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Because this project will be fully grade separated, it should be built as automated light metro (e.g., Toulouse Metro, Milan M5, Honolulu Skytrain). This can enable:
—More reliable & often faster service
—More frequent service
—Shorter platforms (& thus cheaper-to-build stations)

Please email Kathy Hochul and tell her this. She will ultimately be making the decision. The union is going to lobby hard against driverless, so the governor needs to hear from New Yorkers that we want better service and lower costs: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

I'm not a big "civilization is in decline" guy, but man, Google Docs moving Footnotes to an opaque submenu while maintaining an Emoji button sure does have "civilization in decline" energy.

Lessons from the forgotten history of Democratic abundance Moderates and leftists misunderstand the 1990s. That is stopping them from seeing their joint path forward.

This from @henrymjtonks.bsky.social is v good. "Abundance need not be an instrument of Democratic factional competition. Instead, it has the potential to unite the liberal-left together around a vision for how to implement grand Democratic ambitions." hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/lessons-fr...

The case against debate It's a skill, but it's not the same as truth-seeking or persuasion

This is all 1000% true.

The truth is, good design is an industrial policy question.

You can’t build beautifully if you can’t build within your industrial strengths.

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

The earlier you donate to candidates the better; it helps them kick off a self-reinforcing cycle of volunteers->canvassing->more volunteers->more canvassing->more voters.

Cambridge has been a bright spot in a not-great year for policy, and Burhan's been making it happen. Let's prove that good policy is also good politics!

In addition to being at the forefront of the urbanist/YIMBY movement, Burhan is one of the kindest, most thoughtful officials I have ever met. Please donate to his campaign if you can: secure.actblue.com/donate/commi...

South Korea’s Amorepacific Weighs Faster US Manufacturing Pivot South Korea’s leading cosmetics maker Amorepacific Corp. is accelerating efforts to bring manufacturing to the US as Donald Trump’s tariff blitz threatens to upend the company’s reliance on its major ...

Glad to see we're really moving up the value chain here

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Harvard says no to Trump.

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

Broke: evil BBB
Woke: evil IRA

congrats!! now time to start substacking about annoying undergrads

new electrical transformers here already had 3-5 year lead times when foreign capacity was included

The Playbook item screenshotted

Momentum in the NY PM Playbook — www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The 'Momentum' cover page, which a twin-hued abstracted version of an M, which has been central to the identity of metros and passenger rail services around the world.

The NYU-Marron report on electrification is out: It pairs electrification and other components to develop a high-throughput infrastructure design framework, which slashes time off of existing commuter and inter-city passenger rail services. We call it Momentum -- transitcosts.com/wp-content/u...

Kind of ironic if Malthusian zoning ends up creating the political economy that makes robust public development and zoning reform possible

Financialization is an utterly unhelpful explanation for tackling underinvestment.* At best, it results in pushing on a string. At worst, it exacerbates the problem or harms policy for greasing a capex boom.

* The exception is when describing certain outcomes of investment barriers like NIMBYism!

correct

Degrowth Donald strikes again!

Great review that’s right-on in addressing Abundance’s finance blind spot

paulkrugman.substack.com Because that's what's happening. As Sam Deutsch documents, congestion pricing is actually looking like a "policy miracle." It's sort of a real-life example of a tax doing what Trump falsely claims taxes on imports (tariffs) will do: produce win-win-win results, with hardly any losers. Traffic is down, so much so that many of those still driving into the city are finding that the extra $9 fee is more than offset by the benefits of faster commutes. Public transit ridership is way up: Avg. Daily Ridership, Subways & Buses +9.2%, Avg. Daily Ridership, LIRR & MNR +11.8%, +7.8% 3.05M 3.33M +12.7% 1.06M 1.19M Subway Bus Source: New York State Open Data, January 5-March 6, 2024 vs. 2025| 199.1K 178.2K 156.7K 168.9K 2024 1 2025 LIRR MNR Source: Better Cities

this is the greatest day of my life @pkrugman.bsky.social extensively just cited my article on congestion pricing

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-and-t...

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.

El Salvador is stealing our prison jobs and undermining our prison industrial complex. 🙃

The definitive takes on Abundance.

If I’m Canada I’m getting pretty excited about joint ventures and getting access to BYD’s charging tech