Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 18hIMO: The real lesson here is that a trader’s strategy of landing one or two massive bets is not how government policy works. 0212
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.thecityreporter.nycWhat to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election DayNew York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election. 210336
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialJon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026South Dakota has the highest state birth rate. I'm sure it's brimming over with transit maintenance needs & ideas for new service. Utah is highest in marriage - Trax & Frontrunner have a short window to crank out proposals! 041
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 05/10/2026The Church that had to postpone an anti-vision zero “community” meeting a few years ago because a 9-year-old was killed by a truck driver the same week is at it again, this time protesting bus lane upgrades. www.instagram.com/p/DeHtgftlLi... 3293
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialJon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No one needs an extra year to sort public input into categories or themes & describe how the workable stuff is reflected in design options 0111
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialNo More Noise @sippindata.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You may sleep through the noise, but your body may still be responding to it. 🔗 hsph.harvard.edu/news/noise-can-har… 011
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 02/10/2026Another reason to move quickly to pour concrete and demap streets. This is silly nonsense. 7689
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialReinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reinvent Albany joins 15 advocacy groups, including @envdefensefund.bsky.social, @nrdc.org, @nypirg.bsky.social, @partnership4nyc.bsky.social, and @tstc.bsky.social in a new amicus brief supporting the MTA’s congestion pricing program in Duffy v. MTA. Read the amicus brief here: buff.ly/wBwZzXYreinventalbany.orgAmicus Brief Supporting Congestion Pricing in Duffy v. MTA Lawsuit - Reinvent AlbanyReinvent Albany joined an amicus brief with 15 advocacy groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, NYPIRG, Partnership for New York City, and Tri-State… 065
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialEvan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This line from Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer is rattling around in my head as I read the news this morning… 051
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To quote Lando Calrissian, this deal is getting worse all the time. 10-ish years is certainly going to turn into longer, closing playgrounds and ruining local residents' lives, only to lock in the current design for generations. We need to think bigger. (And I get that this US DOT makes that hard.)nyc.streetsblog.org'Truck Flyover': Mamdani's BQE Bypass Will Pass Over Brooklyn Bridge - Streetsblog New York CityMayor Mamdani plans to run a temporary highway over the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge for at least a decade as the city rebuilds the BQE. 1396
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”nyc.streetsblog.orgNYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on EnforcementNYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead. 222250
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Janno Lieber warned today that the surface transportation bill in front of Congress (which sucks) could take $250 million a year away from the MTA's capital plan nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/30/m...nyc.streetsblog.orgMTA Boss Warns GOP Bill Will Blow A Hole In Transit Budget - Streetsblog New York CityThe Republican-controlled Congress's proposed federal surface transportation bill would cut a quarter billion dollars per year from the MTA. 13311
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialJon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Great to see this state DOT-directed advocacy. Despite a few good projects here & there in NYC, NYSDOT is largely in a time warp in terms of policy & output (Still waiting on that study of the West Side Highway) 192
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 30/09/2026Thank you, President Trump, for making new rolling stock cost $1 billion more it should. We salute you for making the US' transit cost crisis even worse. 🫡 1255
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well well well, citywide bus speeds have hit a four-year high nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/29/w...nyc.streetsblog.orgWheels Up: City Bus Speeds Hit Four-Year High Under Mayor Mamdani - Streetsblog New York CityCitywide bus speeds hit 8.5 mph in August, which is the quickest buses have moved through the city in four years 14711
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 29/09/2026I had the same question. The doors should not show as closed if this happens. 4395
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Their show trials are all flops, no hits 110
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It turns out that a governing philosophy based entirely on owning the libs leads to some real sloppy work. 3281
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Right after he drowns Illinois to make Lake Iowa and float the ore on over 000
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New York, let's do Broadway next. There are some good stretches here and there, such as through the Flatiron District, but there's a lot of street left to do. 0322
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialChoresh Wald @choreshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Broadway south of Houston when 011
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialtalyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can't wait for no one to believe the data that this is good for business and the city economy overall. I still can't believe that Times Square has cars driving through it, especially during the busiest times of the day.... 052
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026Is the air too clean? Are you spending too little on gas? Boy, do I have a solution for you! bsky.app/profile/lega... 210918
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026This has been my personal issue for a while - though it's become more evident since I stopped blogging. Once-per-year updates on Penn Station Access or 2nd Ave. or OMNY or a multi-billion-dollar rolling stock plan just should not be acceptable, and Albany should do its own regular oversight here too 0132
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There’s an insane nihilism here right at the heart of modern conservative movement that is fundamentally removed from any sense of economic rationality 1439593
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialChase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A shrinking minority of Americans looks at Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and sees the fundamental issue as “how will people noticing this affect antisemitism in the U.S.? Nobody talk about it!” This point of view is parochial, narcissistic and shameful and thank god it’s going out of style 3526
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026US isn’t taking climate change seriously when it comes to transport policy Other countries are demonstrating that they can (1) mode shift toward transit, walk, bike; (2) electrify; (3) densify. US failing on all fronts. Result is that US emissions from transport aren’t falling as they should 310417
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wow I would have paid $90 at the same rate. That's messed up. 000
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Penn Station project master agreement that had Janno Lieber so crabby did in fact contain every provision he raised an alarm about: lobbying for Amtrak's funding demands, opening up the lease, not having a say in final designs. FIRST in Streetsblog nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/25/r...nyc.streetsblog.orgRevealed! Trump's Penn Station Contract Would Have Handcuffed MTA On Lease — And Let Duffy Say Whatever He Wants - Streetsblog New York CityThe deal really was as bad as Janno Lieber said it was. 0177
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialJon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@reinventalbany.bsky.social got hold of the "collaboration" agreement Amtrak has been pushing MTA to sign It asks MTA to give up leverage over station design/operations its current lease provides & wants NY State funding in the bargain There is still no design, cost or budget for the projectnydailynews.comTrump’s Penn Station deal is bad for N.Y.Thanks to the state Freedom of Information Law, we at Reinvent Albany got a copy of the Penn Station “collaboration agreement” Amtrak has been pushing the MTA to sign. As lifelong NYC transit advocate... 1278
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Seriously, I think about it a lot 010
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is too nice, must be some other city 240
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This war criminal saying that Mamdani is buddies with Hamas is its own form of blood libel and very dangerous, and we Jews need to call this out. It's sick. 420259
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Socialism, but make it for car owners. 2426
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 24/09/2026Found a practical option. 2335
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you Bibi for fighting the stereotype that Jews are funny, by breaking out this atrocious prop comedy 0143
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As @doctorow.pluralistic.net says, "Geometry hates cars." Transportation in cities is a space problem, not a tech problem. 013846
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oy. In a world where most US cities have barely scratched the surface of what bikes and transit can do — and where the federal government is actively hostile to such projects — we're a long way from driverless cars being a nice little "missing middle" of urban mobility. 41199
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a child of the BQE, the rush to replace it rather than remove it reflects generations of power players with Brooklyn-brain, who have trouble imagining their own lives without the highway but the borough's neighborhoods managed quite well before it was built and can do it again 000
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 23/09/202613,000 trucks are either just passing through Brooklyn now, in which case they can find another route to their destination, or they have business in the borough, in which case they travel local streets already and may take a more direct path in the absence of the highway 100
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If the City is already footing the huge bill, at great cost to other important capital projects and potentially basic services, in order to skirt federal highway standards, then let's also close some offending ramps or make someone else pick up the mounting tab 100
dannyintransit.bsky.social @dannyintransit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trump and truckmageddon are unsatisfying reasons to double down and, yes, kick the can along the BQE 100
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/09/2026First they came for the bus stops, and I did not speak out—because I support rerouting buses to reduce travel times while improving connections to other modes of transit and I don't think minor tweaks to urban transportation routing is akin to what a genocidal racist regime did to millions of people 0392
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialtalyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hell yeah. Let's get them off the BQE, out of our downtowns, oh and we need to invest in micro freight and blue highways. Hear me out - let's flip the incentives so it's cheaper and more efficient to transport goods without trucks. Consider Low Emissions Zones and Truck Appointment systems too. 062
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This right here: "If politics cannot deliver on the block where you live, why would you trust it to deliver anywhere in New York City?" 0425
Reposted by @dannyintransit.bsky.socialKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The MTA has been planning to reroute the B65 for years, long before Mamdani’s bike boulevard plans. And the reason? Because there are so many double parked cars on Dean/Bergen that buses literally get stuck. IT’S THE CARS. AS USUAL. 47512
