Cap'n Transit

Did you know officers play a game of telephone to tell the switchboard operator how to close out a ticket?

Commissioner Tisch is ending that - officers will soon directly record responses to 311 requests.

I’ve been thinking about @carlquintanilla.bsky.social tweet for weeks.

It suggests Canada could turn off the taps to the USA before the midterms, send gas prices skyrocketing, and break Republicans’ hold on Congress, with little downside to ourselves.

This should be planned and done.

Parking garage safety is a huge preoccupation in building codes – but only when it comes to fire. I’ve never heard any concern for getting hit by cars, which I’m sure is a far higher risk.

I’ll say it again. There IS such a thing as “vertical sprawl.” It’s not tall buildings. It’s tall buildings IN CAR-DEPENDENT SPRAWL.

If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.

Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.

There are two of them? That explains a lot! Why didn't anyone tell me sooner?

Want to run social media for an aggressively reform-minded NYCDOT?

Now's your chance.

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Starting Tuesday! Most weekend trains are still running out of Penn Station; it's the weekday schedules when the Midtown Direct trains will be running out of Hoboken...

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DE-ADAMSIZATION: Mamdani Restores Multiple Street Redesigns Killed By Eric Adams - Streetsblog New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reviving four projects that bit the dust — often at the behest of powerful business interests — under Eric Adams.

Mayor Mamdani's Department of Transportation is kicking off a substantial revival of multiple street redesigns that bit the dust under former Mayor Adams, including projects that were explicitly opposed by local power brokers who endorsed Mamdani in 2025's general election. buff.ly/nvxh98T

Here's what bus riders in the Bronx have had to deal with on Fordham Road since Mayor Adams declined to enact a better roadway design.

Now, Mayor Mamdani is poised to install the long-awaited off-set bus lane. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/07/29/f...

Mamdani says his admin is ‘digging into’ restoring weekend G train service to Forest Hills | amNewYork Mayor Zohran Mamdani signaled on Wednesday that his administration is taking a serious look at advocates' renewed push to extend G train service to Forest

Mayor Mamdani signaled today that his administration is taking a serious look at advocates’ renewed push to extend G train service to Forest Hills on weekends for the first time in 15 years — even though the MTA has the final call on whether that will happen.
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I didn't realize that Roosevelt Island had huge off-ramps from the bridge to a big road on the west side of the island. Glad those are gone, but I'm sad that the State has gone back on its promise of a car-free island!

An accident means nobody can be held accountable, therefore a government that considers car crashes as accidents must never be allowed to build or operate roads.

This person has never been on a train

Tbh I'm kinda glad they put this out because I hate how everyone in my neighborhood has these f*cking cameras and they are posting videos of our minor children on FB all the time to complain about the kids stepping on their grass or literally touching their parked car during a snowball fight.

The second person to be killed by an SUV driver in a parking lot in NYC this weekend; the other victim was just 1 year old. Drivers don’t care about you, your family, or your safety, especially in parking lots. SUVs have terrible visibility and should be banned in cities.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Resident Jon Mannella challenged the lie that immigration agents target the “worst of the worse” and questioned why DHS and the City of Surprise would place them next to multiple schools if this smear was true. “I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops. You would pull out the tomes of English common law, dust them off, and try to find some appendix in there to make sure you didn’t have to build this building. Well just pretend that it’s that and put a stop to it.”

“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops."

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"His retirement from the Senate clears the path for state Sen. Jamaal Bailey to take over leadership when Stewart-Cousins leaves the position."

In other news, Stewart-Cousins is retiring?

Bailey has praised bus lanes, scooter share and speed cameras, so he'd probably be a good Majority Leader!

The graphic of how they’re entirely carving out and walling off both embankments that current lead to the freight tracks

John Pegram got the Jacobs engineering winning technical proposal for the IBX. This is a really fascinating look at just how much work the MTA and its contractor will need to do on the ROW. Which is, a lot. They’re turning into a trench — bqrail.substack.com/p/interborou...

Can’t wait to see the 20% risk premium that gets tagged onto every future project with a drop of federal funding because of this b%^*+s<>t

Notify NYC: Alternate Side Parking rules suspended today, 2/6 for snow removal. Meters in effect. Info: http://on.nyc.gov/1cAl5rj. nixle.us/H3349

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, minor request but one of these 'nudges' with outsized influence:

@nyc311.bsky.social alerts have a near daily parking reminder. 90% of New Yorkers don't need that.

Ask drivers to sign up for some special alerts only they need.

Send flower emojis to the rest of us.

You can enter from the Eighth Avenue and Central corridors, and the NJT elevators.

Prague didn't have the gates years ago, and I was fined by an inspector because I didn't realize that my pass had expired, but I don't know if they've changed things since then...

Where are my transit people - anyone know more about this old subway/train map on the floor of Grand Central?

It looks so cool but the full thing didn’t appear to withstand updates to flooring over the years. I saw it out of the corner of my eye in a tucked away corner near the food concourse.

What Happened To Car-Free 'Snow Routes' — And Could They Have Helped City Clear the Streets? - Streetsblog New York City What happened to the bright red signs that banned parking from snow emergency routes in New York City?

Remember those red "SNOW ROUTE" signs? In 2013, the city quietly removed every last one and abandoned the idea of snow routes altogether.

But who made that decision? And why does the city's official website still insist that these signs — and the snow routes they designate — exist?

Time for a toast with your @nytpitchbot.bsky.social mug!

Seriously, the Brooklyn Democratic organization being in disarray is an improvement over when it was an effective dissent suppression machine. But I would rather see it effectively represent residents!

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We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.

Insightful piece from @davidzipper.bsky.social: “If AVs are 20% safer than human drivers and expand total driving by 30%, total crashes would increase by 4%”

I think the jury is still out on how AVs are going to affect systemwide goals like Vision Zero.

Right on, but "undermine" sounds sneaky and evil. I'd say, "Are you willing to challenge the sanctity of a parking space?"