Indraneel @indraneel.org · 21/09/2026TIL about the cable that was cut today. infra decisions compound www.washingtonpost.com/archive/busi...washingtonpost.comMCI, Amtrak to Build Communications Cable 100
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 16/09/2026what'll be the this of now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbu...en.wikipedia.orgKingsbury Commitment - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by IndraneelHenry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026my takeaway: the northeast really needs some interurban-style mass transit investment. there's a non-zero number of people in the NEC who own cars just to go away for the weekend! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...nytimes.comAn East Coast Summer Vacation, All by Public TransportationA self-described transit romantic set out to visit prime summer destinations using only public transportation. Would getting there really be half the fun? 1312818
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/09/2026I've been thinking a lot about highways in the context of AI/computing and trying to find the analogy, contrived as it is 100
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 01/09/2026When you layer it over 1930s aerial imagery it really becomes very stark indraneel.org/nj-1930s-roa... 020
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 31/08/2026TIL TMZ is short for "thirty-mile zone" a 'studio zone' surrounding Hollywood en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_...en.wikipedia.orgStudio zone - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by IndraneelJosh Gee @jgee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Oh man this is hard www.dokugame.app/en/play/metr... @ndhapple.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net @2avesag.as @plitter.bsky.socialdokugame.appMetrodoku New York · DokuMetrodoku New York: today's grid, the same for every player. Nine cells, two criteria per cell, three lives. 7117
Reposted by IndraneelBen S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Transit agency managers always think the solution is overhauling an esoteric in-house app instead of creating robust and functional APIs for third-party apps 7377
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 31/07/2026genuinely think LeBron possibly commuting from NYC to Philly is the perfect time for @amtrak.com to run back the Clocker, unsubmerge the state and get and keep operations on the NEC on point 010
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 23/07/2026pretty cool shop.westchestersc.com/products/adu...shop.westchestersc.comAdult Westchester SC Commuter KitOfficial Westchester Soccer Club Authentic Commuter Kit. Premium match-quality soccer jersey inspired by Westchester's Metro-North train lines. 010
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 22/06/2026Good piece, this needs to change www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.sThe vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found. 020
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/06/2026TIL about Pennsylvania Railroad train to the gamemichaelfroio.comTo the Game: A Pennsylvania Railroad Tradition — Michael Froio | PhotographySaturday, December 12th, 2015 marks the 116th year of the annual college football classic between the rival teams of the United States Military Academy of West Point, New York and the United States Na... 020
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 02/06/2026Currently reading this www.harpercollins.com/products/the... Roads made that populism technically formalharpercollins.comThe Big Roads“Travelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the ... 030
Reposted by IndraneelColleen Wilson @colleenonthescene.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Could fusing NJ TRANSIT and the NJ Turnpike solve transit’s perennial funding problems? Some think it might. Others will need to be convinced. What can be learned from others (eg MTA, PANYNJ, MD DOT) that have done this? For now, Kris Kolluri is testing the waters helming both agencies.northjersey.comCould NJ Transit and the turnpike merge? Agencies' lead steering ideaWould a merger of NJ Transit and the turnpike be innovative or political feeding frenzy? A test case is underway as Kris Kolluri helms both agencies. 2116
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 09/05/2026skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?ci... skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?ci... 120
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 04/05/2026indraneel.org/posts/2026/0...indraneel.orgThings I read this month: April 2026 | Indraneel Purohit 000
Reposted by IndraneelNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Fun find this afternoon: In 1957, the Port Authority did the engineering work to link the downtown PATH to the Lexington Avenue subway local tracks. 1519336
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 10/04/2026Yeah these rock and even more than the public transit made me pretty despondent about the states www.torched.la/the-best-sea...torched.laThe best seat in townIt's a public bathroom, yes, but it's really a piece of infrastructure that unlocks access to the city 000
Reposted by IndraneelColleen Wilson @colleenonthescene.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I visited the Tonnelle Ave project site today where I could see all the tunnel boring machine parts scattered around, collecting snow, waiting to be assembled. A pause in construction will have huge consequences for this $16B tunnel program. My story 👇northjersey.comAs suits try to restore $16B Gateway tunnel project, work winds downIt could cost $20 million a month to wind the Gateway project down and secure the sites. If restored, finding skilled workers again could be hard. 0194
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 05/01/2026abcnews.go.com/Health/new-f...abcnews.go.comNew federal screening guidance expands cervical cancer testing with an at-home HPV optionThe new option will be covered by private insurance beginning in January 2027. 020
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 19/12/2025www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comThe NYC subway is drowning. Here’s how to save it.As the planet warms, subway systems around the world have struggled to cope with floods far beyond what they were originally designed to handle. 010
Reposted by IndraneelMiles in Transit @milesintransit.com · 18/12/2025This is the best seat on the Amtrak Northeast Regional because of the guilt-free recline. 51365
Reposted by IndraneelThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/12/2025Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said. He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.washingtonpost.comBrown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeonMukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday. 16422139
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 04/12/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qecp...youtube.comHomer admires a Japanese toilet, family traumatized.YouTube video by drpierpoint 010
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/11/2025abcnews.go.com/Health/100-c...abcnews.go.comAs few as 2 cigarettes per day linked to 60% increased risk of heart disease: StudyJust 100 cigarettes over the course of someone’s life may be enough to raise their risk of heart disease and death, a new study suggests. 010
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/10/2025Scanning Google Maps (as one does) and I saw this www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/01/new-... 150
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 23/09/2025interesting read on postpartum care www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...liebertpub.comBridging the Postpartum Cliff—First Year Outcomes of a Postpartum Transition to Primary Care Clinic | Women's Health ReportsBackground: Half of maternal deaths occur after 42 days postpartum, a time when women are already out of obstetrical care. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends postpartum... 020
Reposted by IndraneelPete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 04/09/2025Blog post up for stac-map: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09... A very imperfect prototype of a map-first #STAC app, it includes: - stac-geoparquet visualization and download - Experimental natural language collection search Uses #deck.gl, @duckdb.org, #geoarrow, and github.com/stac-utils/r...developmentseed.orgA Map-First Tool for Exploring STAC Data — Development Seedstac-map makes exploring STAC GeoParquet as simple as zooming around a map. 1215
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/09/2025The grand slam result chart on tennis players’ Wikipedia pages is a very underrated data viz 042
Reposted by IndraneelUday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 27/07/2025A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%* 816948
Reposted by IndraneelPete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 23/07/2025Aiming for end of the month to announce, but here's what we're working on: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ I'm getting some (much needed) help on the frontend (h/t @indraneel.org), but the core idea is this: - map-first @stacspec.bsky.social viz - stac-geoparquet as first-class The rest is opendevelopmentseed.orgstac-map 121
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 07/07/2025in 1902 the CEO of the PRR was getting to nyc (well, jersey city) from philly in 79 minutes. it takes 75 minutes today with the tunnel built during his tenure 120
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 06/05/2025Getting very lost in this map of Olmsted firm work nps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...nps.maps.arcgis.comArcGIS Web Application 000
Reposted by IndraneelAhmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Ever wanted to waste infinity hours doing tile puzzles of every place in the world? Well, now you can with #AnyMapPuzzle You can play for free, forever (literally), at bothness.github.io/anymap 811331
Reposted by IndraneelJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...talkingpointsmemo.comCDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant HealthThe Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection... 83994571
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 19/02/2025idk man one peak morning bus trip of mine through the lincoln tunnel took 3 minutes 050
Reposted by IndraneelDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025One of the purposes of DOGE is to give a sheen of respectability to lies about government. A 10 minute conversation with someone who understands Social Security data - or just Cobol - would have debunked this, but the lie is more valuable to their goals than the truth. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...wired.comNo, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security BenefitsElon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation. 30740239
Reposted by IndraneelRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/02/2025It certainly is not responsible for the scale of what is happening, but eventually folks are going to have to reckon with how DOGE’s tactics mirror USDS’s & how more checks were needed. from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no... 810121
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 13/01/2025after seeing specifically this post, I made a browser extension that shows a sidebar w/ all the quotes for a given post 010
Reposted by IndraneelUday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 13/12/2024In 2004, when Jersey City was ~20% smaller: - PATH ran the normal weekday service pattern (at 15 min frequencies) on weekends, plus 10 min midday service on all lines. - HBLR ran 15-minute headways middays & weekends (vs 20 now) 918644
Indraneel @indraneel.org · 09/12/2024Made a quick wifi heatmap maker that wraps `/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I` to figure out where to put an additional mesh router 220
