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capntransit, 14 hours ago to random

RT @railpassengers One of 123 ADA-based Amtrak station projects since 2011, the Montpelier Junction station along the Vermonter route is getting a makeover

https://vtdigger.org/2024/05/27/montpelier-amtrak-platform-undergoing-3m-upgrade/

capntransit, 15 hours ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc After a car passenger is killed by a driver fleeing cops, Streetsblog examine police chases and found they remain historically high.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/29/in-hot-pursuit-nypd-chases-still-surging-unleashing-danger-on-city-streets

capntransit, 21 hours ago to random

"The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced today that it has awarded an $83.3 million grant to NJ TRANSIT to transform the historic Brick Church station in East Orange into a modern, fully accessible station that preserves historic features and improves the customer experience. Highlights include replacing the current low-level platforms with accessible high-level platforms and adding elevators."

https://www.njtransit.com/press-releases/nj-transit-receives-83-million-grant-fta-brick-church-station-modernization

capntransit, 22 hours ago to random

RT @aarmlovich Decommodification--ditching the price system in favor of a lottery, waitlist, or other rationing--can be done, but urban housing scarcity is a physical fact

It is possible to turn high prices into 20-year waitlists, for example, but it will not fit 100 families into 90 homes

capntransit, 1 day ago to random

RT @openplans NYC's "roadway dining structures...occupy parking spaces or other parts of the street." Does outdoor dining occupy "parking spaces"? Or does free curbside parking actually occupy public space, homogenizing & clogging a useful & potentially versatile piece of our streets?

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-summer-is-the-end-of-outdoor-dining-in-nyc-as-we-know-it

capntransit, 2 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 28, 2010: We do not make just one mode choice. We make mode choices repeatedly, of at least three kinds: Single Trips, Habits and Investments. We're not going to get people out of cars by addressing only one kind of choice.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2010/05/mode-choices.html

capntransit, 3 days ago to random

New blog post: There's an approach to climate change that focuses on "Making Polluters Pay" for the cost of carbon pollution. But who counts as a polluter? Why are they so insistent that it's just a handful of corporations?

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2024/05/making-all-polluters-pay.html

capntransit, 3 days ago to random

RT @streetfilms Wow! Just got a nice note from an urban planner who was very angry more people haven't watched our Paris School Streets Streetfilms! She called it "the most important educational tool made for urbanists in the last 5 years."

Thanks. I agree. So watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPzocuqKPc

capntransit, 4 days ago to random

RT @regionalplan We heard today is someone's birthday!

The Brooklyn Bridge opened 141 years ago today. We found some old-school bridge crossing photos in our archives, circa 1980s. #Happy141BKBridge

Five people walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, wearing 80s-style office and business casual clothes. One man is carrying a briefcase. In the background the Bell switching tower can be seen with its marble cladding and AT&T logo, and the World Trade Center.
Two women walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, in a section that is higher than the rest of the pedestrian deck. It is lined with chain-link fence. The women are wearing 80s-style office clothes with skirts below the knee, and holding a large tote bag between them by the handles. In the background the World Trade Center and the Woolworth Building can be seen. Two men in suits are climbing the stairs to the elevated walkway.

capntransit, 5 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 25, 2011: Whenever I hear people claim that Uber and Lyft "destroyed" New York City's taxi system, my mind boggles at how completely ignorant or how deep in denial they must be. This post was part of a series where I described how fantastically shitty the taxi system was in 2011:

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-yellow-cabs-in-practice.html

capntransit, 5 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc Only in Streetsblog: @ndhapple is back in print — and with a banger of a story about how late LIRR trains turn thousands of commuters into sprinters to catch their connections at Jamaica: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/24/late-island-rail-road-lirr-on-time-stats-obscure-rider-fury-at-thousands-of-blown-connections

capntransit, 6 days ago to random

In Paris, the transit authority reconfigured its train shops and built apartments on the land freed up. It's now renting them out to its bus drivers, a 936 square foot apartment with a balcony for about $900 a month.

In New York the MTA provides parking for employees who drive in from the suburbs.

https://www.leparisien.fr/immobilier/un-appartement-de-87m2-avec-terrasse-pour-833-euros-a-paris-la-ratp-loge-ses-salaries-a-des-prix-imbattables-23-05-2024-LHMP6Q4XCJFMPCZMZYVI4F6MDM.php

capntransit, 6 days ago to random

RT @streetsblognyc The NYPD is still writing 92 percent of its tickets for "jaywalking" to Blacks and Latinos.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/22/on-the-bias-nypds-walking-while-black-ticketing-continues

capntransit, 7 days ago to random

RT @humantransit The cool kids are all trying to sell us battery-electric buses, whose limitations of range could lead to service cuts. Don't forget: trolleybuses are a proven technology that has worked well for decades. Are the wires really so horrible?

https://humantransit.org/2009/08/vienna-do-the-wires-ruin-it.html

capntransit, 7 days ago to random

RT @streetsblogkea Cute thing someone just sent me: a version of Frogger without the cars. The frog just...crosses the street without incident, then chats with random characters about how much they love sustainable cities + collects points to ride a bullet train. https://woe-industries.itch.io/frogger-walkable-city

capntransit, 8 days ago to random

RT @mnolangray: Daycares in the US should enjoy RLUIPA-tier protections. Like it should be nearly impossible to prohibit them unless there's an imminent health and safety threat.

capntransit, 9 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 21, 2008, when the US government spent $100 million a year on "Essential Air Service," subsidizing flights to tiny airports in the middle of nowhere. It's now almost $400 million a year.

In New York State the airports served now are Watertown, Massena and Saranac Lake. We could probably save a lot of money by restoring passenger service on the train lines that used to serve those towns!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2008/05/essential-service.html

capntransit, 9 days ago to random

RT @schwartztalya Call in tomorrow, May 21st at 9:00am, to the NJTA commissioners meeting and tell them to cancel their miserable highway expansion project. Dial 1-800-346-7359, Entry Code: 487219.

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/us-coast-guard-will-likely-ok-controversial-nj-turnpike-extension-bridge.html?gift=f8bfcbdd-efc6-41bc-95d7-45d9581c4715

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

Anniversary blog post from May 19, 2013: Every time there's an outage on the Northeast Corridor I point out that there's a parallel train line that we could restore. The right-of-way is all still publicly owned.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2013/05/we-cant-depend-on-northeast-corridor.html

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

RT @bellachu10 When contemplating “war” it’s helpful to consider who is doing the killing and who is doing the dying. Cars are inanimate objects used to wage war on PEOPLE. People on foot (and bikes) are dying at the highest rate in 40 years. There is no war on cars. There is only self defense.

capntransit, 11 days ago to random

RT @revents_sustbiz People over #parking: The U.S. cities reclaiming their streets. Amy Nguyen reports. #parkingreform #decarbonization #urbanplanning

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/people-over-parking-us-cities-that-are-reclaiming-their-streets-2024-05-08/

capntransit, 12 days ago to random

We currently have a system where we rely on hundreds of millions of individual drivers. If any one of them has a genuine medical episode, let alone some lapse of attention or judgment explained away as a "medical episode" by the cops, it is very easy for it to kill or seriously injure that person and others.

We used to have a system where most people walked or were passengers and the really dangerous vehicles were guided by rails, but apparently this is progress.

https://www.amny.com/police-fire/one-dead-in-six-car-pileup-on-gowanus-expressway/

capntransit, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

I'm already not boosting any quote boosts. I just blocked someone who used quote boost to call someone else out - something I was told not to worry about on Mastodon.

capntransit, 15 days ago to random

RT @streetsblogusa An Amtrak vs. Brightline battle is heating up in Ohio. Could other U.S. communities see similar competitions? NeoTrans Blog explores.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/13/cleveland-a-target-of-rail-competitors

capntransit, 16 days ago to random

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/