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capntransit

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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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The Voice of the Subways, Bernie Wagenblast, will be among the judges at the May 31 all-gender Miss Subways 2024 contest at Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore Theater (1208 Surf Ave)!

"Contestants will represent their subway line of choice, answer subway-themed questions, and show off their talents, all for a chance to represent NYC straphangers as the next Miss Subways."

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/who-will-win-the-transit-tiara-at-nycs-all-gender-miss-subways-competition-052924

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RT @jalexa1218 On Friday I went to this Mexican bar in Brooklyn. All the tables were full, so people had to stand. Before this summer they had extended their outdoor seating area to the street but now it is parking for one graffiti covered truck

Andres4NY, to cycling
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I'm not on Xitter any more, but someone else (on IRC, lol) posted this.

I think the original article is from 2017.

capntransit,
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@EverydayMoggie @Andres4NY A lot of the deaths from natural disasters are car-related:

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/08/hurricane-death-toll.html

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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/

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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

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Every truck VMT is a policy failure.

RT @usdotfhwa At 8.3 billion vehicle-miles traveled (VMT), Interstate 80 leads the nation with the most annual VMT, followed closely by I-75 at 8.1 billion and I-40 at 7.7 billion. https://fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms.cfm

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"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

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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

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Speling can be hrad

capntransit,
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@partim @tml The influence of Möge Tee?

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Anniversary blog post from May 29, 2010, in which I draw on some musings from Engineer Scotty about what motivates people to choose a particular transportation mode, and distill them to four categories: Availability, Value, Amenities and Glamour.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-difficulties-predicting-mode.html

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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

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Cool, cool. End of August. Sure, no rush, bike lanes don't need protection or anything.

('s 311 has entries allowing you to report multiple types of 'illegal' games, but nothing for reporting any kind of unsafe bike lane situation. So you just send a generic comment to Queens commissioner, which may get answered eventually..)

Furniture Store Complaint Make a complaint about a furniture or mattress store. Gambling Call 911 to report illegal gambling. Games of Chance Complaint Make a complaint about a business that hosts bingo, raffles, and other games of chance. Gaming Cafe Complaint Make a complaint about a business with three or more computers for playing games. Garbage Truck Spill Report waste leaking or spilling from a garbage truck or trash that spilled onto the ground while being loaded into a truck.
Stray Animal Report a stray or abandoned animal. Street Con Game Report a street con game, such as three card Monte. Street Fair Vendor Complaint Make a complaint about a vendor at a street fair. Street Flooding Report street flooding or ponding.

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@Andres4NY This is why 311 stats should always be suspect. It's not clean input!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-limits-of-kvetchocracy.html

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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

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@andytiedye Did you read my.post?

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"Memorial Day will be celebrated as usual, by high-speed collisions of automobiles and bodies strewn on highways and the sound of ambulance sirens throughout the land." - Howard Zinn, 1976

h/t @bhalpin

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/whom-will-we-honor-memorial-day/

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We should have torn down the 1950s-era Bronx River Parkway extension that people keep dying on (one person died last month). Instead advocates stopped at a half-assed Sheridan Expressway teardown and we're spending $138 million to rebuild the bridge with wider lanes and shoulders. Sorry, we gotta cut corners on transit, though!

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/bronx-river-parkway-bridge-project-flatiron-ee-cruz-nyc/692693/

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RT @dahvnyc You can thank NYC Council Speaker Adams for effectively destroying NYC's outdoor dining program. Speaker Adams made clear that she wanted curb space reverted to free car storage & that she didn't see the purpose of outdoor seating year-round.

The result was a set of regulations that make it so onerous and cost prohibitive to set up tables in the street that the number of outdoor dining set-ups is shrinking from thousands to hundreds.

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

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Anniversary blog post from May 27, 2014: When new housing is proposed, many people object that it's not "affordable," which is what our biggest need is. When elevated trains are proposed, people object that they'll reduce property values.

Why not kill two birds with one stone: build els with new apartments next to them!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2014/05/cheap-housing-with-els.html

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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

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@Colinvparker @wollman @DiegoBeghin In my experience, the people who promote this strategy play a bit of a shell game. They may claim that (a) there's no need for consumers to change their behavior, because all their polluting consumables will be replaced with carbon-free ones, or (b) that the consumers have been duped by the evil capitalists, and will change their behavior as soon as the capitalists stop manipulating them.

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@Colinvparker @wollman @DiegoBeghin Yes, I'm not opposed to penalizing the owners and managers of large corporations, and penalizing just the corporate organizations may even produce some results.

I just don't think it's anywhere near enough. People like Rick Heede and Blair Horner repeat it like it's the obvious solution that will solve all our problems, and that distracts from the work we need to do to change behavior.

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@wollman @Colinvparker @DiegoBeghin Oh, I know! But Blair Horner, the Executive Director of NYPIRG tells us that it doesn't have to happen that way.

He spends a good chunk of this interview from last week reiterating it, and tweets about it almost every day.

https://www.wamc.org/show/the-capitol-connection/2024-05-23/the-capitol-connection-blair-horner-executive-director-of-nypirg

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@DiegoBeghin @Colinvparker Yes, we definitely need to be prepared with a strategy to meet any backlash!

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@Colinvparker @DiegoBeghin Exactly! I can kind of understand it from people whose focus is elsewhere and just want to do something about climate change - or at least to be seen to do something.

I can't understand it from people who've made opposing climate change their central career or mission in life, like Mary Heglar, Tess Riley, Cline Jones and Rick Heede.

Sometimes they'll even admit they're fudging the numbers a bit, but it's worth it to focus on big polluters.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal

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Pedestrian Observations: Stop Spacing on Crosstown Routes https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/05/26/stop-spacing-on-crosstown-routes/

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@Alon Good point:

"IBX errs in only stopping in East New York at Atlantic Avenue, connecting to the L and the LIRR, with no direct connection to Broadway Junction for the A/C and J. The distance between these two locations is only 350 meters, and it may be awkward to have two stops in short succession, but the meaning of high relative density is exactly that it’s okay to have more closely spaced stops."

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