Downtown Jersey City + Hoboken, in another life.

Sorry Buddy was right@dawe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Repost with a map of your favourite hypothetical congestion pricing cordon

It's time to double congestion pricing

This past weekend resulted in an inordinate number of train cancelations.NJ Transit management and unions have different view on why- was it no-show workers or crews stretched too thin to provide service for two events? www.nj.com/news/2026/10...

NJ Transit canceled 47 trains last weekend due to crew shortages. What’s going on?

NJ Transit riders complained that 47 trains were canceled last weekend. Was the reason due to crews being stretched too thin to provide service to two events or workers calling out?

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The @PANYNJ opened the South Walk, expanding access for pedestrians and cyclists who use the George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest bridge. The North Walk opening in 2023 already led to more use - ~2,700 people walked/cycled per weekday in 2025, up from 1,700 in 2018.

As someone who used to run over this bridge a lot, happy to see this.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · last wk.

Pedestrians now have their own walkway over the Hudson (except for during the overnight periods). buff.ly/gr8Ml6P

Pedestrians now have their own walkway over the Hudson (except for during the overnight periods). buff.ly/gr8Ml6P

Cyclists and Pedestrians Finally Get Their Own Paths on the George Washington Bridge - Streetsblog New York City

The George Washington Bridge finally has 24/7 biking and walking access — but the Port Authority still plans to close one of its two paths each night.

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Syracuse is tearing down the I-81 viaduct that split its city for decades and replacing it with a street grid that reconnects the neighborhoods the highway cut apart. If Syracuse can rethink its highways, so can NYC.

Newark Penn Station is probably the best train station in the U.S. and yet it has a large surface parking lot right next to it.

More chaos in New Jersey. When will Democrats in Trenton take notice? 6 teens injured by someone driving a large pickup truck crashed into a fence and the sidewalk, trapping one of the teens under the truck. The trauma these kids must be going through www.nj.com/news/2026/10...

SUV strikes crowd of teens near N.J. high school, trapping 1 under vehicle, police say

Several people were struck by a car shortly after high school dismissal.

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NYC is running away from what is obviously needed - rethinking freight. This highway needs to be replaced with at-grade light rail, low speed car lanes, and new trucking alternatives. Water and rail should be used for the big stuff, and then move materials onto the little guys for last mile.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 3w ago

Mayor Mamdani and his transportation commissioner, Mike Flynn, have suggested that it was a mistake for the city to build the BQE 70 years ago. Despite this, they are planning to restore the BQE, and build a temporary highway above the Brooklyn Bridge. youtube.com/shorts/m3Al8...

PATH proving increased weekend service reaps upping ridership. Now only if they would lengthen the window of increased service on weekends for after 9pm.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3w ago

August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵

Transit Friendly Planning News - mailchi.mp/njtod/news-o... - Sherrill unveils state land housing plan • Hudson Tunnel boring begins • Affordable TOD in Ann Arbor • Pinehurst Station opens in Seattle • TransLink real estate - #njtod #njtransit #TOD

NJ Transit bought a private company's former bus garage and put off construction plans for a new terminal after a the Trump administration shifted policy, grants away from electric vehicles. www.nj.com/news/2026/09...

NJ Transit is forced to rethink its plans as Trump pivots away from electric buses

NJ Transit plans to purchase a former Coach USA garage.

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Plans to rebuild the Hackensack Bus Terminal and a massive new residential/mixed-use housing development all came to a screeching halt with a four sentence email I uncovered. Key missing documents were found unsigned. A strong triple byline (!)

It’s pretty defeating there’s no sense of any roadmap in the works for NJ Transit similar to this, even tho one could argue we have the density to have our own success story with upping frequencies.

Ben S@bensh3.bsky.social · last mo.

In addition, the Reimagining Regional Rail master plan has been released! We finally might get the S-Bahn Philadelphia deserves. Read now: wwww.septa.org/initiatives/...

Big meeting Wednesday evening on bus rapid transit on JFK Blvd!! Come out and support!

Larry Higgs@commutinglarry.bsky.social · last mo.

After false starts ,studies and past proposals NJ may finally get a first bus rapid transit system. www.nj.com/traffic/2026...

NJ Transit CEO announced $250 M Hudson Bergen Light rail capital projects to be announced in November, first project- replace elevators that get stuck! www.nj.com/traffic/2026...

Here’s when the $250M Hudson-Bergen Light Rail upgrade work will begin

After hearing complaints about Hudson-Bergen Light rail riders getting stuck in elevators, NJ Transit's CEO said a $250 million capital improvement program will be announced in November.

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There is a lot of attention paid to teens on e-bikes, e-motos and scooters. But very little attention paid for teens either dying in crashes or causing deadly crashes & it happens all the time in New Jersey www.aol.com/articles/tee...

Teen Ejected, Killed In Cranford Garden State Parkway Crash, Police Say - AOL

A juvenile was ejected and killed in a chain-reaction crash involving multiple vehicles on the Garden State Parkway over the weekend, authorities said. Nicholas J. McLean, 19, of Hillside, was heading...

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Bus-priority 🚌🚍@bus-priority.bsky.social · last mo.

The GSP is so dangerous. What are democrats doing about this? “Regardless of what investigators ultimately determine in these particular crashes, aggressive driving, excessive speed and dangerous lane changes can put everyone sharing the highway at risk.” www.rlsmedia.com/article/upda...

Same intersection gothamist.com/news/truck-j...

Truck jumps curb in NYC Chinatown, killing a man and injuring 2 women

The truck was going north on Bowery and struck a parked car at Hester Street, where a 56-year-old driver was taken into custody, police said.

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Sai-Kit Hui 許世傑@saikithui.bsky.social · last yr.

Dash cam from car stopped on Bowery caught the crash and the footage was posted on Chinese social media xhslink.com/m/3Q6VOh8xm07

NJ Transit buses get free Wi-Fi and that tech is helped improve the accuracy of bus arrival time on it's smartphone app to 85% accuracy www.nj.com/news/2026/09...

Buses keep disappearing from NJ Transit’s app. They finally have a fix.

NJ Transit bus riders will get free Wi-Fi on buses and an upgraded smartphone app that provides more accurate bus information with 86% accuracy.

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Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey for BRT on Kennedy Blvd. survey123.arcgis.com/share/3a6dd6...

JFK BRT Study Rider Survey 0824

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NJ Transit beats other regional agencies with a chatbot on its revised website to answer rider questions, but a trip planning test shows some directions were via Manhattan to go the some NJ locations www.nj.com/news/2026/09...

NJ Transit’s new website comes with an AI chatbot. Fixes to the app are coming soon.

NJ Transit launched a new webpage and its first AI chatbot to help riders and promised changes to its criticized app to address rider complaints on Sept. 9

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🚀 The new njtransit.com website is now live! As part of the Rapid Action Plan to improve the digital experience, this upgrade includes a new chatbot feature that I invite you to try out. I’ve already shared plenty of feedback for future updates, now I want yours! Drop your comments below 👇

NJ TRANSIT

New Jersey Public Transportation Corporation - The Way To Go

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This old pamphlet from 1947 extolling the virtues of and planning decisions behind what would become the Garden State Parkway is going to turn me into the joker. archive.org/details/newj...

Another horrible wreck on 78 in the city of Newark. Driver and passenger were killed when a truck crashed into their car, which was stopped in the left lane of the local lanes. abc7ny.com/post/78-newa...

2 women killed in crash on I-78 after tractor-trailer overturns onto car in Newark.

State police said the driver of the Mack tried to swerve to avoid the stopped Chevrolet, but the truck overturned onto the car.

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“We urge the mayor and his administration to consider more fiscally prudent and transformative alternatives that don’t entrench Robert Moses’ failed urban highway experiments at the expense of our communities.”

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2mo ago

Mayor Mamdani's new $4 billion plan to rebuild the BQE's aging "triple cantilever" stretch would cement the Robert Moses-era infrastructure in place for another half century. Experts say there's another way. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/25/m...

The BQE replacement project is a misuse of public funds that preserves a status quo with little benefit to New Yorkers at great expense. See our full statement:

In Jersey City asthma rates can be tracked based on neighborhood proximity to a highway, and yet transportation, health, environmental departments, and even environmental groups do not prioritize fighting highway expansions and transportation policies to address air quality. tinyurl.com/7xc2z37y

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

Whenever you hear “modernize” a highway, just picture a car saying it. “Substandard shoulders, tight curves and closely spaced interchanges have created insufficient weaving lengths” = wahhh drivers have to pay attention and slow down 😢 Also? Bigger shoulders = future “flex lanes” for more cars.

Given their track record, I find it difficult to believe that these new merge lanes are needed for safety. www.app.com/story/news/l...