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Wait what the heck is this?!
Gonna be the most expensive tail track on earth
The MTA is proposing a new 125 Street Subway, which would extend west from the future 125 St/Lexington Av Q station. The project would connect existing subway lines—including the Second Avenue Subway—and bus routes along the corridor.
Learn more about this project at a public scoping meeting; we're hosting two virtual sessions on October 22, and one in-person session on October 27. Register for a session and get all the details: mta.info/project/125-street-…
ALT Map of proposed 125 Street Subway. The map includes streets, landmarks, and color-coded subway lines.
As always follow Khyber and the great work of ETA:
etany.org/reports/digging-ou…
Very unnecessary. Tail tracks can probably be shorter, constraining ops but saving billions (they did no such analysis), or if they want a ton of storage, use the Freedom Tunnel right next to it, which can store the whole Q fleet on its own.
Being a transit advocate in America is hard because this is genuinely good news, but it costs $600 million a mile for a train that runs on the street. France is building fully automated, grade-separated metro for half that.
The capital of American car culture is now building more transit than any other city in America.
Los Angeles just broke ground on a nearly $4 BILLION light-rail line through the San Fernando Valley:
• 6.7 miles
• 11 new stations
• Connections to Amtrak, Metrolink and the G Line
• Access to roughly 150,000 jobs across the region
Rail service is returning to Van Nuys Boulevard for the first time in more than 70 years.
Los Angeles isn’t abandoning the car overnight but it is building a future where driving is no longer the only option.
This should be funded immediately and the Phase 2 boring machine should just continue onwards!
The MTA is proposing a new 125 Street Subway, which would extend west from the future 125 St/Lexington Av Q station. The project would connect existing subway lines—including the Second Avenue Subway—and bus routes along the corridor.
Learn more about this project at a public scoping meeting; we're hosting two virtual sessions on October 22, and one in-person session on October 27. Register for a session and get all the details: mta.info/project/125-street-…
ALT Map of proposed 125 Street Subway. The map includes streets, landmarks, and color-coded subway lines.
I’m just curious as to how people think it’s a good idea to privatize public services (rural broadband) when the owner of said product can just turn it off?
Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
“Mother knows best” is a crazy thing to say about a woman who allowed her husband to sexually abuse Amy and who she stayed with until he died, which is why she lost custody of her kids. You should delete this.
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As I said before, I welcome autonomous vehicles, but if they're privately owned, single-occupant vehicles rather than shared ones, they won't "solve" traffic in any way, shape, or form.
Rhode Island leaders are going ahead with plans to relocate and build a new $77 million transit hub for the state.
It’s a bad idea 🧵
If you’re the executive of Nassau County, and have barely been on the LIRR before… I mean… how?
Bruce Blakeman rides the subway as he rails against Hochul over NYC transit violence trib.al/ymJYjWa
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The picture in question is not of the subway, but of an LIRR train.
Picture of example seats - queenseagle.com/all/a-new-flee…
We built a country that looks like this over the last 70 years to force people to buy a product that’s bankrupting them.
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.
The idea that this is a minority opinion by US policymakers and leaders is crazy to me.
Public park access in the nations capital being removed in favor of private golf space is really vile.
