Trying not to crash out now that I’m home The sidewalks are too narrow the trains are too narrow it took an hour to travel a 25 minute drive and there’s a stupid robot on the sidewalk trying to blind me with headlights

Some of my favorite bench dedications at Central Park

Very proud of myself for walking 100km the last few days in NYC. After I get home I shall sit down and consider never standing up again

Say it with me now: we should invest in capital projects that bend the operating cost curve

I found a lil Ravenswood-like in Manhattan

My project is to make every street some variation of this

New York isn’t real man

BIG BIRD FRIEND BIG BIRD FRIEND

Support tax increases at the state level specifically to insulate us from federal bullshit

*Taking the train is demonstrably, statistically safer than taking a car

I was ambivalent, bordering on becoming a New York hater after walking from Queens to the Bronx Zoo. Having walking down Manhattan, now I get it. Place lives up to the hype.

This could be us but our zoning code be playin :(

I hate when I'm walk commuting but the sidewalk is all taken over by recreational pedestrians

New York impresses the moment you get out at Penn. What do you MEAN there are three platforms at one subway station

Me randomly in any city: "These sidewalks should be way bigger."

Old steam locomotive in Utica, New York

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

Good system. #PlowtheSidewalks

My champion arrives on a noble steed to take me away from this accursèd place

Mission accomplished

Going around the whole Loop because I forgot which direction my train takes in it

NITA lift?

Hey, you promised 40 before. Where did the other 10 FN routes go Nora

Kalamazoo mentioned! Minor increase in funding, hope it’s enough to get a bus that runs more than twice an hour

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Did you hear the mayor of New York City raced a bus once and be won, because my man WALKS

I bestow a heart upon each and every self congratulatory post about progressive victories tonight

honestly first Illinois transit funding and now this. We are so back.

I can replace one (1) outgoing New York billionaire. Please mail me the keys and leave the deed to your penthouse on the counter

Whiskey from the outskirts of the city Subourbon

*More* photos of random sidewalks? Well, if you insist.

Tandem bike is multiple unit working. In this essay I will

Bae’s ball

35 kilometer walk from West Loop to Ravenswood and back les gooooooo

I’m at the Divvy station I’m at the modal filter I’m at the combination Divvy station modal filter

*slaps incoming CTA budget* This bad boi can fit so many new bus drivers in it

My frents, we have #RevenuesAndReform

SB 2111 passes and transit is saved and now it is time to go to bed

so it keeps coming up that a previous transport apropriation had 55% of the spend going downstate And maybe just one rep could mention that that’s absolutely nuts for like ~30% of the population to get. An absurd subsidy extracted from Chicagoland

Senator DeWitte asks if NITA board, freshly infused with cash, could get a supermajority (15 out of 20 seats) together to cut service to the suburbs without any collar county input. Why on earth would anyone want to do that is an inquiry he leaves unexplored

“It’s late. I ask you to vote aye” What a mood

SB2111, the transit funding and reform bill with a tollway sidequest, passes the House.

We could have taxes like a normal democracy, yes, but what if instead the transportation system relied on predatory gambling computer?

One incredible feature of the legislative process is that every time you pass a bill that amends a law, you are, in fact, changing a deal made in the past.

3 minute timer for the rest of the speakers? Are you telling me we could have limited the time Rep Spain spent inflicting Rep Spain upon the world

Every Illinois Republican seems simultaneously confounded and indignant at all times. I have no idea what’s going on but also here’s an extremely specific hypothetical about how this would be bad for me Seems like an exhausting shtick

Aaaand we’re back

Have all voted who wish Have all voted who wish Have all voted who wish

I’m doing a thread and none of you fools can stop me Quick disclaimer: I have no relevant credentialed expertise to speak of here. If my read of the bill is contradicted by Streetsblog or something tomorroww, believe them.

It should be acknowledged at some point that part of the reason ICE is able to operate so easily in Chicago is because by design our streets were already full of massive vehicles driven way too fast by sociopathic freaks