And one of the less successful union movements around the world as a result (saying this with no real knowledge of how racism maps onto unions in other countries)

I also just think, by nature of being a blog post, it's a little confusingly written. He's largely talking about the household poverty line for a family of four, but his wording drifts around and at a glance it's fair to be confused by if we're meant to be talking about an individual or a household.

The real synthesis here is a liberalized real estate market with an aggressively centralized transportation planning regime

I always think this is part of the argument that transit/urban advocates should embrace too, that car's are already such a miracle that why are we wasting all this effort to make them marginally more convenient at the expense of so much else in our built environment

What's the takeaway you're trying to get at? That secondary cities are just kind of screwed on growth?

Yeah, be interesting to try to weight this by service levels too, in anticipation of the upcoming push for 8 minute frequencies on some lines

Interesting note that it has average weekday ridership peaking in 2015 at 5.65 million

This is saying average weekday in 2019 as 5.49 million
www.mta.info/agency/new-y...

Going to be interesting to see if he wants to try to convert his volunteer army into a YIMBY army

the actual contrast is between spanberger/mamdani (focused message, vigorous campaigns) and sherrill (unfocused, half-hearted)

The headlines that have pics of Spanberger and Mamdani like "Which Way Modern Dem Man??" Come on. The answer is OBVIOUSLY (and has been, and will be) "both," "all," "whichever". What part of "gigantic diverse coalition of half the electorate" is confusing to people?

I am sympathetic to the view that he is trying to not burn political capital with the City Council by staying out of the ballot propositions. Hoping that is because he has his eye on more substantive zoning reforms.

Regret to not be informed about the incoming Jersey City mayor, what's the vibe on how good of a successor they'll be?