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    Jan 5

    Transit line openings and construction in 2018 » the annual listing and database. New on The Transport Politic 🚌🚃🚈🚇🚉

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  2. 40 minutes ago

    The commandeering of city funds for state projects—first for transit, now for a park—really makes a mockery of the idea of local control over local funds in New York, if that idea ever existed. The state is in power and will get whatever it wants.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    This is a beautifully illustrated, depressing reminder of how little we have accomplished in the past 50 years.

    Back in 1968, the Kerner Report proposed solutions to the urban crisis that are virtually identical to today's progressive policy agenda
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  4. 19 hours ago

    The thing about corporate incentives is that they're hated both by people on the left and fiscal conservatives. It just turns out that the vast space between them is filled by people who are totally fine with the idea of throwing money at big companies.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    I try not to fall into the easy claim of accusing governments of reproducing inequality through neoliberalism, but boy...

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  6. 20 hours ago

    The recklessness with which states have thrown themselves at Amazon is mind-numbing. What about the state's half a million living in poverty? What about the Baltimore neighborhoods suffering from decades of disinvestment? What about the thousands paying far too much for housing?

    . is getting exactly what he wanted from the bakeoff: a bidding war. Maryland tops NJ with $8.5B incentive package.
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  7. Apr 4

    Interesting debate in the replies to this tweet. Some have asked what my concern is. Well, my concern is that by turning transit into a literal act of historic preservation, we are making it clear what we think transit's role in our society is.

    Somehow this is what a new streetcar line looks like in America in 2018.
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  8. Apr 4

    The GOP may be plotting to cut back the increases in budgetary support for key domestic programs—think things like affordable housing assistance and public transit—that Democrats negotiated in exchange for their votes, but which Trump opposes.

    After signing a budget compromise that needed Democratic votes, Trump and the GOP Congress want to cut back all the Dem wins in the budget with a procedure that doesn't require Dem votes at all
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  9. Apr 4

    Somehow this is what a new streetcar line looks like in America in 2018.

    Streetcar 1506 taking a midnight sTROLLEY through downtown El Paso last night!
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  10. Apr 4

    Support Chicago's most important source of local transportation news!

    Terrific news! The Chicago Community Trust is *doubling* this year's SBC challenge grant -- if we can raise $50K by August 1, we'll win another $50K. We'll use the additional $25K to hire a new part-time reporter to expand our South and West side coverage.
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  11. Apr 3

    This is such an odd statement. If New York City wanted the feds to pitch in, why hasn't the project been entered into the New Starts transit funding process, *which would provide the funds*? The city's approach to BQX has been completely bungled.

    Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen suggested that the feds cover de Blasio's Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan, calling Sen. Schumer a "huge fan" of project
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  12. Apr 3

    Look, according to the Census, New York has gained 447,000 people since 2010. That's basically Atlanta or Miami. What is the plan? Is the city seriously just going to shut down the BQX and then basically do nothing for the rest of the mayor's term?

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  13. Apr 3

    He ultimately has little control over the New York transit system, but his voice has been even more minimized by the city's adherence to this BQX plan, which even the administration never really took seriously.

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  14. Apr 3

    It's true that the city has opened several new Select Bus Service corridors, which have improved bus service. And the state opened a Subway extension on 2nd Avenue. But the mayor has made no real effort to propose serious, big changes, like a Utica Avenue line or regional rail.

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  15. Apr 3

    What's ultimately sad about this story is that De Blasio became mayor in Jan. 2014, and he could have been a big advocate for major improvements in transit. This is the only marquee project he has advanced. Its route is flawed, and its design is broken.

    City may ditch de Blasio's Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan
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  16. Apr 3

    Trump's proposal is all about privatization and the use of federal subsidies to support either rural areas or toll-based highway projects. It's a good thing for the public interest that this "happening" has been delayed.

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  17. Apr 3

    A reminder that infrastructure already "happened" this year when the Congress passed an appropriations bill significantly increasing spending, unlike the Trump plan, which upon "happening" would reduce infrastructure spending.

    DJ Gribbin, Trump's top infrastructure aide, is leaving the White House, days after Trump acknowledged that infrastructure won't happen at least until after November.
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  18. Apr 3

    Despite city's investment in Loop Link "BRT" between the Loop and Union/Ogilvie stations, there remains something very appealing about a rail link between the two, especially if it could be continued along Madison into the West Loop, much of which is relatively far from the L.

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  19. Apr 3

    Interesting new history of Chicago's ill-faced downtown circulator project, which came very close to bringing a light-rail system to the center of the city, by

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  20. Apr 3

    Yes, but Elon Musk is a genius who knows how to solve everything about transportation.

    It takes 35 Tesla employees on the assembly line to produce each Model 3. Compare that to 5 Nissan workers per vehicle, or 3.5 Honda employees per car.
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    Apr 3

    Up , the Trump/Amazon situation and why Amazon owes its entire existence to government largesse

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