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NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
LIRR and Metro-North ridership surged within New York City limits after the MTA expanded $5 peak/$7 off-peak intracity fares in 2022 — driving the bulk of ridership growth on the two commuter railroads.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/…
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With the California High-Speed Rail, San Jose, with a median home price of $1,350,000, will be a 43-minute train ride from Merced ($392,000). Overnight, living in Merced and working in Silicon Valley will be a massive boon to Central Valley cities.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Low density zoning is why you can't afford housing in every major U.S. city.
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The parking lot of this appliance store in Long Island City, Queens was purchased for $53 million, or $444,000 per parking space. It will become a 26 story building with 560 housing units, of which 25% will be affordable. The opportunity cost of surface parking is insane.
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The ability to just *walk out the door* and skip the car feels so basic. But when you’re in the suburbs and going anywhere means driving, you appreciate the fundamental privilege of the city, which is proximity to destinations
Last week, friends with young kids came to visit us from the suburbs in California.
As we ran around Manhattan together, they looked at us and asked, “How do you do this all the time? How do you raise young kids in New York City? Do you have to get in the car every time you go somewhere? This seems crazy.”
I smiled and told them that, for us, raising kids in the city is actually easier than raising them in the suburbs.
We never think about getting in the car.
The grocery store is two blocks away. The kids’ doctor is two blocks away. There’s a Barnes & Noble six minutes away on foot.
We walk to the Met, the Natural History Museum, and Central Park.
We walk to get coffee. There are playgrounds and playdates everywhere. Our building is full of kids their age, and so is our block.
Once you get past the idea that raising kids in the city must be complicated, the day-to-day reality is pretty simple.
We just walk out the door.
And honestly, raising kids in the city is actually a whole lot easier than raising them in the suburbs.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Road pricing + the Lincoln Tunnel Express Bus Lane helped reintroduce for-profit mass transit back into NYC as a viable business
It's fun to have nimble startups like Boxcar analyzing & advocating bus infrastructure improvements alongside traditional large public agencies 👇
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
If opponents of road diets were honest:
"Safe streets require me to drive slower, so I'm against safe streets."
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
In the time it takes a train to get from New York to Washington, you can get from Paris to Provence - twice as far.
I mapped every rail station you can reach from central Paris and central New York in 1, 2, and 3 hours.
Two hours from Paris gets you to Lyon, Strasbourg, or Nantes. Two hours from Midtown gets you to Wilmington.
Paris to London, under the Channel, is a slightly longer trip than New York to Washington. The train is 40 minutes faster. Washington only makes the 3-hour cutoff on one train a day.
It isn't about distance. France has built dedicated high-speed lines out of Paris since 1981, and TGVs run them at 186 mph. The Northeast Corridor shares track with commuter trains and runs through century-old tunnels. Acela only hits top speed on short stretches.
The Northeast has the cities and the riders for this. Every hop on the corridor, even Boston to New York, is shorter than Paris to Lyon. What it doesn't have is track built for speed.
ALT Two maps at the same scale showing how far scheduled trains reach from central Paris and central New York in 1, 2, and 3 hours. Paris reaches 133, 251, and 399 miles; New York reaches 55, 120, and 205 miles. Labeled cities include Lyon in 1h 54m, London in 2h 19m, Philadelphia in 1h 08m, and Washington in 2h 59m.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Working on parking options for a Very Complex project.
One parking option that I kind of love is a shared parking facility per block. This means people who WANT a parking spot can lease it in the garage. People who don't want to can opt out and spend their money elsewhere.
A garage on the block is convenient ... you can get to it by going out your back door and crossing the courtyard to the garage.
(this garage is for 200 spots -- doesn't need to be this big)
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Spending decades studying is a feature, not a bug, to leaders who want to look like they're "doing something" without actually changing anything.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Autonomous vehicles are like congestion pricing:
Before being rolled out, people are opposed to the idea in theory.
But after experiencing how great it is in practice, they become really supportive.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
We destroyed our transit systems and intercity rail network and made it mandatory to buy a $50,000 machine just to be employable
BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Talarico is single-stair-pilled!?
LET’S GOOOOOOOO!
“Our outdated building codes don’t allow for single-stair housing which is smaller apartment complexes, condos, it’s a great entry point for home ownership.
I worked with Republicans across the aisle. We repealed that outdated regulation.” @jamestalarico
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
“Our outdated building codes don’t allow for single-stair housing which is smaller apartment complexes, condos, it’s a great entry point for home ownership.
I worked with Republicans across the aisle. We repealed that outdated regulation.” @jamestalarico
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
Need regional rail along I-95 and plan for a circumferential light rail line. With those toll prices, a light rail line over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge should be able to be financed for the next express lane segment. google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…
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💸 Beltway rush hour got expensive. WTOP Traffic saw tolls top $60 from the American Legion Bridge to Van Dorn Street, while the trip to near Fredericksburg hit $104 around 6 p.m! No big incidents just congestion according to the traffic team.
@WTOP
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Lots of people drive cars in the US but that doesn't mean they want to.
Car fanatics want us to believe that car-dominance is because customers love cars.
But choices reveal desires only when there are real options.
usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/…
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BREAKING: Gasoline-only cars fall below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time in history.
NOVA Transportation Solutions retweeted
I believe that Long Island might be the only place in the world in which 200 trains a day could serve a self storage place and parking lot.
