A good thread on how The Groups have subsumed many party responsibilities. And, very relatedly, The Groups now look out for themselves and not The Party (or the system).
Relatedly, New York politics, New York unions, work rules and the pattern.
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That’s how he built his empire
53rd was covered in the QBL system, 63rd is going in the 6th Ave
Was digging through the archives today and found a Robert Moses in exile (Randall’s Island) plan to pull the West Side Highway off the Hudson from 70s to the 50s and convert it into a riverside park after it collapsed in the 1970s. Predicted Riverside South some 20 years ahead of its time.
The pattern exists for a reason and abandoning it is pretty quick way to vaporize the city budget
KEIR? STALLER!
also ah AHEM
The live transfer tracker on the new MTA app
Very good app
East Side Access in some form/function had been *the* ask since Rockefeller dreamt it up
The Program for Action
IN MY HANDS
Yea looks like it
Loooool (yes, but also it’s a picture of the No5)
(And that 1M is for the Lexington Ave subway alone.)
That’s just the Lex
QBL Express is now actually express.
Or hear me out, couch car on the LIRR
CBTC has the F racing thru the 53rd St tunnel
The LIRR M9 at Jamaica
No tank to fill up, wave at the traffic jams on the LIE as you race past, catch up on your reading, play the wordle
Fun fact: New York State’s justification for rescuing the LIRR in the 1960s was that replacing the peak direction capacity in from Jamaica to Manhattan would have required building 26 lanes worth of tunnels under the East River. Twenty six.
Lemme introduce you to my chariot, which moves 1 million butts per day.
Re-introducing geared transmissions to maximize efficiency is also quite clever, well done MB
Don't love an all touch-screen dash/control panel and I don't particularly love the very VW Passat rear tail lights, but 473 miles worth of range is quite the feat. Hope they get this over stateside asap.
400+ miles worth of range will get some uptake.
no it's a good bit more than that, gimme a sec to post
Quite astute in that by the time something makes it to the desk of the Prime Minister (or mayor or governor or president) it is an item for which the usual processes have already failed to solve for it. Hence, the buck stopping.
Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:
Vermont Ave is a 'should be a subway and we should start digging it today' case-in-point
:eyes emoji:
for each of several needed infrastructure items, and then to be able to sum up each of those into a price tag for the collective route.