This is the penultimate reminder about Professor Brian Taylor’s upcoming talk at NYU Marron re: fare free transit. Cookies, coffee, tea, oh my! luma.com/p0sd5ou2
Today is probably the first time I feel this thing is not that far away from being ready for prime time.
Still a lot of work, but I hope we can have this online by the end of April 🤞🤞🤞
And a seat!
“He had come into the toughest playground in America looking for action and partially counting on acceptance because he owned a shiny bat and ball.”
We are hosting a talk with UCLA professor Brian Taylor about fare transit, determinants of transit ridership, and fare free trade offs at NYU Marron next week. Should be illuminating. Please join us at 370 Jay Street: luma.com/p0sd5ou2
the author was careful not to write the Central Park Zoo
"In 1885 the owners of 811, 813, 814, 815, 816, and 817 Fifth Avenue tried to persuade the Board of Estimate to remove the zoo from Central Park, saying the animals 'pollute the soil, thus rendering it offensive and unwholesome.' The zoo won the argument."
"When this is built, I want New Yorkers to take it for granted”
Thank you to @thecity.nyc @amysohn.bsky.social and Harry Siegel for having my on the podcast to discuss QueensLink!
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/07/q...
If one wanted to drive transformative modal shift in New York or anywhere, one would combine congestion pricing, street parking pricing, and employer/government transit fare subsidy. The latter is a ways away, but making progress on the first two, apparently:
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/m...
“It was said that whole mansions in Westchester County were built with materials stolen from Co-op City.”
An absolutely incredible bit
Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
I rounded up. Wikipedia says 192.
“People used to tell me that explaining jokes ruins them. But I enjoy it. Telling people why things are funny can be funny too.”
And dream bigger than 12k units on 200 acres!
We are talking A Better Billion at NYU Marron next week. Housing + Subway Expansion is catnip for New Yorkers. Definite cameos from @27a01.bsky.social, @vanshnookenraggen.com, @eensari.bsky.social, and @ndhapple.bsky.social. We will have food and beverages. Please join us! luma.com/ub7q20a6
Also @sandypsj.bsky.social what is going on with the CRRC plant in Massachusetts?
im into. the people need to know about rolling stock costs.
Just different contexts. Larger diameter, different delivery agency, etc. etc.
It’s a bad comp. No shame in that.
Yes. That seemed like a tough benchmark…
“The highway’s final cost came to $238 million, about six times the 1946 estimate, of almost $2 billion in today’s dollars, for 6.5 miles of highway.”
For everyone who asks us to do roads: “At first, planners estimated the Cross Bronx’s projected total cost at $38,670,000. When work had been underway for about a year, the estimate went up to $60 million.”
A BETTER BILLION, AMA: This is the latest report from the Transit Costs Project. It sought to take all the work we've done on subway construction and push it forward into a vision of what could/should be possible in NYC with a steady source of funding -- transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
We at the Transit Cost Project are hosting an event on our most recent report, "A Better Billion", at 370 Jay St in Brooklyn on March 4th.
If you are interested in hearing about the planning proposal in person and ask your burning questions on the report, RSVP on Luma here: luma.com/ub7q20a6
Also, there aren’t good local benchmarks to draw upon. We did draw up a few lines that did cross east river, but ended up going in a different direction.
LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/18/b...
Happy our project is getting some local news love.
@egoldwyn.bsky.social @ndhapple.bsky.social @27a01.bsky.social
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Look how much Canadians hate the United States now www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“Canadians were the most likely — among respondents in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. — to say the U.S. is not a reliable ally (58 percent).”
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
