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Climate advocate, queer, ranting against bullshit for over a decade.

Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit:

Reducing pollution
Increasing efficiency
Reducing carnage
Improving society
Access for all

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Anniversary blog post from May 14, 2012: The Interboro Express could be great, but what if we had started by just extending the G train to Brooklyn Army Terminal?

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-is-g-train-to-brooklyn-army.html

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RT @streetsblognyc A new report shows that the massive decline in NYPD ticket-writing to reckless drivers virtually ended the gains of Vision Zero:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/13/data-nypd-enforcement-now-in-decline-was-once-a-key-to-vision-zero-success

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RT @ridersalliance ! In a city where millions of residents don't own a car and primarily take transit, what sense does it make to spend billions of our tax dollars widening highways?

New Yorkers across the state deserve freedom from car dependency and the right to !

https://www.vocal-ny.org/resource/report-new-yorks-highway-heist/

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Monday's Most Read # 3 - Is this 661-square-foot home the future of housing? https://bit.ly/3JZXypS Fast Company

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@TheOverheadWire Spoiler: no.

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RT @thecharlier State DOTs: "Our fuel tax revenue is in danger. What shall we do?"
Every Analyst Ever: "You must replace fuel taxes with mileage fees; you should do it soon."
State DOTs: "But that will be controversial."
EAE: "Yes."
State DOTs: "Let's study it some more."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/05/09/michigan-road-funding-road-usage-charge-mileage-based-revenue/73630456007/

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@swope I'd hope so! Too bad so many urbanists only talk about freight trains when it's time to make excuses for our dependence on trucks!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2014/04/no-more-freight-hostages.html

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From the Empire State Passengers Association on Facebook:

Another good piece of news that neither NYS DOT nor 's press office want to tell you about. Gosh, this is so sad that we run our railroads this way.

https://www.thedailycatch.org/articles/amtrak-adds-a-new-sunday-round-trip-between-albany-and-new-york-city/

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@crzwdjk I hope puts Byford, or someone sane, in a position where he can fix these simple things, like publishing timetables and letting people board when the train is in the station!

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Anniversary blog post from May 13, 2009:

It's one thing for an individual to be able to live car-free. It's another thing for an entire municipality to exist without cars. There are actually four necessary conditions:

• Car-free existence within the municipality
• Residents can function car-free outside the municipality
• Critical mass of car-free individuals
• Car-free community structure

Spoiler: the New York Times's "experts" get them confused.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/05/living-carfree.html

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RT @regionalplan To close the projected housing gap in the region, we'd need to undertake the rate of development we saw post-WWII, Regional Plan and McKinsey found.

Read more in The Affordability Squeeze:

https://rpa.org/work/reports/impacts-ny-housing-crisis

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RT @meghanhoward08 Count me among the furious NJ TRANSIT riders. Personally, it's annoying for many of the common reasons given in the article. But I'm even angrier about this because of the impact it will have on my work.

At work, we provide a "transportation scholarship" to our students who income-qualify, in the form of bus or train tickets to get to our office for after-school and Saturday programming.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789051101951439112.html

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RT @philwalkable The BQE is room for 100,000 new homes, plus a new light rail line, AND express bus only lanes for commuters and delivery vehicles

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RT @kevinrbing They’re not. They just stall safety projects over and over again. They’re spending $23k for something in house staff in JC or elsewhere could do on their own. While they “study” people are gonna die.

https://hudsoncountyview.com/hudson-county-oks-measure-to-evaluate-pedestrian-protection-for-14th-st-viaduct/

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RT @bradleywthomas “No significant impact”

https://www.wcpo.com/news/transportation-development/brent-spence-bridge/brent-spence-bridge-project-clears-environmental-review-could-break-ground-in-coming-months

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RT @colleenallreds I asked Corbett about comparing to their in-house bus operations benchmark and what it would take to bring in-house. The Academy bid fell below their cost benchmark, indicating it’s cheaper for NJ Transit assuming there are no change orders.

Main thing to keep in mind: NJT bus operations is over capacity in all but one of its 16 if bus garages. Market Street garage in Paterson is 50%+ over capacity.

efforts are under way to add garages but they need a lot more funding

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RT @commutinglarry NJ Transit awards $81M contract to bus company accused of fraud

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/nj-transit-awards-81m-contract-to-bus-company-accused-of-fraud.html

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RT @kduggan16 Unlike most of the country, half of cars in NYC are stored on the street overnight, so we have to provide on-street charging, says Beaton of DOT.
Public space advocates have sounded the alarm about locking in car storage with sidewalk chargers

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/02/22/power-play-city-moves-to-put-thousands-more-e-car-chargers-on-the-sidewalk

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Anniversary blog post from May 12, 2009: fucking up the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a Wegman's with a gigantic parking lot was actually a vision for Brooklyn's depraved political elite.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/05/destination-supermarket.html

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RT @oldurbanist Too much talk about luxury housing, and not enough about luxury zoning.

This blew up a bit, but I searched and the phrase has been used here [on Twitter] before, first by @dgouldin way back in 2016 and then by @ericpanzer from YIMBYtown 2017, and intermittently since. Maybe we can make it stick. #luxuryzoning

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RT @commutinglarry Gifted article so no paywall to read about why some riders opposite NJ Transits new ticket policy that includes old tickets

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/nj-transit-tickets-that-had-no-expiration-date-will-no-longer-be-valid-under-new-policy.html?gift=a319a195-368e-41c2-8a48-c7dd029e3704

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RT @lukedistelhorst I tried hard to get an "environmental reporter" to add transit jobs to an article on "green jobs." I was unsuccessful.

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RT @zoningatlas Did you know town offices sometimes charge fees to access their zoning codes and maps—documents legally mandated to be public?

Barriers like this hinder everyday people from freely & easily accessing information they are legally entitled to about the places they live.

That's why the is working toward shrinking this accessibility gap, compiling clearer, easy-to-understand zoning formation available at your finger tips.

https://www.zoningatlas.org/atlas

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Via Carter Rubin on Twitter: Some guy hacked a Prius with trolley poles to run off the Muni overhead wires in San Francisco. Here's a writeup from 2014:

https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-80cdbe55d68e

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@ZaneSelvans The date I wrote in my toot?

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@ZaneSelvans Ooh, I got fooled! 😆

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WNYC's Rosemary Misdary interviewed some random labor relations professor as an authority on reducing emissions in New York City. And because of Misdary's elite bias, the conversation was all about making taxpayers pay for charging stations for electric cars in a city where the majority doesn't own cars.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/electric-vehicles-make-1-nyc-cars-will-epa-emissions-crackdown-spark-boom/

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@ariaflame We have electric vehicles - subways and els. We used to have electric vehicles on the street - trolleys. We tore out all the trolley infrastructure, and most of the el infrastructure.

There are tons of ways we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Electric cars are a tiny fraction of that.

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