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If one wanted to drive transformative modal shift in New York or anywhere, one would combine congestion pricing, street parking pricing, and employer/government transit fare subsidy. The latter is a ways away, but making progress on the first two, apparently:
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/m...
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Mamdani Deputy Mayor On Charging For Street Parking: 'It's Not a No' - Streetsblog New York City
Dean Fuleihan said on Thursday that the city is discussing charging fees for currently free on-street parking.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/mamdani-deputy-mayor-on-charging-for-street-parking-its-not-a-no
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“It was said that whole mansions in Westchester County were built with materials stolen from Co-op City.”
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Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
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“People used to tell me that explaining jokes ruins them. But I enjoy it. Telling people why things are funny can be funny too.”
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We are talking A Better Billion at NYU Marron next week. Housing + Subway Expansion is catnip for New Yorkers. Definite cameos from
@27a01.bsky.social
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@vanshnookenraggen.com
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@eensari.bsky.social
, and
@ndhapple.bsky.social
. We will have food and beverages. Please join us!
luma.com/ub7q20a6
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A Better Billion: Expanding transit and housing for a more affordable New York · Luma
Event Description During the mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani repeatedly promised to tackle New York City’s affordability crisis. One of his signature campaign…
https://luma.com/ub7q20a6
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“The highway’s final cost came to $238 million, about six times the 1946 estimate, of almost $2 billion in today’s dollars, for 6.5 miles of highway.”
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For everyone who asks us to do roads: “At first, planners estimated the Cross Bronx’s projected total cost at $38,670,000. When work had been underway for about a year, the estimate went up to $60 million.”
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Nolan Hicks
11 days ago
A BETTER BILLION, AMA: This is the latest report from the Transit Costs Project. It sought to take all the work we've done on subway construction and push it forward into a vision of what could/should be possible in NYC with a steady source of funding --
transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
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A Better Billion
https://transitcosts.com/a-better-billion.html
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Franklin Tang
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We at the Transit Cost Project are hosting an event on our most recent report, "A Better Billion", at 370 Jay St in Brooklyn on March 4th. If you are interested in hearing about the planning proposal in person and ask your burning questions on the report, RSVP on Luma here:
luma.com/ub7q20a6
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THE CITY
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LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/18/b...
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LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
Get THE CITY sent right to your inbox.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/18/better-billion-subways-nyu-marron-mamdani-litnyc-podcast/
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen
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Happy our project is getting some local news love.
@egoldwyn.bsky.social
@ndhapple.bsky.social
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Expanding subways more pro-affordability than free buses, report says
The new report comes from the NYU Marron Institute.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/02/19/expanding-subways-more-pro-affordability-than-free-buses--report-says
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Look how much Canadians hate the United States now
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Look how much Canadians hate the United States now
It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/5-charts-show-just-how-badly-the-us-has-torpedoed-its-relationship-with-canada-00787084?_sp_pass_consent=true
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“Canadians were the most likely — among respondents in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. — to say the U.S. is not a reliable ally (58 percent).”
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Look how much Canadians hate the United States now
It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/5-charts-show-just-how-badly-the-us-has-torpedoed-its-relationship-with-canada-00787084
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@galvinalmanza.bsky.social
I read your op-ed, congrats! I wanted to ask if the person you defended was a bus or subway rider? The set up suggested a bus rider, but the precise phrase you used was “public transit.” Thank you
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21 days ago
Seamless Bay Area on Service-Led Planning and how it can help regional network management in the Bay, including: 1. Better transfers; 2. Incremental upgrades to speed, reliability and frequency; 3. More cost effective capital project selection and development.
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2026/2/...
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Greg Shill
23 days ago
✨ introducing… ✨ 🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅 "Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred. Transportation is the binding constraint.
ssrn.com/abstract=538...
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Let’s go!
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Christof Spieler
26 days ago
Since we're crayoning: Here's a challenge. Pick a metro area. You can build 10 miles subway, 20 miles elevated rail, or 40 miles at grade (street, freeway, rail ROW) rail (or any suitably weighted combination.) Where do you put it for max ridership? How do you adjust the bus network to work with it?
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Nolan Hicks
25 days ago
Very excited to say that the stars have aligned and NYU Marron/Transit Costs Project have landed a grant that will fund a second edition of Momentum, which will apply the high-throughput framework to major regional rail networks beyond the NY area. Our three big new cases: - NJT - SEPTA - METRA
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“But having read more non-fiction about whaling after my “Moby Dick” re-read, I now know this is not true.”
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There’s more
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It is amazing what gets into the public domain:
about 1 month ago
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And
@ndhapple.bsky.social
. This was his idea!!!!
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Our A Better Billion report is up on our site. It’s a great site.
@27a01.bsky.social
,
@eensari.bsky.social
,
@vanshnookenraggen.com
, and
@alonlevy.bsky.social
did a great job:
transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
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A Better Billion
https://transitcosts.com/a-better-billion.html
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Citylab and
@benschneider.bsky.social
covered A Better Billion, too. They also had the wisdom to include the killer gif
@27a01.bsky.social
made showing how the system expands over time.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Forget Free NYC Buses: Just Build 41 Miles of New Subways
Fare-free bus service in New York City would cost around $1 billion per year. A new report proposes spending that on a “transformative” transit expansion instead.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/instead-of-free-nyc-buses-planners-propose-41-mile-subway-expansion
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“The public kept expecting Necker’s brilliance to save the country, and he kept not saving it and being reappointed and refired.”
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Franklin Tang
about 1 month ago
It has been fun working on the A Better Billion project over the last couple of months. You can check out the full StoryMap here:
transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
Also the gift article link to the NYT coverage of our plan;
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyregion/mamdani-free-buses-subway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA.SBU4.z65Ba8_f_83I
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Nolan Hicks
about 1 month ago
I am now off the clock, so I am officially, formally, incredibly thrilled that 'A Better Billion' is now in the world. And it's absolutely surreal to help with something that ends up with a feature in The New York Times. --
transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
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A Better Billion
https://transitcosts.com/a-better-billion.html
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Alon (they/them)
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We're proud to present A Better Billion: how New York should be spending an extra $1b a year on subway expansion, in lieu of Zohran Mamdani's free bus proposal.
transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
See gift article for a New York Times writeup here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyregion/mamdani-free-buses-subway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA.SBU4.z65Ba8_f_83I&smid=nytcore-android-share
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41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyregion/mamdani-free-buses-subway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA._SfC.rx8DMpMK19DT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Lots of great stuff in this
@davecolon.bsky.social
joint. Just yesterday I was thinking the vote for best New Yorker was between David Stearns and Zohran Mamdani. Janno said, hold my baseball book babe ruth’s widow.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/21/i...
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INTERVIEW: MTA Chair Janno Lieber Talks to Streetsblog to Mark Four Years at the Top - Streetsblog New York City
MTA chairman Janno Lieber sat down with Streetsblog for an in-depth interview about his tenure, congestion pricing, buses and more.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/21/interview-mta-chair-janno-lieber-talks-to-streetsblog-to-mark-four-years-at-the-top
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“Simcoe was that rare Britisher, apparently, who saw the advantage of not wearing red uniforms in forest combat.”
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The ultimate sign of bookstore class and erudition
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Jose Martinez
about 2 months ago
HARDHAT HOCHUL: Guv’s transit ambitions could put MTA on track for biggest expansion in decades “She’s building a transit legacy for herself.” NEW Sunday read in
@thecity.nyc
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/18/t...
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With Multiple Train Megaprojects Ahead, Hochul Builds Her ‘Transit Legacy’
The governor has hopes of planning and potentially building multiple transit-system extensions at once.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/18/transit-projects-hochul-mta-development/
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Marco Chitti
about 2 months ago
Folks, any help with populating this map of bus and tram boarding policies in South America would be most welcome! I suspect that 99% of cities are front-door boarding-only outside of BRT systems (so B*) and eventually trams (the few existing systems) but I'd appreciate more detail!
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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...
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https://www.mta.info/document/196361
about 2 months ago
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When I start a burner account this will be my profile picture. HT:
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“The subways created the modern Bronx and the highways almost destroyed it.”
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“The achievements of government in Chicago at times rivaled the feats of the Old Testament God.”
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“The Chicago fire of 1871 destroyed an estimated fifteen thousand buildings, devastated three and one-half square miles in the heart of the city, and drove sixty-eight insurance companies into liquidation.”
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Nolan Hicks
2 months ago
Really fascinating look at what the IBX could mean for Brooklyn and Queens by a team at Hunter College/CUNY --
www.hunterurban.org/wp-content/u...
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https://www.hunterurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IBX-TOD-Pres.pdf
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“Mr. Adams was required by law…to create 150 miles of bus lanes with barriers or camera enforcement and 250 miles of protected bike lanes over 5 years, a task that now falls to Mr. Mamdani….In the last 4 years, the city installed about 28 miles of bus lanes and 95 miles of protected bike lanes.”
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Alon (they/them)
2 months ago
Pedestrian Observations: Fare Practices
pedestrianobservations.com/2025/12/31/f...
With thanks to people who helped populate the table:
@joao-paulouro.bsky.social
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@borners.bsky.social
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@egoldwyn.bsky.social
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@chittimarco.bsky.social
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Fare Practices
Here’s a table of urban public transport fares for various cities, covering the United States, Canada, parts of Europe, Turkey, and Japan. Included are single fares, multi-ride discounts, day…
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2025/12/31/fare-practices/
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Nolan Hicks
2 months ago
A PROGRAMMING ALERT (8pm eastern) =>
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Yonah Freemark
8 months ago
Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit. Research suggests that free transit: a—increases ridership b—doesn't get people out of cars c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl d—doesn't add employment e—maybe ups operational efficiency
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sick public transit, gloria
2 months ago
in 2024, Seoul Metro's busiest Line 2 completed its tech transfer to ATO and began looking into converting Line 2 into a single-crew operation, as is done for Lines 5,6,7,8. Seoul Metro's largest labor union balked, claiming major safety risks for both employees and riders. 🧵
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“[IRT & BRT] would be paid a sum equal to the profit they were getting from existing lines (14-15%) plus 6% on their investment. They would take this ‘preferential’ payment, intended to reduce the risk of expanding into thinly populated areas, out of operating revenues before the city got a dime.”
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“You could lead an iron horse to water, it turned out, but you couldn’t make it cross.”
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I know there’s a lot of TWU heat because of the recent veto in Albany. I am looking forward to reading Marc Kagan’s new book on the more recent history of the TWU. Marc, I believe, has paid for the book to be completely open access when it comes out:
brill.com/display/titl...
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https://brill.com/display/title/73488
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Legislating train operations from Albany always seemed like a bad idea:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Hochul Expected to Veto Bill Requiring 2-Person Crews on Subway Trains
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyregion/hochul-mta-conductors-twu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.dnZL.MihuuvFe9kUX&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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