450 this year
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In the new role & under the Niskanen senior fellow title, I'll still be able to talk to all my journo & staff friends

(To my SBC & HFSC friends, I can still testify in hearings, for example 👀)

So don't be shy! New role, same Alex. Just here to help the whole ecosystem now

I want to thank my teammates @awjustus.bsky.social, Kaj Gumbs, & @rohanaras.bsky.social --and the whole Niskanen team! We've gotten so much further since 2022 than I dared hope

And it's not goodbye: as a Senior Fellow I'll still be helping the team transition. There are great things ahead

(Wu has delivered ~nothing net on housing and has been tearing out bus & bike lanes)

It's just that Randy is in charge now instead of MTS. That's the whole ballgame

@aarmlovi.bsky.social is right. R12 next to the subway is the way to NYC’s next million people.

Easy beginner 2-volume set: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (and the sequel) share.google/O2OxCywyLSMZ...

In the near-term this is a blight mitigation effort. In the medium-term it's proving out the CrossMod model in low-land-cost urban areas. In the long term, it's ensuring mixed incomes in neighborhoods that *could* become more expensive one day

I'm amazed SIRR's setup has survived so long

It's ingenious: SIRR fleet & staffing is sized to serve the peak load point; anyone who crosses it is setting marginal opex & capex

But if you get on & off before Tompkinsville, you're inframarginal: ~free to carry, so faregates would just waste money

Only interesting version is the old 1955 Vickrey fare cordon around the CBD at the peak load point of each line, charging fares only for peak travel inside that zone

SIRR did this, with faregates only at Ferry & Tompkinsville. SRMC to serve a trip that doesn't cross the peak load point is ~$0

Genuinely excellent to have Stephen helping in the replies 👇

Again, NYC has not the war on zoning or costs yet—but we have demonstrated that summoning the labor & capital needed to double the number of units under construction, basically overnight, won't be a problem
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