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I knew Tyler Cowen was a total fraud when he opposed congestion pricing in NYC.
an economist opposing congestion pricing is like a biologist refusing to believe in evolution.
direct proof of being an ideological hack and all-around moron
an economist opposing congestion pricing is like a biologist refusing to believe in evolution.
direct proof of being an ideological hack and all-around moron
January 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
I knew Tyler Cowen was a total fraud when he opposed congestion pricing in NYC.
an economist opposing congestion pricing is like a biologist refusing to believe in evolution.
direct proof of being an ideological hack and all-around moron
an economist opposing congestion pricing is like a biologist refusing to believe in evolution.
direct proof of being an ideological hack and all-around moron
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NEW INVESTIGATION: What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50.
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...
What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50 - Streetsblog New York City
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, a Streetsblog investigation found.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
NEW INVESTIGATION: What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50.
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...
Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...
LA Metro needs to hike fares to $3 already.
I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
LA Metro needs to hike fares to $3 already.
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“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
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I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".
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Great appointment, but also disband it.
Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
Kathryn Garcia Expected to Be Named New Head of the Port Authority
Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Great appointment, but also disband it.
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Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
Kathryn Garcia Expected to Be Named New Head of the Port Authority
Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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Report: 94% of World’s Transit Lines Operated by One Person
Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two
See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project
buff.ly/Umk9Dc0
Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two
See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project
buff.ly/Umk9Dc0
Report: 94% of World’s Subways Operated by One Person. Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two - Reinvent Albany
NYU Marron Center Report Shows 94% of the World’s Subway Systems Use One Person – Or Are Automated Gov. Hochul Must Veto Wasteful, Politically-Motivated Bill Requiring Two Train Operators An…
reinventalbany.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Report: 94% of World’s Transit Lines Operated by One Person
Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two
See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project
buff.ly/Umk9Dc0
Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two
See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project
buff.ly/Umk9Dc0
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Los Angeles is trying to avoid HLA by claiming that it is “restriping without making other improvements” when, in fact, it’s making many other changes across multiple projects.
This behavior must stop.
Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works
This behavior must stop.
Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Los Angeles is trying to avoid HLA by claiming that it is “restriping without making other improvements” when, in fact, it’s making many other changes across multiple projects.
This behavior must stop.
Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works
This behavior must stop.
Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works
Jeffries is a really uninspiring leader.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Jeffries is a really uninspiring leader.
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.
Nandert is genuinely such a critical part of LA's transit community. Great video on the vermont corridor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTF...
Rounding Out LA's Holy Trinity of Future Rail
YouTube video by nandert
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nandert is genuinely such a critical part of LA's transit community. Great video on the vermont corridor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTF...
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So-called “inclusionary zoning” is a tax on new housing that reduces the amount of housing that gets built, worsening the housing shortage and driving up rent. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.
Building housing is a left issue.
Taxing housing to build housing means less housing.
Less housing means more pressure on your housing market and higher rents.
Build the housing. And don’t let NIMBYs stop or slow us downs
Taxing housing to build housing means less housing.
Less housing means more pressure on your housing market and higher rents.
Build the housing. And don’t let NIMBYs stop or slow us downs
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
So-called “inclusionary zoning” is a tax on new housing that reduces the amount of housing that gets built, worsening the housing shortage and driving up rent. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.
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1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis?
By running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, he's putting the "Abundance" theory to the test.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
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Let’s fucking goooo
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Let’s fucking goooo
Honestly the fitness obsession that has taken over society is part of the same cultural wave that has made fascism normal.
It’s fun to contrast dhs’ ultra fash nostalgia aesthetics on social with the reality that you would find higher fitness standards in a spin class on the upper east side
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Honestly the fitness obsession that has taken over society is part of the same cultural wave that has made fascism normal.
Bernie is like an all-star for surrounding himself with the worst people. Literally no one around him has turned out to be an upstanding citizen.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Bernie is like an all-star for surrounding himself with the worst people. Literally no one around him has turned out to be an upstanding citizen.
You don’t hate CEQA enough tbh.
Democracy lost to CEQA again.
A San Diego appeals court invalidated voter-approved height limit removal because the environmental report wasn't detailed enough.
Removal was twice approved by voters, but now killed by three judges over documentation.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/18/c...
A San Diego appeals court invalidated voter-approved height limit removal because the environmental report wasn't detailed enough.
Removal was twice approved by voters, but now killed by three judges over documentation.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/18/c...
Court orders reinstatement of 30-foot height limit in San Diego’s Midway District
Appellate court ruling finds that the city of San Diego violated state environmental law and abused its power by putting a 2022 ballot measure before voters without the proper analysis.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You don’t hate CEQA enough tbh.
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I'm not an expert on California politics but this strikes me as big news. State Senator Scott Wiener is going to run for Pelosi's seat regardless of what she does. Again, primaries are good. And from everything I've heard he's a serious legislator.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from California state lawmaker
State Sen. Scott Wiener is expected to announce next week that he will run for the San Francisco House seat regardless of whether the former speaker retires.
www.politico.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm not an expert on California politics but this strikes me as big news. State Senator Scott Wiener is going to run for Pelosi's seat regardless of what she does. Again, primaries are good. And from everything I've heard he's a serious legislator.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Weiner is one of the best legislators in California. Definitely deserves the seat.
I'm not an expert on California politics but this strikes me as big news. State Senator Scott Wiener is going to run for Pelosi's seat regardless of what she does. Again, primaries are good. And from everything I've heard he's a serious legislator.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from California state lawmaker
State Sen. Scott Wiener is expected to announce next week that he will run for the San Francisco House seat regardless of whether the former speaker retires.
www.politico.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Weiner is one of the best legislators in California. Definitely deserves the seat.
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
cayimby.org
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...