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Bridges all over New York have improved since the start of congestion pricing.
May 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bridges all over New York have improved since the start of congestion pricing.
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It’s pretty simple for Maryland moving forward. They have to go to the Sweet 16 or this season will feel like a failure. Sweet 16 is a good outcome. An Elite 8 (or anything more, obviously) will be one of the best 5 seasons in program history.
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It’s pretty simple for Maryland moving forward. They have to go to the Sweet 16 or this season will feel like a failure. Sweet 16 is a good outcome. An Elite 8 (or anything more, obviously) will be one of the best 5 seasons in program history.
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I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier
February 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier
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Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.
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trans people put up with an incomprehensible degree of bullshit every day just to exist in our world. anyone who'd still wanna work for the government after that, to enrich a country that shovels complete shit on them at all times, is in the 100th percentile of patriotism. bullying them is vile
January 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
trans people put up with an incomprehensible degree of bullshit every day just to exist in our world. anyone who'd still wanna work for the government after that, to enrich a country that shovels complete shit on them at all times, is in the 100th percentile of patriotism. bullying them is vile
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My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
Max capacity passengers per hour:
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
* Boring Co’s Vegas Loop: 4,500
* NYC subway 6 train: 105,000
January 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
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i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread
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It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
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NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
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Which is a big reason why all the worst people you know vehemently oppose it.
“New York City’s congestion pricing, which began this month, might already be one of the most effective climate policies ever enacted in the United States.”
New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Working. Now Comes the Real Test.
Commute times are down, and subway numbers are up. But the conservative attacks have not stopped.
newrepublic.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Which is a big reason why all the worst people you know vehemently oppose it.
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“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.
January 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.
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Data privacy rights are like bullet trains, walkable cities, and universal healthcare, a pipe dream, a utopian fantasy, something that's standard elsewhere but portrayed as utterly impossible in the United States.
Hear me out: What if, instead of infringing on Americans’ rights and taking stuff away from them, Congress gave them even *more rights*?
If that sounds good to you, that’s fundamentally what a national data privacy law — governing all companies, not just the Big Bad of the day — is all about.
If that sounds good to you, that’s fundamentally what a national data privacy law — governing all companies, not just the Big Bad of the day — is all about.
January 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Data privacy rights are like bullet trains, walkable cities, and universal healthcare, a pipe dream, a utopian fantasy, something that's standard elsewhere but portrayed as utterly impossible in the United States.
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Every Boomer who warned our generation about the dangers of the internet never took their own advice.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every Boomer who warned our generation about the dangers of the internet never took their own advice.
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I'm supposed to believe this thing won't hit me in a crosswalk
January 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm supposed to believe this thing won't hit me in a crosswalk
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“we didn’t mooch off our neighbors” the only reason new jersey exists is so people can work in new york without paying new york taxes
So New Jersey Transit is free now for New Yorkers and turnpike tolls are waived? Great! Glad to hear it.
January 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“we didn’t mooch off our neighbors” the only reason new jersey exists is so people can work in new york without paying new york taxes
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Fewer cars in cities is good, and municipal governments should do everything it can to limit them.
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Fewer cars in cities is good, and municipal governments should do everything it can to limit them.
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this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
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If you drive to a lower Manhattan Shake Shack, it should be legal for me to do trepanation to you in order to release the howling demons from your skull
January 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you drive to a lower Manhattan Shake Shack, it should be legal for me to do trepanation to you in order to release the howling demons from your skull
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The NYC Subway is our Pyramids. A great civilizational achievement.
January 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The NYC Subway is our Pyramids. A great civilizational achievement.
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An obvious point but one worth making: The same group of people who have spent years crying about fare evasion and pushing for criminalization of fare evasion are now advocating for and gloating about evading the congestion pricing fee. That’s also fare evasion. Pay your fares.
January 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
An obvious point but one worth making: The same group of people who have spent years crying about fare evasion and pushing for criminalization of fare evasion are now advocating for and gloating about evading the congestion pricing fee. That’s also fare evasion. Pay your fares.
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the fear of commuting by mass transit is, to put it generously, "irrational," whereas traffic deaths, despite happening TWENTY FIVE TIMES more often, are normalized. this is fueled by the media — I'd be curious to see how many news stories/articles the subway deaths generated versus traffic deaths
January 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
the fear of commuting by mass transit is, to put it generously, "irrational," whereas traffic deaths, despite happening TWENTY FIVE TIMES more often, are normalized. this is fueled by the media — I'd be curious to see how many news stories/articles the subway deaths generated versus traffic deaths
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Forcing the news to properly center stories about urban transportation. 🫡
This morning I walked from 2nd Avenue to 11th Avenue along 60th street, looking for local news crews. Predictably there were a few that were sticking mics in car windows. I asked, “Hey, want to talk to a pedestrian as well?”
January 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Forcing the news to properly center stories about urban transportation. 🫡
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My kingdom for city and state leaders who believe in NYC and what it represents.
New York has just done a big historic thing — with zero statement/comment by the Governor or the Mayor.
Utter cowards. How fast can you say “new leadership”?
Utter cowards. How fast can you say “new leadership”?
The @mta.info’s Janno Lieber unveils the final Manhattan congestion zone street sign this evening @ Broadway & 61st #congestionpricing
January 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My kingdom for city and state leaders who believe in NYC and what it represents.
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Congestion pricing
January 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Congestion pricing