Cap'n Transit

Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.

The Manhattan luxury apartment market surged in the month after Zohran Mamdani's election: “There is no Mamdani effect.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's amazing how Republicans are, to a man or woman, devoted to unnecessarily killing more Americans no matter the setting.

AVs will be safer than humans, they say. Safety is our top priority, they say.

Tech will not save us. Only accountability and better policy will.

I'm wondering the same thing about @sengianaris.bsky.social!

Don't you hate it when drivers block bus stops in Western Queens? Why would you vote to let them do it in Co-op City?

Reinvent Albany commends the new @mta.info Capital Dashboard powered by open data. This upgrade shows the MTA's progress on rebuilding and modernizing the subways, buses, and commuter railroads. Check out the top 4 things we like about it!
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In case anyone does not see how dishonest this is, it's just basic propaganda. You find someone somewhere (hopefully a pretty white woman!) that was legitimately harmed, and then you just constantly repeat that story until ppl associate it with ebikes. Eventually come to associate ebikes with danger

Footnote: this superfluous federal parking garage should have been an affordable housing development site years ago

OMG Ben so proud!

I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:

1. Mod or Prog

2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.

There's a post making the rounds here on bsky that holds up the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956 as an example. Keep in mind that over the following 40 years, bus service in Montgomery was cut 70%, and then eliminated entirely from 1997-2000. Service currently runs once an hour, 5:30am to 7:30pm.

Today, #Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 8002, which removes minimum parking mandates STATEWIDE for residential developments with less than 16 homes, and largely removes them for projects with more than 16 homes.

I’m grateful for all of the parking reformers who worked hard to pass this!

Tear it down!

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.

A city with a few hundred robotaxis is cool and futuristic, but with 100,000+ it'll be gridlocked and dangerous.

All the more reason for local leaders to adopt congestion pricing and automatic traffic enforcement ASAP.

Bring back Dumpling D'or!

Latest newsletter from a leading NYC housing market commentator begins: "Despite 'wealth flight' headlines about the next NYC Mayor Mamdani, current data show no evidence of a high-end exodus, and NYC’s luxury segment remains active."

A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.

WSJ Exclusive 1h ago Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat

Freedom!

the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"

Rick Cotton is stepping down from the Port Authority. We need to pressure Hochul to appoint someone who cares about transit.

@capntransit.bsky.social has been saying for years that transportation modes compete with each other, and driving always wins when all are treated equally.

Also that we've spent hundreds of millions on upgrades for LGA, Kennedy and Newark, that would have moved a lot more people if we'd spent them upgrading the trains!

Weird how McGreevey is copying Cuomo's playbook. I hope it fails for him the same way!

Weird how there’s always a transit funding shortfall, but never a roads funding shortfall! 🤔

Synthetic voters/audiences are increasingly being used by political campaigns. They’re being sold as a more affordable alternative to real focus groups and polls.

This is a horrible idea for many reasons, including that the results are weird and bad.

Security Blanket: Will NYPD Smother Mamdani’s Love of Transit and Bikes? - Streetsblog New York City Zohran Mamdani spent his mayoral campaign riding the subway and biking around — but the demands of City Hall may test his transit habit.

Zohran Mamdani spent his mayoral campaign riding the subway and biking around — but the demands of City Hall may test his transit habit.

EVERY time a country discusses moving its capital, there's always a bunch of dumbfucks who think of it as a colonization or real estate development project.

You want your capital to be comfortable and accessible, where people already live. Don't put it in a remote desert. This is not hard, people!

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal

Help fix the bathrooms & drinking fountains in our parks!

See you this Monday, Nov. 24
Rally at noon: FOLEY SQUARE
with @voteshekar @ShahanaFromBK @SandyforCouncil
RSVPee: ny4p@ny4p.org

Hearing at 1 pm: 250 Broadway

Please sign the petition, too: bit.ly/parksbathrooms

It’s almost impossible to measure what people prefer in an environment where all kinds of factors influence where and how people live. There’s also an obvious absence of choice in most of the country. I’d warn against saying any evidence is all-caps overwhelming one way or the other.

"In a car, a mayor can read documents, make phone calls, talk with aides, or just think."

I've written before about the inequity of the "mobile office."

Okay, most of us can read on the subway without people wanting to take selfies. But we can't take meetings - without annoying everyone around!