Cap'n Transit
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Climate advocate, queer, ranting against bullshit for over 15 years. @[email protected]. [email protected]
To wear a mask or not wear a mask on planes trains and buses. Chatted with @mgodoyh about #COVID19 transmission on buses for @NPR Morning Edition: npr.org/2022/04/21/109…
We oppose A551 to exempt NYPD officers from congestion tolls. It gives a special interest a $22 million handout that will just need to be paid by other tax or tollpayers. We ask the Legislature to NOT pass this bill. buff.ly/4hjrxHV
The climate benefits of NYC’s hard-won congestion pricing plan grist.org/article/the-cl…
Coming up on a week since congestion pricing went into effect, what do New Yorkers have to say about it? “Transformative,” “a street renaissance,” “a whole other world,” “THANK YOU CONGESTION PRICING!” and more via the @nytimes 👏🔥 nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyr…
And I know I keep saying this but the virtual disappearance of anger honking in my neighborhood was a complete surprise and is the best congestion pricing side effect
Three days in and the traffic dip is holding; traffic volumes where I live (on 3rd Av, approach to the QMT and QBB) are visibly lower. Anger honking is enormously reduced, as is the sound of sirens and rumblers stuck in traffic.
Traffic is so much lighter in the congestion zone that MTA buses are running ahead of schedule. I've taken 3 buses down Lexington Ave. where the drivers sat at bus stops and green lights to avoid arriving early.
“We’re the most populous county in the state, most dense, and we don't have the ability to take mass transit rail service or a rail line into the city,” said Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco. “And that’s just not fair.” ow.ly/EJRf50UBxkc
Cut-and-cover is the fastest and cheapest way to build tunnels and is still widely used in world-class cities. This is Paris Line 4 extension: Half the tunnel sections were built in just 9 months, with the other half completed in the 9 following months!
