🎉 It's official, we saved Chicago's intercity bus terminal! Today, Chicago City Council voted to purchase our former Greyhound terminal to establish a publicly-owned intercity bus terminal. This is a massive victory, and a testament to the years of organizing that brought us here today!

SEPTA New Bus Network Phase 1 starts this August and to illustrate that there are new SEPTA transit maps! These have been in the works for over a year. wwww.septa.org/initiatives/...

The reason I find the route number nonsense so sad is that it's such a clear symbol of the dysfunctional decision-making inside septa. Someone decided there should be an oval around the route number so they shrunk the number to fit the oval without considering: smaller number = harder to read

Again, wtf is up with SEPTA purposely shrinking the route numbers on their bus stops to less than half the size so you can't read them from across the street? This is like if they started trenching low level RR platforms lower into the ground because reasons. It's actually insane.

Trump's birthday attendees were all standing around a giant metal dome in a thunderstorm. God really blew it with this one.

If you care about actually improving transit in St. Louis, a serious campaign is underway to speed up the highest ridership bus route in the entire state (70 Grand). Please show Metro that we want a better 70: tinyurl.com/betterbuseso...

lol, Stephanie Wiggins is now a substacker. open.substack.com/pub/moonshot...

I think it's super weird that every time LA Metro extends a record request, they say it's because the records are in a different office. Yeah, no shit. You're the records office! Does anyone else think this is super weird or is there something I'm not getting here? (other than the records, lol)

@piero.bsky.social has acquired the secret files! NJT sold 91 of these and 90 were adult size.

I want to open a kiosk beside the ultra budget airline gates that sell cargo vests for $50

Back to the old pastime: checking in on all the whacky stuff Amtrak is cookin' up at the 30th St yard.

Woe to the damned souls attempting to bring these big 'ol BULBUS-ass backpacks onto Frontier Airlines as personal items! $99 fee gets 'em every time.

Gambled my connection at LAS for some smooth, rubber-tired, linear induction action.

Cool articulated and varied-material facade, bro.

There's one hidden factor that, IMO, explains most of why transit ridership has fallen so much in most US regions since 1990. It's obvious once you notice it, but almost never will transit advocates talk about what is basically their single greatest obstacle. Let's name it in 3, 2, 1...

I just want to give some appreciation for Henry Mantel's inspiring yimby challenge to Yaroslavsky. He didn't lose because he was wrong. He lost because the working families displaced by LA's government-engineered housing shortage don't get to vote in CD5... because they can't live there anymore!!

Road Guy Rob: "The more people use [microtransit], probably the faster it gets because you can keep the bus going." Uhhhhhhhh, who's gonna tell him. 🫤 youtu.be/QI1yM9mzCAE

Are you a politician who strapped your entire campaign to a counterproductive meme policy and want out? Ask your doctor about: Just Stop Talking About It And Hope Everyone Forgets™ Tell your doctor if you experience electoral dysfunction or thoughts of career suicide. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

92% of the $6.3M of Kalshi money on the mayoral race is on Bass/Raman. I'm going to OD on hopium.

Yesterday, SCAG made a really dumb SB 79 mapping decision that will lead to: 1) Lawsuits 2) Funding uncertainty for the K Line Northern extension 3) Ironically, taller buildings in Sherman Oaks

Dream scenario: Fans have assembled a WhatsApp group where they are planning a vigilante barricading and land invasion via Paterson Plank Rd. Nightmare scenario: Thousands think they have all independently discovered the once-hourly 160 bus from PABT and will just take that.

Copium ---> Hopium

I don't think NJ transit understands how transit works? What do you mean "just a 9 minute drive"? Using what car?

lmao

I suspect the main issue is that Karen Bass was endorsed by basically everyone. Most of city council, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schiff, Padilla. LA County Dems. If basically every democrat says to vote for her, that's very persuasive to a lot of people! www.karenbass.com/endorsements

While we simmer with anxiety about the election results process, there’s a very important meeting tomorrow about SB79 applicability and here’s how you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/sb-7...

accurate

On the bright side, now Toyota (or whatever) won't have to invent the world's most indestructible catalytic converter. [screaming myself to sleep]

People I respect tell me Tom Steyer is a fraud projecting a fake persona. But also, his fake persona is almost an exact match to my policy preferences, so let's just keep the charade going.

Check out this project I made last year. It's a map of the car free percent of college grads under 65 across the US. It's a map of car-free living popularity without the confounding variables of class/income and age. To my knowledge, it's the first of its kind! public.tableau.com/views/Percen...

Phoenix is the same thing. On paper, there should be way more ridership and I think it's mainly parking availability. I think there's a really large percentage of the population who won't ride transit unless there's like no parking. In IE and Phoenix, transit has to compete without this advantage.

The general chaotic lawlessness of the Trump administration would be a great opportunity to gene drive these evil screwworms into the history books... if they hadn't been mass firing the government scientists who would know how to do it.

The era of cities saying “no” to building housing and facing no consequences is over. If you don’t build, the state will hold you accountable!

KTown has two hours left to get the tasty Indonesian food.

... how is NJT itself on fire what the fuck

NYC protesters about to discover the NJT 25 has 27 unique service patterns and there's no map except maybe, possibly in my apartment.

I'm going!

UPenn economist thinks that declining birth rates will let us demolish all the "horrible high-rises". lol 🤦 I'm eternally fascinated by how across so many backgrounds, elite middle-aged people nearly all independently converge on "tall buildings bad". Even in the transit sector, which is crazy!!

presidential poasting finally starting to get good again

Apparently since 2006, LA Metro has minted 45M TAP cards. That means they averaged 6,160 cards per day and they've made 4.6 per LA County resident. metro.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

So far, so good. 🤞🤞

When building its rail system, Denver had one response to nimbys: go around. This created a sparesly used rail system that avoids density. BRT is being pitched as the solution, but it won't be if Denver just creates a rubber-tired replica of the exact same problem. denverite.com/2026/05/22/d...

"Don't fall down the YIMBY pipeline" [falls down left-nimby tanki pipeline]

Reading these deranged listings does in fact make me feel like America is under attack. So mission accomplished.

How you vote when you just want tall buildings and transit:

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers