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capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @kduggan16 They know the place to catch the mayor is on his walk to his SUV

RT @jccoltin “The agents approached the mayor on the street ❗️ and asked his security detail to step away, ❗️ one of the people said. They climbed into his S.U.V. with him ❗️ and, pursuant to a court-authorized warrant, took his devices, ❗️ the person said.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

The Grand Street Bridge between East Williamsburg and Maspeth

RT @THECITY The MTA had to reroute buses on the fly late Wednesday after the city Transportation Department determined the rides are too overweight for a century-old bridge that links Brooklyn and Queens over Newtown Creek.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/11/10/mta-bus-detour-bridge-weight-sign/

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

2PM: Due to safety concerns stemming from structure issues of a non-Amtrak, privately owned building above the Empire Line tracks in New York City, #Amtrak service is suspended today between Albany and New York City.

• Trains 290 and 48 will be combined to travel as one train.
• Trains 64, 68, 284 and 290 are cancelled south of Croton-Harmon; customers will have tickets cross-honored by Metro North between CRT and NYP.
• Trains 49, 283 and 291 will now originate at ALB.

https://www.amtrak.com/alert/service-temporarily-suspended-between-new-york-city-and-albany-.html

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @njtpa Proponents of Mileage-Based User Fees (MBUF) see promise in the number of pilots that state and local governments are conducting around the country. Roughly 1/2 of U.S. states are currently or have been engaged in one. More from InTransition magazine:

https://www.intransitionmag.org/Article/As-Gas-Tax-Loses-Power,-Mileage-Based-User-Fees-Mo.aspx

jklolling, 7 months ago to transit

On Amtrak train from Philly to Boston today and we hit a 3.5hr delay at Old Saybrook because of a “stuck drawbridge” ☹️ #amtrak #transit

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @regionalplan Even more good news for regional transit!

@govnedlamont and other lawmakers announced $2 billion for rail projects in Connecticut, including improvements to the Hartford and New Haven Lines.

From WTNH:

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/state-lawmakers-announced-2b-for-conn-rail-projects/

BwayLinearPark, 7 months ago to random

We often get the question of just what kind of things we have in mind when we talk about creating the Broadway Linear Park to make interesting and useful car-free spaces. Now on our website, an exploration of what the Broadway Linear Park could like: https://www.theblip.nyc/broadway-in-five-acts. 1/

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @chittimarco Am I reading this correctly that the second phase SAS stations' boxes and caverns are so long that they almost touch each other?

For the next phase we'll have a single 5-mile long station with a continuous concourse. Thinking about it, it's sort of an interesting concept…

I love that use of "ancillary". It makes me think of an MTA's Petit and Grand Trianon for their Versailles-sized stations

yellow is space open to the public, teal is broom storage.

https://gothamtogo.com/mtas-second-avenue-subway-community-information-center-on-east-125th-street/

A detailed diagram of the 125th Street station, but it's so pixelated that it's hard to read any of the text

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

I am NOT passing on to you the latest concern trolling on congestion pricing, which lays out a bunch of things that could "go wrong" without actually explaining how any of them would make it not worth doing.

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @ob_cycler Your reminder, the things that make AVs safe:
-speed limiters
-geofencing
-obstacle detection
We could mandate in normal cars without waiting for full self driving.

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

Woohoo! The Mexican chapters were some of my favorite parts of the Old Patagonian Express...

RT @otree38 This is wild: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that he will require freight rail in Mexico to have electrified passenger service:

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/mexican-president-says-he-will-require-freight-rail-operators-to-offer-passenger-service/

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

Texas voters just passed a referendum to make representation on their Metropolitan Planning Organization proportional.

Meanwhile, from Wikipedia: "Voting members of NYMTC comprise representatives of the counties of Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk; the New York City Departments of City Planning and Transportation; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the New York State DOT. Unlike some other MPOs, all NYMTC votes must be consensus-based"

https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-what-tucson-can-learn-from-houstons-prop-b/article_36ff54d8-7f0f-11ee-adae-ff458f12f443.html

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @2avsagas It's very convenient that he's created a hierarchy where Ingrid Lewis-Martin and Richard Bearak are the bad guys who get the brunt of our collective ire, but this is Adams' decision to empower them to stop these projects through and through.

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

"The warnings appear to have made a difference, DOT contends. For instance, in the first week of warnings in August, 344 overweight truck drivers were automatically sent warnings, but that number declined to just 153 by the end of October."

RT @benbrachfeld Enforcement is finally set to begin next week against overweight trucks on the BQE. "Weigh in motion" sensors sync with license plate readers to issue $650 fines to too-stocky lorries on the crumbling highway.

https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-enforcing-weight-trucks-crumbling-bqe/

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

Sad that restoring 19 miles of quad-track and building four stations counts as a "megaproject."

RT @regionalplan More good news for transit in the region: @senschumer @sengillibrand announced $1.6 billion for Penn Access, a project that would better connect the Bronx to Metro-North and Penn Station.

https://bxtimes.com/schumer-gillibrand-penn-access/

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

"the worst thing is what we’ve seen in other systems in Indianapolis and Albuquerque,” Corbett said. “They went all in on EV buses. They were not reliable enough. It became counter productive and back fired.”

https://www.nj.com/news/2023/11/nj-transit-to-buy-hundreds-of-new-diesel-buses-before-going-all-electric.html

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

The MTA could upgrade the Beacon Line to serve more people and reroute trains around trouble spots. Instead they're trying to sell it off.

RT @liamdenning If climate change wrecks the Hudson Line, Westchester's charming river towns, and their real estate values, would unravel

https://bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-07/climate-change-new-york-s-metro-north-threatens-an-economic-mudslide

capntransit, 7 months ago to random

RT @idothethinking Good BART poster but what it reveals is absent bridge tolls and paid parking, public transit isnt financially logical. This is why we need to stop subsidizing parking so its free on most public curbs and stop subsidizing gas companies so that fuel costs are below their actual cost