Great Map of all the Charles Holden, the London Underground's most famous architect (and unlike his successors the one who wasn't pissy about scale/cost). londonist.com/london/trans...
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NYU Marron | transitcosts.com | All Mets Grid | Drive the foreign
Does your subway/metro station have stairs and escalators side by side, like below? Or something else. Especially interested in stations built after 2000. Pictures encouraged.
I talked with Streetsblog fan and MTA Board member Janette Sadik-Khan (maybe you've heard of her) about how she's gonna approach her new position as one of Mayor Mamdani's board appointees nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/30/q...
Q and A: New MTA Board Member Janette Sadik-Khan Yaps With Streetsblog - Streetsblog New York City
Janette Sadik-Khan, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new representative on the MTA board, spoke to Streetsblog on Wednesday.
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These photos were taken in the same location ~45 minutes apart.
City of Fortune is a month old today! Thank you to everyone who has read it, hosted me to talk about it, or just been in touch. If you'd be interested in discussing the political history of neoliberalism in NYC (in class, on a podcast, in an interview -- anything!) please be in touch!
Mason B. Williams@masonbwilliams.bsky.social · last mo.My book is out today! City of Fortune tells the story of how, as it rebuilt after the 1970s, New York turned mid-century forms of inequality into contemporary ones -- and how NYers fought those transformations & preserved visions of a democratic city against great odds. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Getting TOD right in practice is extraordinarily difficult and requires policy alignment on a lot of levels.
Call for Papers: What New Infrastructure is Most Valuable and How Do We Build It? Submission deadline July 31, 2026. For more information, visit the BUILD website. build.ssrc.org/build-resear...
BUILD Research Network Call for Papers: What New Infrastructure is Most Valuable and How Do We Build It?
BUILD Research Network What New Infrastructure is Most Valuable and How Do We Build It? CONFERENCE DATE: May 7th, 2027 Call for Papers Our mandate at the BUILD Research Network is to stimulate researc...
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Attention students! Internships open in policy and planning at the Chicago Department of Transportation: chicago.taleo.net/careersectio... Deadline 8/4!
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Heya — Late night for this but it’s top of the brain rn. If you’re a Detroit/Wayne/MichDOT knower, please shoot me an email.
Please fact check me: Central Subway tunnel: ~7,920 linear feet long, 3 underground stations, 5 cross passages, and 2 emergency shafts. Can anyone confirm that I am right/wrong?
Over the weekend, the @houstonchronicle.com published some Houston-area schookids' letters that were buried in a time capsule from 1995. One caught my attention: My own. Read my childhood predictions for region's future, and lessons I've learned since. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Three lessons from my childhood prediction of a Houston subway system | Opinion
In 1995, I sketched a vision of Houston's future that included subways and monorail. Here are three adult lessons from that childhood ambition for our city, writes Evan Mintz.
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Just when you thought the most mundane scam couldn’t get any stranger.
Eric Goldwyn@egoldwyn.bsky.social · last mo.Wait. Even better:
Haven’t done the grid in a minute, but still going all-Mets:
This specific bus stop is always getting the deluxe treatment
We're hiring a postdoc to push a moonshot that mixes world-modeling, unsupervised RL, and autonomy. More details here, and please help us get the word out! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EMERGE Lab World Models / Unsupervised RL Postdoc
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER WORLD MODELING / UNSUPERVISED RL EMERGE Lab The EMERGE lab at NYU is looking to hire a postdoc for an exciting moonshot project aimed at exploring the limits of learning in ...
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Do good works for the Rebbe’s return!
From 1980–2022, NYC urban area added ~700k housing units near rail stations. Other top performers on this front were DC, LA, SF & Chicago. Despite their rail networks, the Dallas, Miami & Atlanta areas added 5% or less of their housing in rail-adjacent neighborhood. www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...
Cities from New York to Seattle to Los Angeles say they want faster buses. But what does it actually take to make that happen? @egoldwyn.bsky.social & @chittimarco.bsky.social examine the strategies cities around the world use to improve speed and reliability. www.vitalcitynyc.org/bus-speed-tr...
Speeding Up the Bus: Reality Behind the Rhetoric
A tour of transit systems around the world reveals a host of intelligent strategies worth deploying.
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We wrote up a quick overview of the Transit Priority Atlas, highlighting @chittimarco.bsky.social’s great research for @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social. Check it out: www.vitalcitynyc.org/bus-speed-tr...
Speeding Up the Bus: Reality Behind the Rhetoric
A tour of transit systems around the world reveals a host of intelligent strategies worth deploying.
vitalcitynyc.org
Maryland transit planners are considering building the Baltimore Red Line as BRT, rather than light rail. 2 years after Gov Moore endorsed project as rail. It was previously cancelled in 2015. Red Line suffers from: —Paralysis by analysis —Lack of long term commitment —Rising costs
As Red Line costs climb, Maryland reopens bus-vs.-rail debate
Maryland officials are reconsidering whether Baltimore’s long-promised Red Line should be built as light rail or a lower-cost bus rapid transit system.
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A little personal news. Next August, I will join the Urban Planning school of the Université de Montréal as an assistant professor. Petite nouvelle. À partir de août, je vais rejoindre l'école d'urbanisme et d'architecture de paysage de l'UdeM en tant que professeur adjoint.
Meanwhile, Portland Tri-Met is making actual cuts to service after voters trounced a statewide transpo tax. www.transittalent.com/articles/ind...
Bus and MAX reductions coming this summer as TriMet is struggling for new revenue
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