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Showing posts with label subway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subway. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Transit access drives transit voting

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I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patte...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

When to go negative

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Recently I wrote about how, in the nineties and early 2000s, discussions about transit advocacy were short on hope and full of negativity....
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

How we got hope back

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When I first got into transit advocacy it was a lonely place. The dominant narrative here in New York was that the city was a money pit, ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

What if the MTA is interested in bringing back the trains?

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I’ve always opposed the proposal to convert the Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad into a bike trail, because I think the lan...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Windows on the Van Wyck

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A few weeks ago I went for a walk in Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills. I got off the train at Jamaica-Van Wyck, the first time I’d ever used...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

The safety and comfort of ridesharing

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"It’s so 2015," Vogue writer Karley Sciortino's friend said to her in Los Angeles last year. "This girl I know just fucke...
Friday, February 19, 2016

A Century of Subway Scolding

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Jessica Hester had a great post detailing how we've been trying to alternately shame and cajole people into being respectful and not ta...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

Better subway station names

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Back in October, City Council Transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez argued that some of our identically-named subway stations really are con...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Next stop: 34th Street-Hudson River Greenway

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I rode the 7 train to the new 34th Street stop for the first time today. Too late? Well, I figured you all had the opening covered. I wan...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Can the trains really handle weekend passenger loads?

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The Daily News had a good piece on subway overcrowding yesterday, featuring some odd comments by MTA officials. Much as I appreciate the ...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

The most important post of 2003

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Josh Barro is not alone in being stuck in the mindset that transit always needs more riders. It seems to be a hard thing to grasp, but som...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

The O Train to Avenue H

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One subway expansion proposal that always gets mentioned by people, but has never gotten any official funding or planning, is the "Trib...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

21st Street and Astoria Boulevard

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In a recent post I argued that the Astoria elites no longer have the same opposition to extending the N train that they did just seven year...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Along the Chemical Coast to Staten Island

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People seem to be captivated by the unused stretch of the Staten Island Railroad along the North Shore of the island. It makes sense to do ...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

It's time to extend the N train to LaGuardia

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Twenty years ago, Astoria leaders blocked a plan to extend the elevated train line that serves their neighborhood. The proposal would have ...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Estimating crowded subways

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It turns out that there's another hitch in estimating how crowded the subways are: in my last post I used the NYMTC's estimates of ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Infilling the subways

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Commenter threestationsquare pointed out that I made an error in the chart I posted about overcrowded subways. He also noted that it's...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Our overloaded subways

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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, there are times when building new transit is not warranted. In particular, it is a waste of resources to...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

If you're hub bound, there's room for you

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Recently I posted that there seemed to be no room left in the subway tunnels and bridges leading into Manhattan. Threestationsquare, who h...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Buses and trains in Woodhaven

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In this blog, Capt. Subway has written that we should run the R subway on the unused Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad, and...
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