Train Station Benches Labeled "Remove" Inside a Cage

MTA, mixed media, 2026

Is it too soon to ask whether these elevators will be designed with the future 2nd Ave Subway extension in mind?

What if Columbia and the MTA spend tens of millions of dollars for elevators here, only to have to knock them down and rebuild them in the context of a new underground Q station?

🧠 Fluid ops, so Glenbrook flyover and turnback tracks

🧠🧠🧠🧠 CANOPY 🤤

lmao neither Gillibrand nor Schumer are on here

relative to baseline partisanship NY might have the worst democratic senators in the country

Unironically move the Final to Philly at this point

It’s dumber than you think; the exits *are* numbered—with tiny placards!

New York City Council’s main policy goal with regards to supermarkets is to keep Walmart out of the city so that Gristedes can stay in business and John Catsimatidis can keep stealing New Yorkers’ money to donate to Donald Trump. These people will help anybody but their constituents.

Groups urge Albany to reject NYC transit union’s 2-person subway crew push An alliance of business groups, government watchdogs and transit advocates is calling on state lawmakers to reject the Transport Workers Union’s renewed push to enshrine two-person subway crews in sta...

We can take advantage of MTA's modern signaling and adopt the global norm if we adopt one-person train operation.

We have the chance to make this happen in Albany.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/01/groups-urge-a...

Caltrain peninsula 🤝 SEPTA Paoli-Thorndale line
Horrific office sprawl oriented away from the single wealthiest transit corridor

In Mountain View this morning and wandering why we don’t have SB 79 for office space near transit.

Because the auto-centric job dispersal continues in spite of rail electrification.

Should Rich New Yorkers Get Free Stuff, Too? Mamdani Says Yes.

Boy, what a terrible headline.

We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

Fine, but I thought even Europe doesn't mill its own high-speed rail.

No dispute that permitting is a disaster, but the cap-and-trade money isn't going anywhere and is far from nothing.

There's also high projected costs for things that aren't politically contentious *cough* track laying, which tells me there's unpicked cost containment fruit.

Janeese Lewis George, GGWash's pick for DC mayor, outlines her plan to build more housing in the District.

The goal is for senators not too hear whining from the State Highway director.

Remplacement des installations caténaires sur le RER C Depuis novembre 2021, SNCF Réseau réalise le remplacement des installations caténaires de la ligne C entre Paris et Juvisy sur Orge. Ce chantier s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un projet de grande envergure...

Catenary replacement at night—it’s a thing.

Oh did I cause a couple heads to explode over there at Amtrak? My b. www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/travaux/i...

It’s worth noting that a lot of places have been going through with eminent domain anyway for any TOD(-lite) whatsoever because the economics of IBC-compliant double stairwell designs, not to mention locally mandated parking, favor huge floor plates.

I’m not under any pretense that every job in America can be relocated to a transit shed, but there’s tons of office and medical and lab jobs in the boonies that can get moved. That’s basically how NYC’s transit ridership recovered—total Manhattan employment rebounded.

There’s honestly a very strong case for transit advocacy in America to make sure serious amounts of jobs and school seats get re-homed by the transit we already have before endorsing a single new line outside of IBX, SAS, Geary, and maybe Roosevelt.

I think this is true but we should prepare for the possibility that there's gonna be a pretty massive concerted media push to prop Trump up in the lead-up to the midterms in a way that wasn't true in 2018 or 2006

Where should the MBTA look for ideas? For Phil Eng, it’s Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore. - The Boston Globe MBTA general manager Phil Eng traveled to Asia for a two-week transit junket in November, shortly after he took on a second role as the state's interim transportation secretary, records obtained by th...

Tokyo ain't buying battery locomotives.

Tokyo ain't building bus yards next to rail hubs.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/27/m...

American firefighters will go to the mat to oppose a four-story, eight-unit apartment building with one stair because the sprinklers could fail, and then tell you with a straight face that this is safer if that happens

pure “consensus” is impossible, someone is always going to be mad at you

the question as a Mayor is who you’d rather have be mad at you:
-a motorist mad that they have to pay slightly more for parking
-a grieving parent whose kid was killed by a motorist

weird that Michelle Wu chose the latter

I started my career in Massachusetts in the Deval Patrick era and every project I worked on was made worse by attempting to build a consensus that was never going to happen because someone is always going to be mad at you. This is a very common thing in blue states and cities…

The media’s hugely skewed to the right, but literally any effort whatsoever on the part of the Democrats to remind people why they’re in the shape they’re in would go a long way to counteracting that.

Yeah this isn’t it. This is a regressive tax cut that shortchanges the programs the poorest Americans depend on.

Way too little discussion of the value of people's time is happening. Even when I was making $32k a year, I was using Zipcars, and my friends had their own wheels. I'd have happily paid a $4 fare for 10-minute service 7 days a week in lieu of the free shitty service the Yale Shuttle ran/runs.

City Advocates For Yale Shuttle-Public Bus Merger - New Haven Independent The Elicker administration is in early-stage talks with Yale and CT Transit about integrating university shuttles into the public bus system, according to the mayor and the city's transportation direc...

Former Yale Shuttle rider here--please merge it into the public bus system and charge whatever fare is needed to run 10-minute service.
www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/c...

Lemar Changes Mind On Free Buses - New Haven Independent State Rep. Roland Lemar has changed his mind about making buses free. Now, he’s on board. “Over time,” he said Thursday, “I’ve gotten to a point where I'm no longer comfortable justifying that the $1....

This is so depressing to read. Lemar just sounds beaten down by the state not giving one iota about buses.

We know the right things to do, and the complete refusal by anyone with power to actually do them just blows. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/03/13/l...

Choosing the alignment with 26% more travel time on the most important transfer segment but only 18% more trips, 10 more construction years AND the worst B/C ratio. Serving jobs is great but the network has to make sense, and this will preclude the ideal scenario of a dedicated SM Blvd line