Cap'n Transit @capntransit
Climate advocate, queer, ranting against bullshit for over 15 years. @[email protected]. [email protected] capntransit.blogspot.com Queens, NY Joined July 2010-
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Points to @poozer87 for transparency about his Thruway usage, and now I'm wondering how things would improve if instead he took CENTRO and Trailways or Amtrak, and interviewed their reps. Would there be more than 7 buses a day from Albany to Syracuse? soundcloud.com/user-18109193/…
Among those who've started commuting by subway as a result of congestion pricing: the Midtown diner owner who nearly convinced Kathy Hochul to kill the toll entirely. It takes him about 25 min from Astoria. apnews.com/article/mta-co…
Congestion pricing exemptions for municipal workers or other groups come at a high cost, and they'd mean everyone else pays more. Read more in our recent report with @RegionalPlan: pcac.org/report/municip…
We oppose A551 to exempt NYPD officers from congestion tolls. It gives a special interest a $22 million handout that will just need to be paid by other tax or tollpayers. We ask the Legislature to NOT pass this bill. buff.ly/4hjrxHV
THE GUY IS FROM ASTORIA?!?!
Among those who've started commuting by subway as a result of congestion pricing: the Midtown diner owner who nearly convinced Kathy Hochul to kill the toll entirely. It takes him about 25 min from Astoria. apnews.com/article/mta-co…
Based on population, Rockland County contributes precisely its fair share to the the MTA Capital Plan - a little more than 2%. This includes interest on the debt. @poozer87 please call out Rockland politicians who falsely claim there's a "huge deficit"! capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/03/about-…
"A major goal of our climate policy has to be getting people out of cars and on public transit, onto buses, onto bikes, onto trips on foot,” said @TransAlt's @alexa_sledge Less carbon-intensive modes of transit are “always going to be substantially more environmentally friendly”
The climate benefits of NYC’s hard-won congestion pricing plan grist.org/article/the-cl…
@bluemarbleproj Thank you for all your hard work to make this happen, Alex!
The reduction in noise pollution is such a welcome outcome. I never realized how much agitation I got from just being outside in a traffic mess.
And I know I keep saying this but the virtual disappearance of anger honking in my neighborhood was a complete surprise and is the best congestion pricing side effect
@ShabazzStuart @Derrick_NYC Nostalgic Gen Xers remember! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(New_Yo…
@SenatorCooney @AlstomUSA Thanks again for your support of high-speed rail, Senator! Don't you agree that Hornell - where they've made trains for over a century - should have passenger train service again?
@ABarnardNYC And the time not spent sitting in traffic lowers the taxi fare, right?
It only took 3 days for New York to warm up to the benefits of congestion pricing after years of being propagandized by the dumbest and/or most self-serving political influencers in the state… we need to find ways to be louder than them if we wanna get things done quicker
NYC Transit needs to be better at adapting bus schedules. It took them months to adjust the M14 schedules to account for faster travel after they instituted the 14th Street Busway. We can't really afford to take months to adjust bus schedules to account for congestion pricing.
Traffic is so much lighter in the congestion zone that MTA buses are running ahead of schedule. I've taken 3 buses down Lexington Ave. where the drivers sat at bus stops and green lights to avoid arriving early.
Key difference is that Routes 1-5 are within the congestion zone, while the bridge/tunnel routes just enter it. Why does it matter? It matters because of taxis and for-hire vehicles (FHVs - Uber and Lyft). These vehicles, by their nature, enter the area and take many trips there.
@eaconner And even that "before" map only shows congestion in downtown JC and in Newark, a tiny fraction of the length that Murphy wants to widen!
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@eaconner @dknopfler @GovMurphy @NJTurnpike Bergen County is only the most dense because Hudson contains the Meadowlands, right? Anyway, there were plans to reactivate passenger service between Hackensack and Paterson. They could extend it to Ridgefield Park and North Bergen, even Edgewater! capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-suz…
Congestion Pricing is in effect today. As of January 5, 2025, vehicles entering the Congestion Relief Zone in Manhattan—local streets and avenues at or below 60 Street—will be charged a toll. More via @MTA, incl. information on discounts and exemptions: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
@eaconner @KnicksRaph @Interstate2025 Not even parking! There was a time when they were laying a new gas line on my block, so all the parking on one side was removed for like a month. Nobody complained that it was more difficult to find a parking space. And with a subway coming, people could sell their cars!
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