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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 3h

Another feather in my cap about how losing the UMTA and its huge research arm was the true origin of the American inability to build transit at reasonable cost

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4h

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again.

It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352

DOT ROSA P

ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT ...

rosap.ntl.bts.gov

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 4h

(also – they do?)

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 4h

The last time they tried to do it all the Class Is started breathing really heavily down Amtrak's back

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 1d

THE PERFUME DEPARTMENT

Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 1d

Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 3120 out of 5296

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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 1d

Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 3120 out of 5296

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yep, misread your quote from the article. One of many work rules needing reform...

Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 1d

Mandatory minimum pay feels pretty tame as far as LIRR work rules go? Isn't this pretty standard across the railroad industry? I know some friends in freight who always are happy when they get called, end up working like 3 hours, but make a full day's pay regardless

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 1d

It's an ad from Pan Am, which hasn't existed in 35 years

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely wild ad pull on an M3 today, I think car 9876?

Tattered Pan Am Shuttle ad stuck onto the back wall of a railcar with woodgrain paneling

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Saul Zabar passed away. For more than 70 years, he was the principal owner of the legendary Zabar’s market in #NYC. This #NYTMCollection image captures the Zabar’s storefront in 1957, twenty-three years into its time in business and seven years into Saul Zabar’s tenure.

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 2d

DC is like the fourth largest metro area in the country by most metrics. It's not some provincial backwater

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Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com · 2d

I'm gonna be live playing @Colin_d_m's Subway Builder a few days early! I guess I'm a gamer now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Rr...

[LIVE] I'm Playing Subway Builder Early!!

YouTube video by Miles in Transit

www.youtube.com

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 2d

Never thought I'd see the day. Can't wait for the more intense phase of this next year with the proper bus islands and more center lanes further down

Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 2d

Recorded a 50 minute timelapse of the new Flatbush Ave center running bus lanes this first rush hour, as DOT crews are still installing signage and stuff.

So far, it works! Drivers generally obey it and buses are clearly sped up. And don’t miss that ambulance bypassing traffic at the 6 second mark!

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 2d

Recorded a 50 minute timelapse of the new Flatbush Ave center running bus lanes this first rush hour, as DOT crews are still installing signage and stuff.

So far, it works! Drivers generally obey it and buses are clearly sped up. And don’t miss that ambulance bypassing traffic at the 6 second mark!

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 2d

And one of those sides' service is being actively harmed by the volume of illegal minibuses parking in the way of actual transit buses. But there's no clear right or wrong here!

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely having seen the volume of dollar vans on Flatbush, they contribute to the B41's unreliability, and are constantly double parked in the actual bus lanes. Someone with a more conspiratorial mind might even think they are trying to attract customers by harming MTA service.

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 4d

Metro-North open house at New Haven shops today!!

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 5d

Those are tourists not New Yorkers

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 6d

From the Transportation Library's Instagram - go Cubs! www.instagram.com/p/DPT4IapEYe...

Cover of 1980s era CTA brochure with title "go CTA to see the Cubs go" and photo of Wrigley Field.

Detail from CTA 1980s era brochure with Rapid Transit system map, Addison & Clark bus routes, and detail about using the CTA to visit Wrigley Field.

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Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 6d

NEW Report: States that voted for Trump got billions from MTA Spending

Companies in red states by U.S. Senate seats received more than $3.5 billion in MTA payments over 14 years. States that voted for Trump in 2024 received nearly $7 billion from the MTA over this period.

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 7d

Aren't there others on the Madison Metro network?

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sundog ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ 🔜 BLFC @coyote.tel · 7d

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

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Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com · 7d

In one of the more fraught adventures we've had in recent memory, Nathan and I attempt to travel from New York to Boston on transit...via Block Island! youtu.be/sw6Yv9k5kZ0

From New York to Boston...via Block Island?

Well yeah, how ELSE would you go?? Please fill out the survey and petition regarding RIPTA's service cuts here: https://pvdstreets.org/save-ripta/ RIPTA's Flex On Demand song:…

youtu.be

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