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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 21/09/2026
i suppose NJ mattering is in and of itself an infra decision bsky.app/profile/coll...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 21/09/2026
TIL about the cable that was cut today. infra decisions compound www.washingtonpost.com/archive/busi...
washingtonpost.com
MCI, Amtrak to Build Communications Cable
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 16/09/2026
what'll be the this of now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbu...
en.wikipedia.org
Kingsbury Commitment - Wikipedia
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
my 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.com
An East Coast Summer Vacation, All by Public Transportation
A self-described transit romantic set out to visit prime summer destinations using only public transportation. Would getting there really be half the fun?
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/09/2026
- either Google was the railroad, and the data center buildout + LLM products are the public roads + personal automobile - or the AI companies are building the railroads and we'll all be buying personal GPUs in 1-2 decades
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/09/2026
I've been thinking a lot about highways in the context of AI/computing and trying to find the analogy, contrived as it is
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 01/09/2026
When you layer it over 1930s aerial imagery it really becomes very stark indraneel.org/nj-1930s-roa...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 31/08/2026
TIL TMZ is short for "thirty-mile zone" a 'studio zone' surrounding Hollywood en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_...
en.wikipedia.org
Studio zone - Wikipedia
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Josh Gee @jgee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh man this is hard www.dokugame.app/en/play/metr... @ndhapple.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net @2avesag.as @plitter.bsky.social
dokugame.app
Metrodoku New York · Doku
Metrodoku New York: today's grid, the same for every player. Nine cells, two criteria per cell, three lives.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/08/2026
And you'd think they'd know since, aside from GPS features, the web properties (webtickets.njtransit.com, dv.njtransit.com#/rail/home) are way better than the app
dv.njtransit.com
Departure Vision
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Transit agency managers always think the solution is overhauling an esoteric in-house app instead of creating robust and functional APIs for third-party apps
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 31/07/2026
genuinely 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
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 23/07/2026
pretty cool shop.westchestersc.com/products/adu...
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Adult Westchester SC Commuter Kit
Official Westchester Soccer Club Authentic Commuter Kit. Premium match-quality soccer jersey inspired by Westchester's Metro-North train lines.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 22/06/2026
Good piece, this needs to change www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/06/2026
TIL about Pennsylvania Railroad train to the game
michaelfroio.com
To the Game: A Pennsylvania Railroad Tradition — Michael Froio | Photography
Saturday, 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...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 02/06/2026
Currently reading this www.harpercollins.com/products/the... Roads made that populism technically formal
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The 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 ...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 01/06/2026
It's an interesting point but I think we do and they are very highly paid to do other things
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Colleen Wilson @colleenonthescene.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Could 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.com
Could NJ Transit and the turnpike merge? Agencies' lead steering idea
Would 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.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 15/05/2026
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 09/05/2026
skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?ci... skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?ci...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 04/05/2026
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Things I read this month: April 2026 | Indraneel Purohit
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 28/04/2026
what's going on here?
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Fun find this afternoon: In 1957, the Port Authority did the engineering work to link the downtown PATH to the Lexington Avenue subway local tracks.
The engineering schematic
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 10/04/2026
apologies if you've answered this elsewhere but is this data available in one place you could share? and is private carrier data un-opra-able?
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 10/04/2026
Yeah these rock and even more than the public transit made me pretty despondent about the states www.torched.la/the-best-sea...
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The best seat in town
It's a public bathroom, yes, but it's really a piece of infrastructure that unlocks access to the city
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Colleen Wilson @colleenonthescene.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I 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.com
As suits try to restore $16B Gateway tunnel project, work winds down
It 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.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 27/01/2026
the vermella (from the article image) is where the wiz was. loehmann plaza's still empty
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 05/01/2026
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-f...
abcnews.go.com
New federal screening guidance expands cervical cancer testing with an at-home HPV option
The new option will be covered by private insurance beginning in January 2027.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 19/12/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
The 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.
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Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com · 18/12/2025
This is the best seat on the Amtrak Northeast Regional because of the guilt-free recline.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/12/2025
Mukhammad 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.com
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 04/12/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qecp...
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Homer admires a Japanese toilet, family traumatized.
YouTube video by drpierpoint
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/11/2025
abcnews.go.com/Health/100-c...
abcnews.go.com
As few as 2 cigarettes per day linked to 60% increased risk of heart disease: Study
Just 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.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 18/10/2025
Scanning Google Maps (as one does) and I saw this www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/01/new-...
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 23/09/2025
interesting read on postpartum care www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
liebertpub.com
Bridging the Postpartum Cliff—First Year Outcomes of a Postpartum Transition to Primary Care Clinic | Women's Health Reports
Background: 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...
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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 04/09/2025
Blog 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.org
A Map-First Tool for Exploring STAC Data — Development Seed
stac-map makes exploring STAC GeoParquet as simple as zooming around a map.
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/09/2025
The grand slam result chart on tennis players’ Wikipedia pages is a very underrated data viz
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/08/2025
no seating in penn station then; no seating in moynihan now
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/08/2025
very prescient writing on the tunnels opening: nobody cares about infra if it works
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/08/2025
this late period capex expansion in railroads wasn’t translating into movement in stock price
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 03/08/2025
early 1900s railroad regulation talk was centered around what we would call take rates today
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 28/07/2025
bldg on the right (queen latifah’s old studio) still shuttered 🧐
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Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A 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%*
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 24/07/2025
oh i didn’t see that it was a dealbreaker for you - no, reading highlights is impossible hah. most of your other points seem addressed. i never thought to change the launcher but it opens to a standard app-icon home screen
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 24/07/2025
- preemptive tunnel safety led to the north river tunnels single tracked (not sure how early this assumption could’ve been altered) - yet, there was a clear intention to make 2 more tunnels (presumably not in 100+ years)
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 24/07/2025
i enjoy the boox palma for instapaper
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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 23/07/2025
Aiming 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 open
developmentseed.org
stac-map
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Indraneel @indraneel.org · 07/07/2025
in 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
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