TIL there is a brand new $4.5 billion bridge between Detroit and Windsor sitting unused because it has gotten caught up in Trump's petulant trade fight with Canada prospect.org/2026/06/08/g...
Will the trade war leave a new bridge just sitting over an international waterway?
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Interesting read (as usual from @yonahfreemark.com): transit service levels, ridership & housing unit growth in large metros. Some surprises among ranking of transit service miles provided per capita by metro but less surprising a strong (not absolute) relationship between service levels & frequency
Monday's Most Read # 1 - Transit-Oriented Development Can Help Cities Grow. Which Urban Areas Are Doing Best? link.theoverheadwire.com/j8nrc Urban Institute @yonahfreemark.com
"...income group stratification sharpened post-pandemic. By 2024, low-income renters, on average, spent 57.6% of their income on rent, as nominal incomes at the lower end of the wage distribution struggled to keep pace with rising rental rates."
www.chandan.com/post/the-k-s...
Most large urban areas throughout the US have increased their housing supply near transit over the past four decades, encouraging more residents to live in n…
Awesome news, as it creates the groundwork for the Q train to connect with the 2/3, A/B/C/D, & 1 trains, improving connections between the east & west sides of Manhattan.
If you really wanted to do something wild & impactful, you'd keep the tunnel going past Broadway, under the Hudson, & into NJ.
Thanks to an expansion to Bellevue that opened in late March, the Seattle region's light rail system is now the most-used in the US.
@mclindblom.bsky.social confirms: Sound Transit is reporting about 155,000 daily trips on its Link light rail services www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
DUSP alumni representing!
I've been arguing for the 125th Street crosstown extension of the Q only since.... 2008
New York City just reported its lowest murder rate in recorded history www.amny.com/news/may-202...
In total transit ridership per capita, the highest ranked large urban areas are:
1—NYC
2—SF
3—DC
4—Boston
5—Seattle
6—Chicago
7—Philly
8—LA
9—Portland
10—Salt Lake
www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...
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The Second Avenue Subway is New York City’s biggest mass transit project, and its second biggest infrastructure project, just a little less expensive than the massive Water Tunnel Number 3, w…
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...
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin claims Mamdani is "absolutely destroying a great city"
Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington.
Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.
