Cap'n Transit Rides Again

For many years now we've dealt with extreme weather events.

I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patterns directly.

In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attack the general concept of short-term housing rental outside of hotels.

In August of 2011 I wrote a series of posts about Summer Streets.

Since Governor Hochul announced her "indefinite pause" on congestion pricing on June 7, I've been one of several people who pointed out that it would have improved almost everyone's lives.

VIP Express Transportation provides service every two hours between Upper Manhattan, Paterson and the Poconos It's another guest post from long time reader George K!

Some climate advocates have adopted a strategy that they call "Making Polluters Pay."

A photo I downloaded from one of the neighborhood groups when I was a member.

I remembered the National Transit Database a bit earlier this year, so here are the top hitters for 2022, and we can see the ridership recovery already.

With a bunch of articles in the news recently about private intercity bus service, it's important to keep in mind several points: No transportation is completely private.

The site of the Champlain Towers South partial collapse in Surfside, Florida.

Alexander asked on Twitter about the series of posts I did on farebox recovery ratios reported to the United States National Transit Database from 2007 through 2010.

Recently I wrote about the people who claimed to be "fleeing" the disease-ridden cities, but in actuality were in no more danger from COVID-19 in their urban apartments than in the exurban houses they moved to.

If you read some accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic, you'll come across the idea that people "fled the cities" en masse - that the cities were seething pits of disease and death, that everyone who could leave did, and that they were justified in doing so.

I listen to a few podcasts that cover issues of land use and transportation, and they tend to be heavy with urban planners.

Starrett-Lehigh Building: II. 601 West 26th Street, from Eleventh Avenue and 23rd street looking northeast past the West Side Express Highway, Manhattan.

Recently I wrote about how, in the nineties and early 2000s, discussions about transit advocacy were short on hope and full of negativity.

Recently on Twitter I attacked the practice of transferring resources from city dwellers to country dwellers.

When I first got into transit advocacy it was a lonely place.

Recently we've seen a rash of articles that talk about "suburbs in the city," or "suburbanizing the city."

Recently I had another Twitter argument with a transit budget hawk.

I was listening to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Ben Kabak's new podcast, promoting his proposal to transfer control of the New York City subways from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is controlled by the Governor, to a new board c…

In June the Long Island Railroad instituted an "Atlantic Ticket" for people traveling on weekdays between southeast Queens and stops along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.

Recently I've appreciated Aaron Gordon's transit reporting in the Village Voice and elsewhere.

They say Central Park is now car-free.