Eric Goldwyn

When @alonlevy.bsky.social and i started working together, we both thought that a wall of text with a picture and maybe a chart/table was advanced design. We know that’s wrong. We attempted to take our NEC work and add some good design. We are very happy with how this came out: nec.transitcosts.com

S.F. isn’t a finished product. It’s a work in progress. Can it ever learn to see itself that way? OPINION: What should the view from the Golden Gate Bridge look like 50 years from now? Surely, no one who seriously contemplates it would respond, “Exactly the same.”

Today is publication day for my book, "The Unfinished Metropolis"!

To mark the occasion, the @sfchronicle.com published an excerpt in which I explore what has and hasn't changed in SF's cityscape, and imagine what the city could look like in 50 years.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I wrote an op-ed in the daily news advocating for a transit mayor, something New York has not had in generations. While my op-ed is incredible, ***however***, I learned that the daily news publishes a magic eye?
enewspaper.nydailynews.com/shortcode/NE...

We have a new website for the Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail project, with illustrative graphics. nec.transitcosts.com

Sun, 10/19/25 New York needs a transit mayor

Wrote up my case for a transit mayor in @nydailynews.com. I believe @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can be that mayor! Let’s do this New York: enewspaper.nydailynews.com/shortcode/NE...

“Concrete experts like to say they don’t work •with• concrete; they work •for• concrete.”

Should the bus be free? Transit advocates are divided "Free buses" is one of the big ideas that helped Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. But the track record in cities that have stopped collecting fares is mixed.

We will discuss free buses for at least the next year! Free buses are okay. Faster, more frequent buses and a more expansive fair fares is better. Let’s translate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s enthusiasm for buses into real change in the next administration: www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

How is it being funded now?

Thank you. Very helpful. Did the final report not come out in March 2024?

Is there a good overview of fare free buses on Boston?

One of my favorite books to assign

I agree they’re not going to end your research efforts, but they provide the basic outline of every contract, every significant change order, and identify threads to pull on. Talking to people is a big part of how I work (you, too) and those reports help me get a lay of the land before interviews.

Operation Massacre

Plug for the English translation: www.sevenstories.com/books/3383-o...

Let the public speak and read: Gateway Development Commission meetings must allow live public comments and FTA’s Marc Molinaro must publish PMOC reports Tomorrow, the bistate Gateway Development Commission has a formal meeting with the commissioners participating remotely by telephone and the public entirely excluded, only able to watch on video.

Great to see the @nydailynews.com write an editorial about the importance of releasing monthly overview reports contextualize what is going on in these megaprojects. In my own research these PMOC reports have been invaluable (cc: @zacharyschrag.bsky.social): www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/29/l...

Copenhagen's deep metro stations have a very lean fire evacuation strategy.

Most egress capacity is provided by the 8 escalators (4 paths x 2 levels) normally used for vertical circulation with a single additional enclosed fixed stair at one end of the platform.

“I’m looking to be the Scott Boras of the hedge-fund world…”

“The forced technology transfer agreements meant to prop up China’s state-owned automakers instead robbed their need to invest in their own innovative capacities. China’s automative successes come from companies like privately owned BYD, which had no foreign partners…”

I don’t know. There are a lot of coffee shops.

in 2023, it looks to be ~20% for all light rail

me, too!

the good old days: "The Blue Line from San Ysidro
to Old Town is one of the most productive light rail lines in the country with 20 million annual
passengers and a farebox recovery of 64% in FY 2009."

Picked up Dan Wang’s Breakneck. He does not mince words: “Beijing enthralls not because it is nice but because it isn’t….Really, everything that can go wrong in urban design has gone wrong in Beijing.”

Electrolink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California Californians for Electric Rail September 2025 Cover shows a series of blue arrows in Metrolink livery and the Californians for Electric Rail Logo

Today, CER launches our paper “ElectroLink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California.”

ElectroLink shows how electrification, level boarding and through running can speed up trips, improve access for all riders, and bind together the region. ⚡♿🚴
calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

But why is Stephen taking Amtrak instead of metro-north????

Can’t say I have any useful thoughts, but I also noticed it and commented on it.

This is an excellent idea!

Today, the Center for Building published “Beyond Zoning” by John Zeanah, Memphis’s Chief of Development and Infrastructure. He chronicles the non-zoning barriers faced by Malone Commons, a low-rise multifam/mixed-use project, and how they worked through them www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...

But that’s not really analogous

Do other things poll like this? We support policy idea x but we also don’t necessarily think we should enact policy x?

Can someone translate this for me?