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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 7h

Money is finite, hard to see how you can find $800 million annually to make busses free and also fund better service and streetscape improvements (ie BRT) that make busses faster.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 7h

A good assumption would be that if it’s a mayoral initiative, then the mayor will pay for it. The city already pays for fair fares, student passes and senior discounts.

The city already paid for a free bus pilot in each borough.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 9h

…the question really is what is the greatest use of that $800 million year or so. What good are free busses if the service is so bad that people don’t want to ride?

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 9h

THe best arguments imo are that money that is spent on free busses should be spent on improving service, which is shown to be what riders prefer and leads to better outcomes.

Also, about 30-40% of bus trips are intermodal so the actual effect of free busses, especially w/o improving service…

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 11h

I actually thought this was satire. There are good, real grounded arguments against free busses.

Cuomo has picked (easily) the most nonsensical one.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 1d

Around 15 years ago, I was arguing that this a terrible design and it shouldn’t be built. Now they’re shutting it down. Hate to be proven right this way! Listen to the technical transit advocates – they are always right, even if you are too allistic to see it.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 1d

The shortest lived transit project in recent history? I hope this is the nail in the coffin of slow, expensive streetcar projects.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 3d

Everything we have done has been to pave the way for this:

www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

www.nyc.gov

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 3d

More people in the “press” need to do work asking how “states rights conservatives” have gotten to this point.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 5d

New Yorkers are craving secure bike parking: this one small station has had 2,000 unique users in just two years!

More of these units — and larger facilities — will mean that more New Yorkers will have the peace of mind to try biking, without having to worry about theft.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

Last month we celebrated the two year anniversary of Oonee Hudson Square with local BID.

Personally, on this journey I am most proud of the way that NYC communities have embraced our initial bike parking stations-- hard 2 believe that ppl were once skeptical bc they were afraid of blowback.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

This was our most complex installation to-date, involving the complex installation of power access across the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. The project also included a new mural, plantings and public art.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

Last month we celebrated the two year anniversary of Oonee Hudson Square with local BID.

Personally, on this journey I am most proud of the way that NYC communities have embraced our initial bike parking stations-- hard 2 believe that ppl were once skeptical bc they were afraid of blowback.

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Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr. @streetfilms.bsky.social · 5d

Well look at that....it turns out the entire Mark Sanchez stabbing fiasco was all over.... A PARKING SPACE!! @nyc.streetsblog.org @thewaroncars.bsky.social @shabazzstuart.bsky.social @urbanismspeakeasy.com @usa.streetsblog.org

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/s...

Mark Sanchez now facing felony charge in Indianapolis fight that left him hospitalized with stab wounds | CNN

Former NFL quarterback and current analyst Mark Sanchez is facing a felony charge for his role in an altercation that led to the former New York Jet being stabbed early Saturday morning.

www.cnn.com

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think so, it was just described as a "car crash" on the MTA alerts. I also cannot imagine that the NYPD would engage in a car chase on a narrow residential street in a densely populated neighborhood, but who knows...

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure. This was left there for a few hours a mater the crash occurred. I cannot imagine the NYPD would conduct a police chase on a narrow residential street but idk.