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capntransit, 7 months ago to random

“We will actually have 499 parking spaces, so we clearly have sufficient parking for the existing cars that use the two garages and the potential residents of this building (at 11 Spring St.),” Seckler said. “That leaves 194 unaccounted for parking spaces.”

RT @upzonenj A really ugly parking deck in downtown New Brunswick will disappear, although this project has an absurd amount of parking.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/new-brunswick/sections/development/articles/developer-seeking-to-build-30-story-tower-in-new-brunswick-addresses-parking-traffic-concerns

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @kareemxt_ I've found it. Perhaps the worst bus ad-wrap in all of transit history. No joke, it should be a crime to desecrate a transit vehicle like this

They might as well have put a massive middle finger on the side of the bus. It would've been more polite to their riders than this

A CARTA Proterra electric bus with an advertisement for a Chevrolet truck covering the entire bus

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @turnpiketrap The Turnpike's own engineering study said the bridge could be strengthened for $260 million and lifespan extended by 40 years.

Instead, they plan to move ahead and waste $6.2 BILLION on just new bridges instead of funding NJ Transit.

Does Gov. Murphy know climate change is real?

https://www.nj.com/news/2023/10/heres-what-the-environmental-impact-report-says-about-this-massive-nj-turnpike-widening-project.html

Andres4NY, 7 months ago to random

BREAKING: officer adams is going to fix it with more cops

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @yating_liu We partnered with Mastercard to look at how pedestrianizing 11 blocks of 5th Avenue last holiday season impacted the local economy. Guess what? It drove an estimated $3M in additional spending with merchants seeing a 6.6% increase in sales.

https://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/midtown-holiday-open-street-gave-3-mil-boost-local-biz-mayor

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @aaronacarr Hundreds of words in this article, but not a single one dedicated to the fact that only ~20% of households in Manhattan own cars and that New York City has one of the most expansive public transportation systems in the Western Hemisphere. Minor details.

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @kostelecplan Your regular reminder that there is no such things as "AASHTO standards" for street design decisions not on the Interstate Hwy System. Any engineer or DOT official who hides behind "I'm following AASHTO standards" as justification to deny your request for safe design is lying.

RT @boenau AASHTO has a lot to say about engineering judgment, so I'm not so sure they'd rush to defend professionals who either don't read or don't comprehend their guidebooks.

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @Streetsblog Wales cancelled all but 15 of 59 proposed road projects because they didn't do enough to curb climate change — and "threw down a challenge globally for a change of mindset ... when it comes to roads and their place in supporting society."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/highways-to-hell-how-one-country-is-rethinking-road-investment

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @nerd4cities Not a fan of the term “virtue signaling,” but if anything is virtue signaling it’s spending $80k on a vehicle that’s essentially an SUV with a little bit of space in the back to signal what a no-nonsense, salt of the earth, hardworking dude you are

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

Tear down the parking lots and garages, and people will walk and take the bus.

RT @nymtc Do you walk to your LIRR station? Bike to the Metro-North? Join the MTA for an overview of its NYMTC-funded effort to improve customer access to/from suburban MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA Long Island Rail Road stations.
https://www.nymtc.org/en-us/NEWS-EVENTS/calendar/ModuleID/1010/ItemID/250/mctl/EventDetails

#suburbancommuter

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @guitardude1236: Here’s how YOU can stay safe as a pedestrian!
Simply demand your city provide you with:

1. Daylit crosswalks
2. Bumpouts that shorten your crossing distance
3. Leading pedestrian interval coupled with No Turn On Red
4. Continuous sidewalks/raised crosswalks
5. Less cars

RT @nhtsagov October is Pedestrian Safety Month. Learn more on how to stay safe on the road, whether you are a driver, walker or runner: https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/pedestrian-safety

Andres4NY, 7 months ago to random

#AbolishStateDOTs. They're rotten and never going to change - their entire edict is highways. There's no reason for them to exist at this point. City & county DOTs at least have a more local focus and can be reformed.

https://carfree.city/@scott/111173694383325948

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @byerussell: Americans don't ride trains 🙃

From 2001-2020, #Amtrak's share of DC-New York travelers jumped to 80% of the air+rail market from 45%.

capntransit, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Edit to note that this is apparently 78% of microplastics from specific sources, including textiles and personal care products, which is only 11% of total microplastics.

So about 8% of total microplastics is directly from car tires.

RT @jme_pew Turns out “microplastics” isn’t descriptive enough. We should be panicking about tire dust.

“Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trust.”

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemicals

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @2avsagas: I think about this during fights over open streets when opponents claim streets have always been for cars. As you can see from Lexington & 89th in 1911 and 2005, that wasn't the case. We made decisions to whittle away space for people and give it to cars. That can be reversed.

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @bellachu10 I know two people who received life changing injuries as formerly young, healthy people from being hit by an older driver with age related impairment (glaucoma, cognitive impairment). Impaired drivers hurt and kill other people.

RT @boenau These crashes will increase if land use policies keep preserving car dependency. Seniors need viable mobility options.

"The 88-year-old male driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with authorities"

https://kron4.com/news/bay-area/4-6-people-injured-after-car-crashes-into-castro-valley-trader-joes/

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @aaronguhreen: I don’t think my neighbor should be allowed to have a new, larger car which is out of scale with the community. I would like to preserve his historic, smaller car so we can remember our heritage and protect what makes this community so unique.

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @3_under_scores_: Map of all county subdivisions in the United States of America where more people commute by transit than by car (including carpooling)

(2021 ACS 5-year estimates)

capntransit, 8 months ago to random

RT @cory_ep: “No community outreach was done over the last several decades to ask residents whether they wanted piles of smelly black trash bags piling up on their sidewalks, day after day, night after night, sometimes sitting as long as 36 hours." -@nycsanitation

https://gothamist.com/news/west-harlem-residents-say-new-shared-trash-bins-are-an-ugly-sight-on-historic-block