You saying you don’t like getting off at Mt Vernon Square 7th Street Convention Center station?

Makes you appreciate NYC real estate people who would have imposed an at least somewhat more sensible name like NorClare or something

omg throwback

I think employment protections are a big part of it but the standout (especially recently) is female employment, women in the US work at much lower rates than in almost any other high income country, a ton of that is due to the horrible healthcare, childcare, parental leave policies

~1/4 of all public transit trips in the US are on the NYC subway!

Unfortunately, we don't yet have data on the two other major US transit openings that happened in October (the extension of the Honolulu Skyline and Kansas City Streetcar), but hopefully will have those numbers next month!

Ridership on Phoenix's Valley Metro is also up more than 12% since the opening of the B line to South Phoenix this summer—October ridership was only slightly down from the post-COVID high set in September

Seattle's Link Light Rail also remains one of the fastest-growing transit networks in the US, with ridership up 22% compared to last year!

Tomorrow, the network will open another southbound extension to Federal Way, increasing ridership further!

Ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain continues to rise in the wake of the route's electrification, hitting a new post-COVID high last month

Ridership through the first 10 months of 2025 is 45% higher than last year!

All major US urban rail networks gained ridership this year, with DC's WMATA leading the way at 20.4%. That's followed by Boston's MBTA at 13.9%, SF Muni at 10.6%, & the Bay Area's BART at 10.2%

LA Metro (.3%), San Diego's MTS (3.5%), & the NYC MTA (4.6%) have the slowest growth

Canadian Unemployment by Province:

Newfoundland & Labrador: 10.4%
Prince Edward Island: 7.7%
Ontario: 7.6%
Nova Scotia: 6.7%
New Brunswick: 6.6%
Alberta: 6.5%
British Columbia: 6.4%
Manitoba: 6.1%
Saskatchewan: 5.6%
Quebec: 5.1%

Lots of pharmaceutical production for the US, it really distorts their GDP figures (debatable how much of the value is really Irish versus American)

In terms of per-capita GDP growth, all but 5 EU countries have recovered to pre-COVID levels

Fastest: Ireland (36.3%), Croatia (24.6%), Belgium (21.9%), Poland (19.6%), Cyprus (18.3%)

Slowest: Luxembourg (-3.7%), Finland (-2.2%), Germany (-1.7%), Estonia (-1.4%), Austria (-0.8%)

All EU countries except Germany and Finland have now recovered to pre-COVID GDP levels

Fastest: Ireland (50.2%), Malta (35.8%), Cyprus (30.1%), Croatia (22.8%), Bulgaria (18.5%)

Slowest: Germany (-0.2%), Finland (-0.0%), Estonia (2.0%), Austria (2.8%), France (5.2%)

Friends don’t let friends forget the chicken tax

to Israel

not looking forward to whatever mess the USMCA negotiations will be next year. We’ve basically punted on setting policy with our two most important trading partners since May at this point.