With news of NYC Mayor’s initiative to construct thousands of affordable housing units over Sunnyside Yard, major opportunity to build the first direct rail link between Queens and the Bronx with a MetroNorth Station at Sunnyside Station via the Penn Station Access route @mayor.nyc.gov

Fantastic news but really should include a stop at the proposed Sunnyside Station as well!

Amtrak extension to Long Island including stops at Sunnyside Station and Jamaica

The purpose of American zoning is to make housing more expensive.

It does that by outlawing inexpensive homes like apartments on the overwhelming majority of residential land, which is reserved exclusively for the most expensive kind of housing: detached single family homes.

M60 SBS

Good point

Hopefully a dedicated bus lane too!

If you are wondering what you can do during anxious times—at the local level you can start by communicating with your representatives and attending community meetings to demand more housing and public transit. We cannot afford to be NIMBYs whatsoever at this point.

This is directly responsible for why we do not have high speed rail in this country.

This zoning is out of context with a healthy existence

Erik Bottcher @ebottcher • 19h I strongly believe in the need to build more housing in all neighborhoods, but a height of 600 feet (60 stories) is obviously out of scale for the Meatpacking District. I have asked the city to pause releasing this RFP and instead issue one with a more appropriate height. @ 171 1768 0 54 企 Erik Bottcher @ebottcher. 40m Is it possible to be both YIMBY while also feeling that 60 stories is a tad bit tall for the West Village? Asking for a friend.

if anyone lives in Manhattan, please call Councilmember Bottcher’s office at 212-564-7757 and (respectfully!) tell him you support 60 stories of mixed income housing in Gansevoort Square!

Dems truly cannot afford to be NIMBYs in the Trump era

There should honestly be a minimum requirement of 60 stories in Manhattan.

LGBTQ+ youth flee hateful states: 266,000 young people have moved to more inclusive states - LGBTQ Nation They don't want to live in states that are legislating away their rights.

You can't be a sanctuary for people without affordable housing 🏘️

We need to fight to protect human rights across the United States and we also need to make great cities and states affordable for those who want to move.

I guess I was thinking the city/state would build the public housing and the market rate housing so no need for private developer involvement.

Honest question—why can’t we just use public plots to build thousands of free housing units and finance it with an equal number of market rate units on the same site? This would solve the housing crisis instantaneously.

Through-running at Penn Station is one of the most essential infrastructure projects in the NYC Metropolitan region and possibly the entire East Coast

Time for some crosstown light rails on some of Manhattan’s major streets—23rd, 34th, 59th, 125th etc. 🚉

The current model of reflexive low density planning is simply unsustainable.

Incredibly frustrating that the first question asked anytime new transit is proposed is whether ridership projections can support it. That narrow way of thinking fails to consider induced demand, future growth, and also that projected ridership is almost always estimated far too conservatively.

Hoping for many new trains this year 🚅🚃🚊🚝

The reflex even among pro-transit people is to ask if a transit project is too costly. There’s never consideration of the opportunity cost of not building. Imagine if the NYC subways had never been built how many trillions of dollars that would have cost. It is unaffordable not to build transit.

Whatever Madrid is doing to expand its rail network so quickly must be implemented everywhere else immediately. Madrid expanded its entire network for the same price as single line expansions in other cities. There’s no time to wait or pass the task onto the next generation—this has to be done now.

Individual states might be able to chip in and work with Amtrak

At a time when Amtrak ridership is surging we need to be boldly investing in increased service and EXPANDING ROUTES. It is so critical that we do this at the current juncture.

City of Yes unfortunately does not go nearly far enough to address the housing crisis. 80,000 new housing units over 15 YEARS is not even close to what is truly needed—at least 100,000 new units per year.

All highway maintenance and expansion to be complemented by new parallel rail lines (including high speed rail)

We need to streamline the planning/building of transit projects to the point they can be delivered within one governor’s 4 to 8 year term.

NYC mayoral candidate Zellnor Myrie proposes building 70,000 units per year & 700,000 units over a decade, a bit less than the city built in the 1920s—and a bit more than the city built in the 50 years between 1970 & 2020.

In 2023, NYC permitted 32,000 units.

The M60 would be a great option for bus rapid transit if it had dedicated lanes over the Grand Central and Triborough Bridge

A new subway in Thessaloniki (Greece’s second largest city) has opened!

Also it’s been said time and again but it is WAY too expensive to build basic transit infrastructure in the U.S.