Rough roads, buses built to satisfy a bid spec at minimum cost, no time to painstakingly go through and lube seals/tighten bolts.

Definitely worse on some routes than others (8/11, looking at you).

I have no doubt that the driver was very grateful to you. Well played.

Walk past any line of cars waiting for a light in the city, and 1/3 to 1/2 of the drivers are on the phone. It’s awful and terrible.

That tract is really two rather dissimilar areas, one east of Third Ave that is mostly public and lower-cost housing, and one west of Third that is more mixed in incomes. Would be interesting to see how they differ.

Three-quarters of Floridians live further south than Cairo, Egypt.

Portland, Oregon is substantially farther north than Portland, Maine.

Skip BAR, not Graham St. Its ridership potential is more speculative, based on bus transfers, and the network can work around a failure to build it. And it’s more expensive. Graham St is in a place where we could build a whole lot of new housing in walking distance.

Is she prepared to confront and overcome institutional resistance, within the career bureaucracy, to the pro-housing and pro-transit policies she campaigned on?

We need to do whatever it takes to get the bottom 20% of office buildings torn down and replaced by housing.

Did he sound as much like Trump in person as he does from reading your posts? 🤢

To be committed to NIMBY positions in 2025 (other than as grift or pander), you can't have basic competence in either arithmetic or spatial reasoning. These are the results.

He still deserves to be tossed in the woodchipper for plenty of well-documented non-Epstein reasons. He did some good things as president but he was personally a skeeze.