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@trainspiration.bsky.social
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Advocate for transit infrastructure in every neighborhood 🚊🚃🚅 No one should have to live more than a 1/2 mile from a train station Queens, NY 🌐

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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
With news of NYC Mayor’s initiative to construct thousands of affordable housing units over Sunnyside Yard, major opportunity to build the first direct rail link between Queens and the Bronx with a MetroNorth Station at Sunnyside Station via the Penn Station Access route @mayor.nyc.gov
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fantastic news but really should include a stop at the proposed Sunnyside Station as well!
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 31/03/2025
The purpose of American zoning is to make housing more expensive. It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If you are wondering what you can do during anxious times—at the local level you can start by communicating with your representatives and attending community meetings to demand more housing and public transit. We cannot afford to be NIMBYs whatsoever at this point.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is directly responsible for why we do not have high speed rail in this country.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
if anyone lives in Manhattan, please call Councilmember Bottcher’s office at 212-564-7757 and (respectfully!) tell him you support 60 stories of mixed income housing in Gansevoort Square! Dems truly cannot afford to be NIMBYs in the Trump era
Erik Bottcher @ebottcher • 19h
I strongly believe in the need to build more housing in all neighborhoods, but a height of 600 feet (60 stories) is obviously out of scale for the Meatpacking District. I have asked the city to pause releasing this RFP and instead issue one with a more appropriate height.
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Is it possible to be both YIMBY while also feeling that 60 stories is a tad bit tall for the West Village? Asking for a friend.
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
You can't be a sanctuary for people without affordable housing 🏘️ We need to fight to protect human rights across the United States and we also need to make great cities and states affordable for those who want to move.
lgbtqnation.com
LGBTQ+ youth flee hateful states: 266,000 young people have moved to more inclusive states - LGBTQ Nation
They don't want to live in states that are legislating away their rights.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Honest question—why can’t we just use public plots to build thousands of free housing units and finance it with an equal number of market rate units on the same site? This would solve the housing crisis instantaneously.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Through-running at Penn Station is one of the most essential infrastructure projects in the NYC Metropolitan region and possibly the entire East Coast
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Time for some crosstown light rails on some of Manhattan’s major streets—23rd, 34th, 59th, 125th etc. 🚉
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Incredibly frustrating that the first question asked anytime new transit is proposed is whether ridership projections can support it. That narrow way of thinking fails to consider induced demand, future growth, and also that projected ridership is almost always estimated far too conservatively.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hoping for many new trains this year 🚅🚃🚊🚝
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The reflex even among pro-transit people is to ask if a transit project is too costly. There’s never consideration of the opportunity cost of not building. Imagine if the NYC subways had never been built how many trillions of dollars that would have cost. It is unaffordable not to build transit.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Whatever Madrid is doing to expand its rail network so quickly must be implemented everywhere else immediately. Madrid expanded its entire network for the same price as single line expansions in other cities. There’s no time to wait or pass the task onto the next generation—this has to be done now.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
At a time when Amtrak ridership is surging we need to be boldly investing in increased service and EXPANDING ROUTES. It is so critical that we do this at the current juncture.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
City of Yes unfortunately does not go nearly far enough to address the housing crisis. 80,000 new housing units over 15 YEARS is not even close to what is truly needed—at least 100,000 new units per year.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We need to streamline the planning/building of transit projects to the point they can be delivered within one governor’s 4 to 8 year term.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 03/12/2024
NYC mayoral candidate Zellnor Myrie proposes building 70,000 units per year & 700,000 units over a decade, a bit less than the city built in the 1920s—and a bit more than the city built in the 50 years between 1970 & 2020. In 2023, NYC permitted 32,000 units.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A new subway in Thessaloniki (Greece’s second largest city) has opened! Also it’s been said time and again but it is WAY too expensive to build basic transit infrastructure in the U.S.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Legitimate question—why can’t we build this sort of rail on every highway either in the median or periphery? The right-of-ways exist. There never seems to be a proper reason why this cannot be done.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This parking minimum map makes it extremely clear that New York should’ve been seriously expanding rail transit over the last several decades—would have made it much easier for the areas in blue to realize parking minimums aren’t at all necessary.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today YIMBY stands for Yes In My BellY
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This and a 4 day weekend
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Not saying this hello kitty bullet train is a need (would be nice) but at least ONE high speed rail train please!
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Baffling that there is still no high speed rail between Albany and NYC. Albany should have HSR routes to NYC, Boston, Buffalo, and Montreal at the very least
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
There is zero justification for mandatory parking minimums anywhere in NYC
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We need more train frequency and a massive expansion of Amtrak routes!
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Major missed opportunity that Penn Station Access Hell Gate line (red line) will not have a station in Queens. This is the most feasible means of connecting the Bronx and Queens by rail! It’s a no-brainer and the Queens station could potentially link with LIRR, Amtrak & NJTransit in LIC by Qns Plaza
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/11/2024
The details are complicated but this housing stuff is generally pretty straightforward: we made it hard and/or illegal to build homes in places people want to live; so prices went up. To bring them back down, we need to change policy to make it easy to build.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We never question the billions (trillions?) that go into highway maintenance and expansion each year but if we even suggest building high speed rail it’s suddenly seen as a financing impossibility.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
At this point it’s time to acknowledge that the downzoning of our cities was a total policy failure. It has also made it increasingly impossible to generate new transit access.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We have to figure out how to fix this issue and fast. We should at least aim for a modest goal of one new subway station a year.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
NYC should not be struggling this much to pass pro-housing legislation. This anti-housing environment is not sustainable…
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 21/11/2024
#CityOfYes isn't just about housing — it's about jobs, wages, and access to opportunity, too. RPA research earlier this year found that the jobs and earning generated by #CityOfYes for Housing Opportunity would be four times greater than that of the Hudson Tunnel project.
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City of Yes — More Than Just Housing
Passing the full scope of City of Yes would mean 15,000-30,000 new jobs generating between $1.1 and $2.1 billion in earnings each year, and an overall economic impact of between $41 and $83 billion.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For areas where it would be unfeasible in the short term to build full subway lines we should be exploring light rail options, especially on wide major boulevards and streets. These light rail lines could then feed into other transit nodes with subway access.
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trainspiration.bsky.social @trainspiration.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NYC should aim for a moonshot goal of bringing rail access to every neighborhood in the city
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 15/11/2024
For children and families to succeed in NYC, we need to build more housing for everyone — and that means saying yes to #CityOfYes for Housing Opportunity.
citylimits.org
Opinion: For Our Children, Say 'Yes' to Housing
“Housing insecurity is directly correlated with negative impacts on the lifelong development and well-being of children, causing struggles in school and worse health outcomes, among many other long-te...
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Effective Transit Alliance @etany.org · 16/11/2024
ETA supports @thequeenslink’s project to revitalize the Rockaway Beach Branch & extend subway service in an underserved area of Queens. If you are unfamiliar with the project, here’s a thread to catch you up: (images courtesy of thequeenslink.org)
Map of M Line extension in QueensLink plan.Map of QueensLink plan included in complete NYC subway map.
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