PhD student at Princeton studying urban politics and how to make our cities fairer and more affordable. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Adrian Pietrzak
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The problems of transit in the U.S. make a lot more sense when you consider that most politicians - even in the most transit rich state (!) - consider transit to be either (a) a jobs program or (b) a welfare program (or both)
The city proposed pairing protected bike lanes with loading zones on every block to avoid traffic, but that didn't stop dissent and lawsuits because everything is about parking. Priority of society hill NIMBYs is:
parking > loading zones > (big gap) if cyclists live or die
I appreciate @agounardes.bsky.social standing strong as the ONLY Dem in the entire New York State legislature to do the right thing and vote against enshrining operational inefficiency on the NYC Subway by banning OPTO expansion. If this bill becomes law, it’ll make IBX significantly less useful
Adrian Pietrzak
Adrian Pietrzak
The state Senate and Assembly this week passed a measure that would require the MTA to maintain two-person train crews on every subway line that currently has
Gelman absolutely on fire on the blog
statmodeling.substack.com/p/13-aspects...
Sad to see CBS3 stoop down to both sidesism on bike lanes, but lack of loading spaces has nothing to do with the bike lane! Only in Philly do we let drivers get away with usurping travel lanes for as long as they like
Stephen Jacob Smith
Was this bill specifically written for @aarmlovi.bsky.social?
My guess is that if anything this hurts the GOP in the long run because voters can't have their cake (vote their nationalist, white identity) and eat it too (get the liberal economic polices they also want, like minimum wage)
Also 47% this is an overestimate of native new yorkers because it also includes people who like grew up in syracuse or westchester who moved to the city
And on top of that, the midwest is the *least* common region people move from. They're not coming from ohio, they're coming from the south!
This discourse is crazy because a *majority* of New Yorkers are not from NYC! Nearly 40% are immigrants! Moving to NYC is kinda NYC's whole thing!
Adrian Pietrzak
Adrian Pietrzak
Adrian Pietrzak
Adrian Pietrzak
A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.
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Jake Grumbach
New York residents would soon be able to hang small solar panels from their windows or balconies under a measure headed for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. 🌞
The legislation would let apartment dwellers rely on solar energy to partly power their homes.
I appreciate @agounardes.bsky.social standing strong as the ONLY Dem in the entire New York State legislature to do the right thing and vote against enshrining operational inefficiency on the NYC Subway by banning OPTO expansion. If this bill becomes law, it’ll make IBX significantly less useful
