119 units, 52 parking spots one block from Court Square newyorkyimby.com/2022/08/permit… 22 spots for 28 units in Park Slope newyorkyimby.com/2022/08/permit…

How did the Northern Branch project cost increase from $1.18 billion to $2 billion? @alon_levy @MarketUrbanism @ericgoldwyn njtplans.com/downloads/capi… content.njtransit.com/public/board/a… @alon_levy @MarketUrbanism @ericgoldwyn Fleet cost up from $4.63 billion to $5.38 billion. @2235astoria

I won't do this now, but I need to do a thread bringing attention to accounts that I follow with relatively few followers. If I don't do this, please remind me. Okay. I have a list of 30 accounts I follow with fewer than 1,000 followers to bring attention to. At some point, I might also do one for 1,000 to 2,000.

"On the issue of public transit, white New Yorkers most frequently picked better maintained subways and buses, while Black New Yorkers favored “feeling safer while riding public transit.”" gothamist.com/news/largest-k… "Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were also found to prioritize investment in roads over mass transit and were also least interested in closing streets to pedestrians, according to the report."
.@capntransit @MarketUrbanism @2AvSagas

"At the local level, legislation can support local transport plans that include commitments... to encourage behaviour change... Such institution-led mechanisms could include bike-to-work campaigns, free transport passes, parking charges, or eliminating car benefits." report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPC… @giulio_mattioli @mateosfo

This is wild! Work to extend the tracks at Flatbush Avenue for layup tracks was initially in the 2000-2004 program, for $53 million! @vanshnook @A320Lga drive.google.com/file/d/1LeLtMU…

https://twitter.com/RachaelFauss/status/1501717224268210183

Huh, CBTC was planned on the LIRR.

"Subway‐car inspections were cut back and millions of dollars were diverted from system maintenance last year to pay for a $6.8 million beautification program at 84 subway stations, according to a report issued yesterday by group of official citizen‐advisers to the MTA" /1 "According to the report, the interval between subway‐car inspections was increased from 7,500 miles to 10,000 miles, and 171 full‐time Transit Authority employees, including skilled mechanics, were lost to the redecoration program, called Operation Facelift."/2

“With funding levels “so far below any objective estimate of maintenance costs…eventually no one felt the need to make such estimates,” according to one observer. The result was a gradual aging and deterioration of the transit system that led to its near collapse." /1 This is re: the transit crisis in the 70s/80s in NYC. wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/… @sandypsj @MarketUrbanism @alon_levy @ChittiMarco @RM_Transit @2235astoria @GeorgeFTrain

It is awful that taking the F all the way through Manhattan and Queens is the fastest way to get to/from Downtown Brooklyn/Park Slope from where I am in Kew Gardens. 1 hour 13 minutes by train vs. 32 minutes by car. /1 Turning the Jackie Robinson into an express busway and having it connect with the subway at Utica Avenue would do a lot to better connect Central/Eastern Queens with Downtown Brooklyn. /2

"Perhaps in response to the bitter 1980 strike, the MTA also seems somewhat uninterested in labor productivity issues." "Interviews with TA officials... suggest a tendency to mistake capital investment for service improvement and, worse still, a failure to recognize the need to develop an affirmative labor productivity program to accompany the capital plan"