sam
@sam_d_1995
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇🚞 congestion pricing enjoyer https://bettercities.substack.com/
this is unironically how infrastructure policy works in America
Unpopular opinion; These are beautiful and we need to build more of them (I own the construction business that builds them)
🚦Less traffic. Cleaner air. Faster commutes. Safer streets. Thanks to congestion pricing, NYC has: ✅ 67k fewer cars ✅ Subway & bus ridership up ✅ Traffic deaths down ✅ $15B for transit upgrades This is progress — and we’re just getting started.
the most frustrating thing about the housing crisis is that it’s entirely self-inflicted Local governments have literally made it illegal to build anything other than a McMansion in most of the country
When it comes to one of the most basic necessities for people – housing – both political parties have failed to deliver. It’s a problem of our own making, but it’s one we can get ourselves out of. I’m on the Senate floor to explain how we do it. Tune in.
very strange how the transportation secretary keeps fearmongering about one of the safest forms of transportation and is silent about the fact that America has the most dangerous roads of any developed country
New Yorkers should not be forced on dangerous subways to avoid paying an elite tax. Lawmakers’ NYC congestion pricing scheme is textbook class warfare and @USDOT is fighting to end it.
I think that tall buildings are cool. also this “tower of darkness” is only 22 stories lol
Dublin’s new tallest building: This tower of darkness should never have been allowed irishtimes.com/culture/art/20… via @IrishTimesCultr
It’s been said before but it’s still really funny that a country of people with some of the easiest lives on earth voted to elect the candidate that ran on shutting down all the universities and work from home jobs to send everyone back into the coal mines
boomer housing policy: step 1: buy house for $10k in 1970 step 2: use NIMBY tactics to block other housing from being built step 3: due to housing shortage your home is now worth millions step 4: complain that property taxes are too high because your home is so valuable
I agree. Do you?
the same thing is happening in New York City where progressive city councilmembers are embracing pro-housing reforms it’s honestly been extremely encouraging to see how much left-NIMBYism is collapsing over the past few years
Credit where its due. The Chicago Progressive Caucus has really turned a corner on their housing abundance policy. Three aldermen are sticking their neck out big time to support ordinances that would increase the housing capacity allowed on Broadway. They are doing this over…
Paris-Bordeaux and Miami-Jacksonville are both approximately 300 miles apart In France, it’s a 2 hour high speed train with 30 departures every day. In Florida, it’s a 10 hour train that comes twice per day. you tell me which one sounds like a “third world” country
Hot take: Europe is a bunch of third-world countries with better branding. No A/C. No dryers. Ice is a luxury. You’ll sweat through dinner while the waiter ignores you for 2 hours. Say what you want about America, but at least eating out doesn’t feel like hot yoga with bread.
in all of 2025, two New Yorkers have been killed on the subway. in comparison, two New Yorkers were killed *last night* in a single car crash in Chinatown. why doesn’t Sean Duffy care about that?
If New York is going to force people to take the subways, make them safe! @RepJerryNadler and his allies spent YEARS demanding to DEFUND POLICE. @USDOT is fighting for law enforcement, transit workers, and commuters demanding New York leaders secure the subway.
Take it from a Queens parent: six months in, congestion pricing is working. Safer streets. Less traffic. A stronger economy. Better transit. That’s what progress looks like.
Congestion pricing made us stay in NYC trib.al/zhTU7XB
congestion pricing literally cannot stop collecting Ws
Oh by the way, amid all the mayoral campaign transit proposals, two more congestion pricing lawsuits against the @mta were dismissed. #traffic #transit #congestionpricing
it should probably be a bigger news story that republican state senators are about to functionally destroy Philadelphia’s transit system
For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed. Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, NEXT MONTH. 45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?” Link in 1st reply.
last night, I saw a Porsche parked illegally, blocking the entire sidewalk. I looked up the license plate and the driver racked up 108 tickets in 3 years, including 15 school zone speeding violations in the past 10 months. why do we allow these psychopaths on the road?
it’s kind of crazy how the New York Post has just become state propaganda for the cult of Trump
🚨BREAKING: Loud boos ERUPT the moment Donald Trump appears on the Jumbotron during the National Anthem at the World Cup Final. The camera cut away almost instantly. The world is watching and MAGA is crumbling.
the fact that in most of America you need to buy a car (+parking, insurance, maintenance, gas, etc) to live your life because walking, biking, and transit infrastructure is so bad
What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
ok I was pretty skeptical of the Epstein conspiracy theories but this is legitimately getting super weird
a deranged Trump claims Obama and Hillary wrote the Epstein files and urges people to not care about them 🥴
Los Angeles upzoned one (1) single family neighborhood next to a transit stop. The homeowners sold their houses at huge profits and now 600 new homes are being built. With any luck, we will repeat this win-win-win hundreds of times across the city and state after SB 79 passes.
Upzoning wealthy areas delivers housing: (There are more homes under construction in the two block radius of this formerly single family West LA neighborhood than all of DTLA)