it is the MTA now says it's taking care of the Nostrand Junction bottleneck in this plan

The MTA has been granted a TRO preventing the federal government from taking retaliatory measures to force the agency to turn off congestion pricing

OK ridership numbers have been updated. 1 has worsened (lol) from 64,798 to 63k. 3 has worsened (LOL) from 86,013 to 82k. 4 has *improved* (L O L) from 120,546 to 123k, and 5 has improved from 121,624 to 124k. 6 is virtually identical.