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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
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Anniversary blog post from May 20, 2016, in response to a Vogue article about young people hooking up with people they met on Uberpool and Lyftline rides.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-safety-and-comfort-of-ridesharing.html

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"Showing the carbrains how much space they take up"

submitted by u/mezmerkaiser to r/fuckcars

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1cvmebv/showing_the_carbrains_how_much_space_they_take_up/

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From the Empire State Passengers Association on Facebook:

Better late then never...Public acknowledgment of the Adirondack's six-week service suspension north of Saratoga Springs to Montreal which starts on Monday, May 20. Full service returns on July 1.

https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/passenger-rail-service-montreal-gets-lift-19464241.php

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"Quebec City Council Member Jackie Smith recently made headlines for proposing a nearly 39-fold increase to the annual $30 municipal car registration tax — about $22 USD — which she says would allow the community of 542,000 to totally eliminate fares, double its current transit coverage, and pay off all of the agency’s debt."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/16/this-city-leader-wants-drivers-to-pay-850-year-to-register-their-cars-and-give-the-money-to-transit

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RT @mateosfo: It’s the achilles heel of climate philanthropy. There is literally no excuse for why climate funders don’t support public transit advocacy.

They have hundreds of millions for electric cars. It simply doesn’t make sense.

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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

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'A public comment period [on Phil Murphy's Turnpike boondoggle] is open through June 11 by emailing SMB-D1Boston-Bridges-PublicNotices@uscg.mil. The Coast Guard encouraged comments from boaters and mariners. It also encouraged people to reach out who want to comment about the environmental effects of the project and potential “impacts on minority and/or low-income populations.” '

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/us-coast-guard-will-likely-ok-controversial-nj-turnpike-extension-bridge.html

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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.

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RT @ridersalliance

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RT @shellovvv In Waterford today [May 17] for the seasonal opening of New York State’s canal system more for WAMC News coming soon!

About ten pleasure boats in a lock, presumably on the Erie Canal
A woman sits on the bow of a pleasure boat, the Mendocino, while someone else sits in the pilot's seat.
Several pleasure boats cruise a canal, presumably the Erie Canal.

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RT @icgee It's Friday afternoon, can I be real for a sec about the realities of transit advocacy?

It's ridiculously underresourced, given the benefits of what we do. Philanthropy largely ignores transit, while pouring billions into causes that rely off of quality transit.

Worried about climate change? The single greatest threat to humanity & shared prosperity? Transportation is the 2nd largest source of emissions globally & the LARGEST source in the US.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791619959480791176.html

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RT @revents_sustbiz People over : The U.S. cities reclaiming their streets. Amy Nguyen reports.

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

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RT @gothamist Canadian wildfire smoke likely to return to NYC and become 'a new norm,' experts say

https://gothamist.com/news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-likely-to-return-to-nyc-and-become-a-new-norm-experts-say

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RT @jmartineznyc MISSED THE BUS: MTA blames 80% of canceled express bus trips on operator shortage - with June service increase planned

“You can’t run the extra service if you can’t run what you have now,” says @bus_group

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/16/express-bus-canceled-mta-drivers/

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Anniversary blog post from May 18, 2011: Areas without parking mandates in New York State include Buffalo, Canandaigua, Saranac Lake, Hudson, Manhattan below 110th and 96th Streets, and Long Island City.

After I posted this, @stephenjacobsmith found out that even though there are no parking mandates in Long Island City, there are parking incentives, which explains all the awful garages that have been built there in the past 25 years.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2011/05/manhattan-and-long-island-city-parking.html

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RT @upzonenj It's a little wild that due to the unwritten rules of NJ's congressional delegation, NJ-08 is for a Hispanic from Hudson, and NJ-10 is for an African American from Essex. If you're Jerry Walker from Hudson in 10, or Teresa Ruiz from Essex in 8, you can't realistically run and win

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RT @bfurnas “Manhattan's 96th Street will get a dedicated bus lane on both sides of Central Park as the Adams administration rolls out last-minute transit and streetscape improvements for congestion pricing…”

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/17/dot-reveals-new-bus-lane-plan-to-speed-up-crosstown-buses-in-upper-manhattan

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RT @nycbikelanes Dear @nycemergencymgt,

Parents with strollers and wheelchair users have the right to an unobstructed Cadman Plaza East.

@zachiscol, can you help remove this illegal barricade?

The Eastern District of NY has already secured the street with ADA-compliantly spaced bollards.

A close-up of the barricade blocking the sidewalk, right next to a tall steel fence.

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RT @marcelemoran If your street has room for parked cars it has room for trees

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RT @streetspac Surely the driver didn’t intend to kill anyone but the commercial-waste ecosystem creates conditions in which backing down a street and other dangerous driving maneuvers are commonplace. Absurd that NYC hasn’t even begun waste zone implementation yet.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/16/private-garbage-truck-driver-reversing-down-greenwich-village-street-fatally-strikes-man/

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RT @ctrailcouncil At our CPTC meeting in GCT with Metro North last night, they are not any closer to reinstating the Quiet Car. They recommend all advocacy efforts go through Connecticut DOT as a recommendation from them would be impactful.

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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/

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@swope From what I've seen, we generally don't restrict high risk people from continuing to drive because we've set up our economy so that most of them can't survive without driving.

We'd rather let these high risk people drive three-ton death machines around than reorganize our society so they can walk or take the train.

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I hate tech hype as much as anyone, but I'm also thoroughly sick of smug urbanists repeating to each other, "haha Silicon Valley reinvented the bus again!"

Silicon Valley is not reinventing the bus. They're trying to find ways to deliver bus transit that isn't mandated to be a shitty underpriced charity service. And every time they're defeated by two-bit leftists who don't have the brains or the nerve to take the fight to the road lobby where it belongs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/uber-go-get-uber-announces-uber-shuttle-uber-caregiver-costco-perks.html

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Anniversary blog post from May 17, 2009, in which I called bullshit on the "But disabled people!" argument.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/05/disabled-cars-and-transit.html

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