⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.

A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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It's the final day of MetroCard sales—so as we say farewell to an icon, let's take a look at how it all started.

Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

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NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.

Mamdani's spent the months after the primary reaching out to everyone who opposed him to try and find some common ground in governing the city. He's actually practicing politics the right way.

Sigh. Transit advocates have been asking for *years* for more resources to make buses better: Countdown clocks, car cameras, more service, accessibility training, sheltered bus stops, TPS, and so on. Free fares was never it and we're no closer to getting what we've BEEN asking for w/ this attitude.

Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

In the same way that you can't have a social democracy that only taxes billionaires and no one else, you can't have a social democracy that requires 20 public meetings before building the most basic public infrastructure.

The lesson from New York is that no amount of density and transit access will prevent a small but vocal segment of the population from being complete babies about congestion pricing.

So just do it anyway! Your city will be better for it.

congestion pricing coming back online and city of yes moving forward are like two of the largest wins NYC has taken in a while even if they have been whittled down significantly from their original goals, tough moment to be optimistic but still some genuine progress