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Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

Why Connecticut could pull electric trains off a rail line in favor of diesel DOT Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto said the return of diesel trains will allow the state to save money without cutting services.

Returning diesel trains to Shore Line East would be a disaster:

⬩Electric trains accelerate far faster, enabling quicker service with fewer delays

⬩Amtrak pricing aside, electric trains are far cheaper to operate & maintain

⬩Electric trains pollute less & are more reliable

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Regional rail

I kinda like suits, ngl

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🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING

NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR

Remarkable study amid the relentless right-wing attacks on immigrants in the US >>

Free buses are not "fantastic." It is mixed at best.

Yes ridership increased, but it was driven by people who only took it for short distances. Not drivers nor low income people.

Buses also gotten slower and are much more expensive to operate than trains.

So should we be subsidizing this? No.

Because free buses are not good policy.

Extending the Second Avenue subway across 125th St is a great concept, but the current project is deeply flawed:

* At $7.7B for 1.3mi, it will cost an order of magnitude more than similar lines in other global cities.

* Deep stations will waste a lot of time—over 10 min across 125th.

Wealthy New Yorkers Who Take Th... 17h X Why make buses free for poor and working class New Yorkers when you could instead earmark it for projects that will never happen, that might come online twenty years from now? Big brained urbanists! (not to mention the figures in the article are fantastical) sam @sam_d_1995•1d free buses are a nice perk but we should think bigger about how a billion dollars a year in new transit funding could truly transform the fabric of the city Paris is already doing it with the "Grand Paris Express", no reason we can't do it here in NYC too x.com/ericgoldwyn/st...

it’s kind of remarkable that we’ve reached a point where free buses (a tweak that will provide a marginal value to our overall transit network) is viewed as more progressive than a sustained investment in expanding mass transit in underserved areas across the city

That was George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani.

Yeah, and I want Mamdani to use his political capital to do this. Not a free bus system that has very mixed results and is expensive.

It isn't like Mamdani doesn't know what in house facilities are. He knows what they are and campaigned on those.

I am responding to your initial point that you prefer the fast and free bus plan over doing a massive subway program because it somehow it takes 40 years. I disagree, because it doesn't have to be this way.

No, we appeal to people's curiosity.

Just a reminder that change does not come from pessimists wanting to find any reason to shut down something, it comes from optimists who know things are hard yet fight for it anyway.

That is how you get the Madrid example.

I assure you, as someone who does political research, that is not the answer.

The correct answer is interest. That is how QL got this far w/o any support from the MTA.

And regarding that last point, does that mean the MTA can't expand the subways?

SAS2 is almost under construction, and I along with others are trying with QL.

And if we tell them we are going to lower transit costs so we can build a much faster subway line, how is that going to be received?

I work in political outreach. People love subways more than buses.

The better short term solution is bus lanes. Very fast and very cheap to implement. And that is what riders care about the most, speeds and frequency.

I'm saying that free buses is not good policy. The results are mixed, there is very little evidence to suggest to makes drivers switch to buses, and the increased ridership all take that for short trips. The high cost does not justify the benefits. That cost is better off for subways.

In response to your second point, of course. That is discussed in the report.

In fact, TOD is going to be the way you pay these projects. That is how it is done in other cities.

We are not gambling though. I am saying, just NYC in particular needs to fix its construction costs. It doesn't need to wait until CA or the feds tell them to.

The MTA was able to shave about $1B from SAS2. Did the MTA wait until CA lowered its transit cost? No. They just did it.

It doesn't have to be the US. Just NYC in particular.

And an "expensive gamble that historically never payed off" is a questionable claim. How much has the subways given in economic and social benefits to NYC?

Bus lanes are cheap. Free transit is not.

Madrid’s Modular Metro How to build a subway at half the cost and twice the speed, something most would say is impossible. But Madrid did it. Here’s how.

40 yr timelines are a stretch. Because this amount of new projects require a lot of the things that typically cut costs and timelines: in-house facilities, standardization, etc.

That's how Madrid was able to shorten the 10 yr timelines down to 4.

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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?

We're proud to present A Better Billion: how New York should be spending an extra $1b a year on subway expansion, in lieu of Zohran Mamdani's free bus proposal. transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

See gift article for a New York Times writeup here:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

Send this picture to every blue state elected leader and ask them what they’re doing to grow their state’s population.

If their response doesn’t include “more housing production,” ask them why they want to let Texas take congressional seats from us.

The Second Avenue Subway should have screen doors. New York doesn't do a lot of transit; the transit it does do should be world-class.

New York doesn't do a lot of transit; the transit it does do should be world-class. Read my latest article about the need for screen doors on the Second Avenue Subway now:

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It was designed for all day through express service. But that is not how Howard is usually used, as it is used for termination. Specifically, Purple has to switch over to the inner tracks and Red has to switch to the outer tracks, creating merging conflicts.

I was told elevated rail ruins neighbourhoods.

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