Ben Ross
@benrosstransit.bsky.social
Transit advocate. Social Democrat. Author of Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
Knock-out panel designed into the Bethesda Red Line station by far-sighted* @wmata.com engineers half a century ago and opened last weekend.
Will connect to the @purplelinemd.bsky.social
Will connect to the @purplelinemd.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Knock-out panel designed into the Bethesda Red Line station by far-sighted* @wmata.com engineers half a century ago and opened last weekend.
Will connect to the @purplelinemd.bsky.social
Will connect to the @purplelinemd.bsky.social
Vision Zero accomplishments for the year, in a county of 1 million.
7 new signals (some only blinking lights)
5.9 miles of new sidewalk
4 bikeways under construction
89 traffic lights retimed
189 "resident engagement events"
7 new signals (some only blinking lights)
5.9 miles of new sidewalk
4 bikeways under construction
89 traffic lights retimed
189 "resident engagement events"
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Vision Zero accomplishments for the year, in a county of 1 million.
7 new signals (some only blinking lights)
5.9 miles of new sidewalk
4 bikeways under construction
89 traffic lights retimed
189 "resident engagement events"
7 new signals (some only blinking lights)
5.9 miles of new sidewalk
4 bikeways under construction
89 traffic lights retimed
189 "resident engagement events"
Now I have a picture. Rail being laid in the Bethesda Purple Line station.
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Now I have a picture. Rail being laid in the Bethesda Purple Line station.
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
Why can't Dems get TV coverage? See this great (for other findings) paper.
TV news covers taxes on business 16 times less often than political ads discuss it. Nearly as bad for medicare, jobs & social security.
Cable news covers stock market 12 X more than political ads, Broadcast news 8 X more.
TV news covers taxes on business 16 times less often than political ads discuss it. Nearly as bad for medicare, jobs & social security.
Cable news covers stock market 12 X more than political ads, Broadcast news 8 X more.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Why can't Dems get TV coverage? See this great (for other findings) paper.
TV news covers taxes on business 16 times less often than political ads discuss it. Nearly as bad for medicare, jobs & social security.
Cable news covers stock market 12 X more than political ads, Broadcast news 8 X more.
TV news covers taxes on business 16 times less often than political ads discuss it. Nearly as bad for medicare, jobs & social security.
Cable news covers stock market 12 X more than political ads, Broadcast news 8 X more.
Looks like the issue is a drainageway (I can't tell whether stream or swale) behind the crash barrier. Surely not its natural course, but moved there when the highway was built.
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Looks like the issue is a drainageway (I can't tell whether stream or swale) behind the crash barrier. Surely not its natural course, but moved there when the highway was built.
Local journalism is not dead! From the list of "most read" articles on the Bangor Daily News website:
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Local journalism is not dead! From the list of "most read" articles on the Bangor Daily News website:
The question is what is your religion?, with the answer classified as Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, other or none. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The question is what is your religion?, with the answer classified as Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, other or none. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Even Le Corbusier was going to leave Notre Dame alone www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/work-arch...
October 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Even Le Corbusier was going to leave Notre Dame alone www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/work-arch...
The Platner thing has brought out the worst habits of both ends of the Democratic Party.
On the militantly "moderate" right, racializing all of politics to proscribe any sort of economic populism. We're back to "Breaking up the big banks won't end racism." 1/2
On the militantly "moderate" right, racializing all of politics to proscribe any sort of economic populism. We're back to "Breaking up the big banks won't end racism." 1/2
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Platner thing has brought out the worst habits of both ends of the Democratic Party.
On the militantly "moderate" right, racializing all of politics to proscribe any sort of economic populism. We're back to "Breaking up the big banks won't end racism." 1/2
On the militantly "moderate" right, racializing all of politics to proscribe any sort of economic populism. We're back to "Breaking up the big banks won't end racism." 1/2
They have blocked off the whole southeast corner of Lafayette Park so people can't see the destruction they have wrought.
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
They have blocked off the whole southeast corner of Lafayette Park so people can't see the destruction they have wrought.
This is what counts as a Class B office building in Manhattan. My father worked in this building in the 1960s and the lobby is every bit as impressive as that picture suggests. Plus it's steps from Grand Central Terminal, connected underground IIRC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is what counts as a Class B office building in Manhattan. My father worked in this building in the 1960s and the lobby is every bit as impressive as that picture suggests. Plus it's steps from Grand Central Terminal, connected underground IIRC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
Fairfax County VA to spend a billion dollars to create a 7-mile long "BRT" bus line in the middle of a 10-lane traffic sewer, predicted to carry 15,000-18,000 riders a day. www.ffxnow.com/2025/10/07/c...
October 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fairfax County VA to spend a billion dollars to create a 7-mile long "BRT" bus line in the middle of a 10-lane traffic sewer, predicted to carry 15,000-18,000 riders a day. www.ffxnow.com/2025/10/07/c...
"The signal is simple"?!?!
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"The signal is simple"?!?!
But a guy who should know said (in 1962) that Palo Alto started it.
October 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
But a guy who should know said (in 1962) that Palo Alto started it.
To everyone On Here who tells Democrats to give up on appealing to the working class.
The great bulk of Trump's loss of support since he took office has been among voters with household incomes under $100,000.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/do-non-vot...
The great bulk of Trump's loss of support since he took office has been among voters with household incomes under $100,000.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/do-non-vot...
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
To everyone On Here who tells Democrats to give up on appealing to the working class.
The great bulk of Trump's loss of support since he took office has been among voters with household incomes under $100,000.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/do-non-vot...
The great bulk of Trump's loss of support since he took office has been among voters with household incomes under $100,000.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/do-non-vot...
NYT pollsters find voters do look at tradeoffs of free bus fares.
53% prefer paid fares if it helps maintain service.
21% would raise taxes for free fares & better service
9% want free fares & less service
8% want free fares & cuts in other city services
x.com/nataliemj10/...
53% prefer paid fares if it helps maintain service.
21% would raise taxes for free fares & better service
9% want free fares & less service
8% want free fares & cuts in other city services
x.com/nataliemj10/...
September 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
NYT pollsters find voters do look at tradeoffs of free bus fares.
53% prefer paid fares if it helps maintain service.
21% would raise taxes for free fares & better service
9% want free fares & less service
8% want free fares & cuts in other city services
x.com/nataliemj10/...
53% prefer paid fares if it helps maintain service.
21% would raise taxes for free fares & better service
9% want free fares & less service
8% want free fares & cuts in other city services
x.com/nataliemj10/...
This one from Jan 7, 1925, competes with it.
September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This one from Jan 7, 1925, competes with it.
This one from Jan 7, 1925, competes. www.nytimes.com/1925/01/07/a...
September 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This one from Jan 7, 1925, competes. www.nytimes.com/1925/01/07/a...
And this is what we've got in Montgomery County. Wouldn't be hard to fix...
September 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
And this is what we've got in Montgomery County. Wouldn't be hard to fix...
Amtrak reservation system & website are down.
September 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Amtrak reservation system & website are down.
NYT covers FBI purges as political horserace. Gets to effects on law enforcement in paragraph 6. Gift link, with my corrected headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NYT covers FBI purges as political horserace. Gets to effects on law enforcement in paragraph 6. Gift link, with my corrected headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
1979 already too late. I keep reposting this, from 1960s.
September 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
1979 already too late. I keep reposting this, from 1960s.
If the space has been re-allocated for bicycle traffic, why does it have a Do Not Enter sign? I thought bicycles are required to obey traffic signs. But apparently the county thinks traffic signs do not apply to bicycles. (My photo from Wilson Lane & Exeter St in Bethesda.)
September 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If the space has been re-allocated for bicycle traffic, why does it have a Do Not Enter sign? I thought bicycles are required to obey traffic signs. But apparently the county thinks traffic signs do not apply to bicycles. (My photo from Wilson Lane & Exeter St in Bethesda.)
This seems like a dig.
August 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This seems like a dig.