Brian NEO
@thinkerbrian.bsky.social
Advocating for Cleveland and public transit. Build a light-rail connection from Shaker Square to University Circle to the Cleveland Clinic. Just two miles of new track!
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I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
The Last Thing US Transit Agencies Should Do Now
Rising costs and widening deficits as pandemic aid runs out are challenging bus and train operators in many cities. But cutting service needs to be a last resort.
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
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2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
The Last Thing US Transit Agencies Should Do Now
Rising costs and widening deficits as pandemic aid runs out are challenging bus and train operators in many cities. But cutting service needs to be a last resort.
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
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![RENEW WAR ON SANTA CLAUS
Asbury Park, N.J. July 8 - War on Santa Claus has been renewed by the School of Methods of the New Jersey Sunday School Teachers' Association in session here. The battle against the children's idol of Christmastide was begun last summer on the ground that the time-honored institution of Kris Kringle takes the minds of the young scholars from the religion [sic] significance of the day.
Last year the teachers sought to have substituted a model Christmas festival, in which the stereopticon played a prominent part and the jolly old saint was banished. It failed Now the teachers have a new scheme of a "living Christmas tree." Teachers and scholars of Sunday schools are to stand in serried ranks upon a circular platform built in tiers, each holding a Christmas tree branch, laden with candles and gifts. At a given signal all are to step down and carry their branches through the audience, distributing the gifts.
--Miners Journal, 9 July 1904](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uuwcnr32gcm7iuzfysuwjvop/bafkreiefbisxrntbq3le6ipbc4mqw3lr2khckpezigakqflr2nhu5ge5di@jpeg)
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Loved seeing another Oonee Pod in the wild! We need more secure bike parking all around our cities. In addition to better bike lanes, minimizing bike theft is another key to getting more people out cycling. Note @thewaroncars.bsky.social Advertisement!
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October 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Loved seeing another Oonee Pod in the wild! We need more secure bike parking all around our cities. In addition to better bike lanes, minimizing bike theft is another key to getting more people out cycling. Note @thewaroncars.bsky.social Advertisement!
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Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?
The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
S.F. speed cameras are generating mountains of tickets and fines. Here are the totals so far
August was the first month that San Francisco’s automated speed cameras generated citations with a fine. One camera accounted for a quarter of all the tickets, according to data.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?
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12. Speaking of abnormally easy terrain for HSR: Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Cleveland, both via Toledo.
July 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
12. Speaking of abnormally easy terrain for HSR: Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Cleveland, both via Toledo.
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TTC: turnstyle jumpers beware. Provincial Offence Officers on the scene. P.O.O. On every bus n train. You’ve been warned?
Us: we don’t want POO on public transit.
TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning!
Us: So it’s warning… number 2?
TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd
Us: we don’t want POO on public transit.
TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning!
Us: So it’s warning… number 2?
TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
TTC: turnstyle jumpers beware. Provincial Offence Officers on the scene. P.O.O. On every bus n train. You’ve been warned?
Us: we don’t want POO on public transit.
TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning!
Us: So it’s warning… number 2?
TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd
Us: we don’t want POO on public transit.
TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning!
Us: So it’s warning… number 2?
TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd
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Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.
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look I can’t predict how this is going to go, but even as rhetoric it’s leagues above anything that leaders in the states have even sniffed at. They’ve been content to keep trying Rube Goldberg-esque tax credits in hopes of barely nudging the margins.
We've solved a housing crisis before. Here’s how we’ll do it again.
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
look I can’t predict how this is going to go, but even as rhetoric it’s leagues above anything that leaders in the states have even sniffed at. They’ve been content to keep trying Rube Goldberg-esque tax credits in hopes of barely nudging the margins.
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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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Can’t make it in person but still want to participate? Take the Access Ohio 2025 survey. Make special note of question number 8, when they ask about passenger rail and rank your choices!
publicinput.com/v54281
publicinput.com/v54281
Access Ohio 2050 - PublicInput
Access Ohio 2050 is the Ohio s long-range multi-modal transportation plan developed by the Ohio Department of Transportation that will guide the state s transportation policies and investments for the...
publicinput.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Can’t make it in person but still want to participate? Take the Access Ohio 2025 survey. Make special note of question number 8, when they ask about passenger rail and rank your choices!
publicinput.com/v54281
publicinput.com/v54281
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Mark your calendars 🗓️ to attend one of the 12 in person events across the state for the Access Ohio 2050 planning sessions! Be sure to tell ODOT how we want more passenger rail in our state 🚊
April 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Mark your calendars 🗓️ to attend one of the 12 in person events across the state for the Access Ohio 2050 planning sessions! Be sure to tell ODOT how we want more passenger rail in our state 🚊
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It is fascinating to me how every conversation about cycling invites dozens of comments like this. It’s true that some cyclists are rude! It’s also true that this is not relevant to whether traffic laws should be changed
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There is a certain type of cyclist who acts like a fucking asshole whenever sharing a space with pedestrians and whenever you mention it a million of them go "well cars are worse" okay thank you for screaming at my child for daring to walk on a mixed use path I guess.
April 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It is fascinating to me how every conversation about cycling invites dozens of comments like this. It’s true that some cyclists are rude! It’s also true that this is not relevant to whether traffic laws should be changed
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rebranding the 15 min city.
April 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
rebranding the 15 min city.
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They should have just called The Pitt “NewER”.
March 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
They should have just called The Pitt “NewER”.
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Regular reminder that Republicans are substantially less likely to understand how marginal tax rates work
November 17, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Regular reminder that Republicans are substantially less likely to understand how marginal tax rates work
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It's funny how there's an inverse correlation with nominally supporting the idea of "degrowth" and the outcomes of the associated policies.
To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.
To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.
There’s a lot of great stuff coming out about “abundance” and meanwhile the titans of the tech industry have embraced bizarro world degrowtherism, blocking housing in their backyards, destroying basic science research, and fearmongering about vaccines. Sad!
March 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It's funny how there's an inverse correlation with nominally supporting the idea of "degrowth" and the outcomes of the associated policies.
To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.
To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.
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New transit projects benefit drivers infinitely more than roadway expansions.
March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New transit projects benefit drivers infinitely more than roadway expansions.
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Imagine a modern fleet of trains in Cleveland.
March 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Imagine a modern fleet of trains in Cleveland.
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Methodicle has partnered with @allaboardohio.org on this call-to-action rendering recently shown at the Ohio Passenger Rail day of advocacy on March 5th in Columbus. In it we envision a future where Cleveland is served by the new RTA trains and expanded Amtrak service. Visit methodicle.com for more!
March 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Methodicle has partnered with @allaboardohio.org on this call-to-action rendering recently shown at the Ohio Passenger Rail day of advocacy on March 5th in Columbus. In it we envision a future where Cleveland is served by the new RTA trains and expanded Amtrak service. Visit methodicle.com for more!
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There's been a lot of mockery of the notion that people are being canceled for their belief ("which conservative belief were you canceled for, tax cuts?"). But in these cases, this isn't even what happened - the people in question chose to cancel themselves (among liberals) for whatever reason. /end
March 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
There's been a lot of mockery of the notion that people are being canceled for their belief ("which conservative belief were you canceled for, tax cuts?"). But in these cases, this isn't even what happened - the people in question chose to cancel themselves (among liberals) for whatever reason. /end