Matt Caywood

The @rpa.org was exactly right in proposing Triboro-RX (now IBX). Next-up should be the RER like T-Rex system that would vastly change the metro area by enabling people to live farther from Manhattan than ever before by turning commuter rail network into a regional metro.

only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago

A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.

A new survey found that biking is down -- way down -- among kids 7-17 over the last 30 years.

"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "

Yup.

Weaving is a refreshingly bizarre #datavisualization technique. Almost visualize 4 variables in one map! Hard to see correlations though

Well deserved. Just from the customer’s point of view - @wmata.com let us tap in with credit cards, restored automatic train operation, and rolled out secure fare gates - all in the last year.

“Bergen County and Hudson County, congestion pricing was responsible for cutting time spent in traffic by 14 percent and 12.8 percent respectively” 🔜 NJ stops suing NYC for fixing their problems?

Pittsburgh reduces fatal crashes, serious injuries for fourth year as city touts 'calming' traffic projects - Pittsburgh Union Progress Pittsburgh has concrete numbers to show its efforts to slow traffic and improve road safety are working. The city released statistics last week that show total crashes, fatalities and serious injuries...

I’m legit impressed by this. Pittsburgh has lowered traffic deaths for four years straight www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/15/p...

a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane Alt: a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane

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Back to the future! A whole generation of riders have missed out on the smooth grooves of ATO

This site is Under Construction, gifcities.org/search?q=Con...

Fantastic short history of the immigrant tech entrepreneurs who started today’s luxury watch industry

This “R&D disincentive” was amazingly stupid, hard to believe it hasn’t been repealed yet. Big tech companies didn’t fight for R&D as hard as expected.

Amazing. Vertical transportation carries more people than all other transportation, but as usual, America is in last place. Build more apartments and houses!

a grapf of the ridership recovery for the 10 largest US transit agencies, showing Washington DC at number one at 88% of pre-pandemic ridership

Washington DC now officially has the strongest post-pandemic transit ridership recovery of any metro area in the United States, recently beating out New York City!!

I’ve read it. Important to understand that attraction and retention are different processes. BlueSky doesn’t have a retention problem relative to Twitter. It has an attraction and growth problem, which is why they just rolled out new sharing features.

Jarrett, I tried to find you a customer retention curve for public transportation for comparison.

I couldn't.

Apparently, no industry thinks less about customer retention (of "choice riders") than public transportation. Wonder why. @bikepedantic.bsky.social

What is good retention Although retention is widely considered to be the most important metric to get right when building (or investing in) a business, it’s also one of the least understood. Why? Because unless you’re a gro...

This is a normal customer retention curve.

Look at Twitter's retention: in 2020 (peak social media) Twitter retained 31% of users after 3 months! Pretty bad, worse now! www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/what-is-go...

a graph of daily ridership at the NoMA-Gallaudet University metro station over the last 10 years, showing growth going from 6k to 8k by 2019 and then skyrocketing to 12k by 2025

Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.

The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights

How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

For total cost of ownership I prefer Tern GSD, since my local bike shop offers a service plan and won’t work on RadPower

Can you please turn on Logged Out Visibility? I'd like to share this with users who aren't logged into BlueSky. techcrunch.com/2023/12/22/b...

Mountaineering site SummitPost covers the whole solar system www.summitpost.org/olympus-mons...

Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene: An Ecological Study of Droplet Infections : William Firth Wells : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Historically significant book and landmark monograph on air hygiene that drew on 23 years of research. Wells' work on droplet size and the airborne...

Great podcast. @carlzimmer.com mentioned Wells' important book "Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene" is hard to find, but a free high-quality scan is at archive.org (uploaded as an emergency measure during COVID) archive.org/details/airb...

Is it just me or did they completely break the IRS FIRE system for filing business returns? Can't log in, can't reset password, can't create account

Google has crowdsourced this data from Waze since acquiring it in 2013. Waze operates independently of Maps but usage has been flat/declining for several years. My suspicion is Google plans to finally sunset Waze and needs to crowdsource data though Maps.

What’s the best way to get an ad-free Super Bowl tomorrow? Planning to use YouTubeTV as a DVR, are there other streams that are completely ad free?

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

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Scrubbing your personal information from scammy people-search websites and data brokers is a great new year's resolution. You will need a service because there's too many to do it yourself. Optery @optery.bsky.social is a good choice with free and monthly plans. www.pcmag.com/reviews/optery

Global CO2 emissions from road transportation could peak in 2025, topping out at around 9Gt, then fall to ~7Gt in 2050

This is decades earlier than previous forecasts, and shows the decarbonization power of EVs ⚡🚗.

N.Y.C. Congestion Pricing Begins on Sunday After twists and turns, a contentious plan meant to reduce traffic and pay for transit improvements is scheduled to take effect at midnight Sunday.

A watershed moment for the US, and he most important urban transportation reform of my lifetime.

Congrats to all the activists, planners, and policymakers who made this possible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...