Former Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino is not only a racist fascist, he's too stupid to understand induced demand.

The entire point of the Streets Master plan with binding goals, and the legally mandated Street Safety Checklist - is that those legislated actions by the council as a whole should overrule a single council member's objection, or a single community boards objection when it comes to improving safety.

I am heartily sick of "Silicon Valley invented the bus again!" discourse. Yes tech "founders" are mostly creepy and elitist and don't have anyone else's best interest in mind. But buses suck and scaling up transit service is challenging. We should check it out when people find promising solutions.

The highway expansion you committed $30 mil to is going to impact actual residents of south Philly and save drivers maybe 1 minute for about a year. How about you commit that money to SEPTA instead of a project that nobody here wants, that was pushed through in a deceitful way by PENNDOT?

This is backwards, the concept of air travel as an affordable option rather than its demise was the sign of systemic failure. The inherent energy inefficiency of flight and practical requirement to rent a car or a long taxi ride from many airports imposes high costs. Subsidies for it favor the rich

This bill prioritizes highways over rail and transit infrastructure, omits guardrails to protect the funds from interference from the Trump administration, and worsens the climate emergency.

Samuelsen has been trending this way for ages, and it should really empower Hochul, who doesn’t need the TWU at all for reelection in this electoral environment, to push for real MTA work rule reforms. Ditch this stupid 2PTO these turncoats are pushing.

Don't know why this should be controversial on bsky: Alt text is good. It's okay for people to constructively remind public figures with lots of followers to use it. No, you should not block people who post reminders like that. No, you should not suggest that people block them.

Turns out we've also had "tiny houses" forever. We just made them illegal. We call them SROs - single-room occupancy apartments. We used to call them "welfare hotels" - shower down the hall. One of the biggest leadership challenges is banning a symptom, thinking it's the source of the problem.

A lot of replies being like “Wait something good!?” No you morons, republicans want to be able to allow chud truck drivers to speed through your neighborhood without consequence. You are a fucking sucker if you think congressional republicans care about privacy. This stupid country I swear to god.

Democrats really need to stop this “labor is always 100% correct no matter the actual details of the issue” nonsense. the other side of the negotiating table with the LIRR unions isn’t billionaire shareholders. it’s public servants protecting taxpayers from getting ripped off

When there isn't enough housing, it gets rationed, and in a world where lots of people own brownstones, we ration it by price. And thanks to the weight of racism and history, white people are richer on average. This is downstream of inadequate construction throughout NYC and the whole metro area.

NEW: Tesla has unexpectedly un-redacted the descriptions of its Robotaxi crashes, revealing at least two instances where teleoperators crashed while controlling the vehicles at low speeds. techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/t...

People’s idea of a “narrow” street is really skewed in this city. It’s a four lane road!

Robotaxi deadheading irritates residents and thickens congestion. Cities should tax the hell out of it.

This is when it becomes most clear that paint (and transient parked vehicles) aren’t true protection. Put concrete in the ground that doesn’t disappear when repaving happens.

D staff about transportation reauthorization: "We just want to clear this off our to do list." "This is the best we will ever do." "I view this as an academic exercise." The next Dangerous by Design comes out in June, showing how dangerous our roads are. This is not academic.

This while the #7 train is skipping stops in Woodside and Sunnyside. At least you can take the LIRR to Grand Central - unless there's a strike!

The highway system will collapse, but your gas will drop from $6.59/gallon to $6.41/gallon. Sounds like a deal.

“Schwally's attorney apologized for his client causing the crash and called him a handicapped driver whose right leg locked up on the gas pedal.” After pounding two bottles of hard liquor such that his BAC was 2x the legal limit. Throw the book at this monster.

Every year, politicians pledge to fix our "crumbling roads and bridges." Even when we give them enough money to do it, they don't. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/11/c...

The "phone call problems" persist. Today I changed trains at Grand Central, and a nice conductor informed me that the new City Ticket Day Passes issued for the Long Island Railroad are not valid for Metro-North and vice versa. This is the same public authority in the same state, with the SAME APP.

Upzone the cities to fight back against the gerrymander.

Making parking *meters* free is absolutely stupid. People with nowhere to go will just leave their cars there the entire time, zero turnover. If you have a large city-owned ramp, make that free if you must! But on-street parking being free is like worst / "greatest" hits 70s album urbanism.

Claire Valdez is running for Congress. We chatted about tearing down the BQE and FDR, and how NYC needs better bike lanes to the outer neighborhoods

Spending 3x as much on NYPD than on transit expansion efforts seems misguided to me. $25M for the SCOUT team $77M for 👮 $85M for subway platform barriers $25M for designs for a westward expansion of the 2nd Ave subway $50M for yet another redesign of Jamaica Station

We can see the schedules for milling and paving. That's great, @nyc-dot.bsky.social @rlynch23.bsky.social Now where's the thermoplast schedule? www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Not a nitpick at all! It's super common in discussions like this to conflate the minor effects of lots of people (crowding on trails, wait times at restaurants, unavailable hotels) with the major and often life-threatening effects of lots of cars (blocked roads, acres of parked cars, more crashes)!

I would love it and appreciate it if you all would tag me when you come across articles like this. Really anything touching on Car-free access to the outdoors, particularly for non-drivers but really broadly works, too. Thanks @capntransit.bsky.social

In the Adirondacks they're upset about the number of people who drive to trailheads. In New York City we're upset about the number of people who park cars on the street so they can drive to go hiking. The solution is convenient transit from the city to trailheads. but hardly anyone talks about it!

If fertilizer shortages can cause hunger, why would this farm economist advocate growing more of the corn used to feed cars instead? Because farmland, like car dealerships, is owned by some of the most evil people in America, united by MAGA and personal greed. An opposition party should crush both.

"who already uses Claude Code" - WTF? You used Claude Code for the rapid prototyping. That's done. You don't need someone who knows jack shit about Claude Code. You need someone who can write the app for you. And any coder can write it faster than Claude. fixhudsonlink.com/help

"For instance, the only way to spot a kid darting out from behind a truck, he said, is with cameras on every street watching for hazards, " Yes and the solution is to stop driving, or parking trucks, in cities! Toyota run by maniacs squeezing profits from ICE cars. arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05...

"The busy five-way Williamsburg intersection where a 9-year-old boy was killed by the driver of a school bus Friday morning lacked crosswalk markings at the time of the tragedy." Not the only reason this poor kid was killed, but re-marking has to happen much faster. gothamist.com/news/hectic-...

After all, Kate's thread shows that every person who is forced to move is an apartment that's available to someone who wants to move in. When you decrease the number of people who are forced to move out, moving in gets even harder.

The delineators create a safe corner. The actual corner designed for cars to turn through the crossing fast is the standard approved by @usdot.bsky.social and AASHTO. Common sense says that writing an obviously dangerous design into a manual shouldn't protect an agency from lawsuit.

Libs pretending that they can pay more for rural votes, ignoring both the history of Biden's administration and the actual challenges of gaining power. Democrats don't need to send more subsidies to rural areas. They need to break the power of local reactionary elites like car dealers.

Ohhhh I like this for campaign goals

I post this graphic all the time, but Bridgeport has 94% (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) fewer homes in downtown now than it did in 1913 (shown in green in the image) Highways and parking absolutely ate downtown and put its businesses in terrible positions

New York State Transportation Commissioner Dominguez proudly reports that Governor Hochul has "driven every road in the state." Hochul has probably actually been driven in the back of an Escalade, but imagine if instead we had a governor who had ridden every bus and train route in the state?

One thing that always strikes me about this 60 year old photos of NYC is just how many fewer cars there were. NYC made the streets too wide at a time when demand wasn't there, and they've filled up with too many cars in the intervening decades.

You cannot free up buses in NYC if you allow the following to double park: UPS/FedEx/Amazon Midsized delivery trucks Bridge and tunnel SUVs Entitled city drivers Store owners and employees Drivers just going in for a minute Sanitation trucks NYPD

40k+ people a year dying is a threat to national security, #bancars and miss me with this sinophobia

People actually do stuff on weekends @mta.info

Add “sitting at a table folding laundry” to the list of mundane, everyday activities people were doing before they were suddenly killed by a reckless driver. Strip malls with no bollards are terrifying.

The Mamdani administration has tapped a former top executive at Transportation Alternatives to spearhead the mayor’s effort to speed up the slowest buses in the nation and, eventually, make them free of fares. buff.ly/1dlL2Qe

Chuck Park is running for Congress as a champion of micromobility and transit

What good is NJ Transit if NJ workers can't take it? Also, if there are going to be so MANY problems with THE CITY, maybe we should have done planning? The framing around this is like "mass chaos," and we can't plan for it. So stay away. NY/C + NJ exceptionalism. gothamist.com/news/work-fr...

Sorry, but self-driving cars are still cars. They won't "de-center" autocentric streets; they'll reinforce them. Silicon Valley made a similar urbanist pitch about ridehail 15 years ago. Turns out, cities with ridehail have *more* cars and miles driven, not less. The same will be true of AVs.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...