This trip would officially end with United canceling my direct flight to Newark and having to now connect via Chicago instead.
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This trip would officially end with United canceling my direct flight to Newark and having to now connect via Chicago instead.
A birthday trip to Tokyo was just what I needed š¼āØ
NJ Transit has had enough of light rail line problems www.nj.com/news/2025/09...
Tell me Iām wrong but contracted service operations are generally worse than those in house. This can only be a good thing, not to mention that it shows that NJT is thinking of things that arenāt ācutā and āoutsourceā. www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
Lincoln Park zoo! Itās great and free.
Legacy media really in true race to the bottom.
Tokyo Disneyland is āØmagicāØ
'We apologize to our...customers for any inconvenience experienced while the contractor worked to resolve the issue,' a NJ Transit spokesperson said.
Tokyo has been an actual infrastructure fever dream.
And they already have regional rail set up with faregates/scanners at all stations. Itās maddening.
it's easier to buy a gun in the united states than high-rise trousers
Tokyo got me š„°
"Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of āat least threeā people working on āinfluence operationsā in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Itās even more ridiculous when the LIRR posts on their own social accounts of fare checks at Penn Station on the platform level. They could have easily done what SEPTA did.
Time to āļøš
The Newark Light Rail. Has a subway portion downtown.
And this is with what feels like construction every weekend with trains every 30 mins. Imagine how good HBLR can be with decent headways at all hours + expansion.
Itās like realizing the stacks of towels at Bed Bath & Beyond was just one towel on a foam display.
High tide + passing hurricane means Hoboken is rather damp.
Dangerous surf, rip currents, and storm surge batter the east coast as Hurricane Erin churns nearby. Erin remains a category 2 hurricane.
Iām very excited but also very overwhelmed by the thought of heading off to Japan in a few days.
The GOP in the Pennsylvania state legislature has yet to agree to funding SEPTA. If they fail to make an agreement with Democrats, the agency, which provides 800,000 rides a day, will have to increase fares by 21.5% and eventually reduce service by a stunning 45%.
"A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday."
The NYC airports having more frequent meltdowns cutting down on some regional flights?
An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.
This is a great analysis, and also the use of an emoji key instead of a color-coded key to represent different levels of delays in the graphic is cracking me up
āTransition from a park-and-ride to live-and-ride ā and I think that is the right lens to look at this,ā Kris Kolluri of @NJTRANSIT. My story dives into which NJT properties could become mixed-use developments and the agencyās real estate strategy.
Iām curious what the status is with the Summit turn back track/yard/switch/retaining wall project. That wall is a few deep freezes from crumbling and lengthening those platforms in a project to connect them to the parking deck would help immensely.
Keystone trains typically end up being the cheapest trains between NYC and Philly. This is going to have wide-ranging impacts.
Besides my REAL ID, I canāt wait to be forced to buy a car for my right to vote. šŗšøš³ļøš»
Congestion Pricing no match for RTO.
There's proof of Alon's concept in Britain. Fast trains (what the Brits call their expresses) on the East Coast and West Coast main lines average ~90mph-plus. That's ~20% faster than the Acela between NYC-DC, despite having a equal/lower top speeds. Average speed matters as much as top speed.
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The one in Secaucus is pretty nice!
More of a reason NJT needs to get it together and extend the light rail there: www.roi-nj.com/2025/08/13/r...
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Three fires, a derailment, and a $31 million failed infrastructure project have turned the 2025 commute between New Jersey and New York into a nightmare.
Unbelievable footage from NOAAās Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.
Roadtrip to Burlington County bc NJ has like no Real ID appointments on the weekend in North Jersey for months. (I had to make this one in early June and was SOL before mine expires in Sept.).
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
Time for the Q train to Paterson and Hackensack via a tunnel to the Edgewater Branch + NYSW ROW.
Exciting progress in New York City, where the Q train extension project continues to advance. [Nowācan the MTA make good on Gov. Hochul's proposal to have the tunnel boring machines continue down 125th St in preparation for a future crosstown line, or am I naive...?]
Itās truly a disaster having cities held hostage by rural Republicans who have no interest in governing or belief in urban life.
Monstrous thing to say. In a truly just polite society youād never be allowed to criticize a foreign autocrat or Tiananmen style crackdown ever again after saying this alone
You don't even really need to transfer the JFK Airtrain to the MTA (though the reason for doing so is "the Port Authority is inept"). You just need to rationalize the fare + transfer policies. Nolan's two infill stations are some real rail deserts.
Halloween 2025 just dropped
Electric feel ā”ļøāļø #njwx
UPS61, operating with a 747-8F, had a nasty landing at TPE during Typhoon Podul. Sure looks like it was hit with some nasty wind gusts (on this third landing attempt) and an engine made contact with the runway. They taxied to the ramp after this.
I like where this is going! Transit advocates should work together to get them to commit to automation. Itāll lead to shorter platforms, making it much more fundable. The MTAās fiscal situation is iffy and projects have been canceled and truncated before because of high costs.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Adirondack chairs + sweater weather
Cars create the illusion that we all operate alone. The world zips by while we sit in solitude. We donāt pass other peopleāwe pass other cars. The car dehumanizes our neighbors and friends. The incentive to speed doubled by mechanical ease, anything that slows us down causes rage.
ššØ Klyuchevskoy is erupting and that is a problem for transpacific air traffic. Hereās traffic now (with current and forecast ash cloud locations) compared to same time last week. Flights are re-routing, with some now requiring a fuel stop.
In the mountains š²ā°ļø
And yet they just got designated as a transit village njbia.org/bernardsvill...
Oh fun another thing thatāll never happen yet cause another worthy project to probably get canceled.
lol when Iām in Japan, of course
NJ Transit also had: Strike + commuter rail service reliability the past year go deeply in the š½ with various power and equipment problems.
The MTA's weekly capital construction newsletter just noted that the IBX stations will be the first new rail stations added in Brooklyn since the G was built in the 1930s. I know this is true, but it's so glaring to see it in print like that. The G has been in full service for 88 years.
Imagine if they did this in all the LIRR surface lots.
I donāt know what has pissed me off more during this 2 1/2 hour commute home the fact that NJ Transit just decides to not update anything when Hudson Bergen Light Rail goes down or runs a bus line (16) every hour and just has it casually not show up or show in the app.
This feels like a plot line in For All Mankind.
78% of Americans say cellphone distraction while driving is a major problem in their local community. Majorities also view speeding and aggressive driving (tailgating, weaving through traffic, running red lights, etc.) as major problems where they live. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
The PATH right now feels like WMATA during its meltdown period.
The Port Authority is eventually going to have a mass casualty event on its hands between the unsafe crowding conditions that exist regularly on weekends and nonsense like this.
A pretty extreme fire on a PATH train with passengers onboard this morning at Newport has most service suspended yet again. This looks very serious. This track was out of service all weekend for work then this happens on one of first trains. More sloppy workmanship? www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity...
And trains come every 3 minutes.
One reason Canadian transit systems perform better than ours is they use this neat trick where they actually allow people to live near them
When to Rockaway Beach and now no one can go in the water because of a shark sighting so at least I can spend the day watching planes.
Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed. Over last year, cityās high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth. People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!
One of the issues is you canāt get on the Turnpike to the tunnel going east after 14B. The opportunity to divert local traffic to the highway over downtown aināt there. Marin also needs to be reimagined to not be just a feeder road into the tunnel.
The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
A hugely important verdict. The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks. People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.
#Earthquake 11 mi NW of New York City (New York) 7 min ago (local time 22:18:52). Updated map - Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience: š±https://m.emsc.eu/#app šhttps://m.emsc.eu/?id=1841300
Here it is.
Did we just have another earthquake in NJ?
If anyone wants to just watch pure chaos, grab a lawn chair and post up and this intersection. Itās beyond dangerous.
And figure out the Columbus/Marin mess. It causes ripple effects downtown.
The light rail has weekend construction so the 16 actually worked out better. Except Jersey City needs to clearly designate stops. We blew through Monitor and the Liberty State Park stop heading to JSQ thereās nothing indicating a stop. And traffic downtown is a mess. We need bus lanes.
Visiting a friend along the Pascack Valley Line and with electrification + more passing sidings + quiet crossings (even to just New Bridge Landing), this could be such a better line.
And all the different job clusters that exist a few stops away in those respective boroughs.
Seeing it in Copenhagen was a great experience! Felt like the AirTrain grew up.
IBX light rail in NYC will be faster than the NYC subway, while HBLR is excruciatingly slow through most of downtown JC and around MLK Dr. The secret sauce? Grade separation!
Today Hochul and the MTA confirmed that the planned end-to-end runtime of the IBX has been cut a full 10 min (down to 32min), and projected ridership is up 41k to 160k/day. This is the power of grade separation and the All Faiths tunnel. Kudos to the Gov and MTA! www.youtube.com/live/EhaB99v...
Letās see what kind of trains and layouts inside will be. How much space for strollers/shopping carts/bikes and more is something definitely worth questioning with this choice.
We literally have the technology in NYC to make this a light automated metro: The JFK AirTrain.
Because this project will be fully grade separated, it should be built as automated light metro (e.g., Toulouse Metro, Milan M5, Honolulu Skytrain). This can enable: āMore reliable & often faster service āMore frequent service āShorter platforms (& thus cheaper-to-build stations)
Jersey City, the city that builds. jerseydigs.com/142-steuben-...
"In Jersey City, an ongoing flood of new apartment buildings has created more choices for renters and more competition among landlords, promoting many to focus on keeping units filled rather than pushing prices higher."
New piece by Henry Zhu on the dangerously overcrowded conditions on PATH during weekend events: betterblocksnj.org/2025/07/31/p...
National Weather Service is straight-up warning about transportation and 'underground infrastructure' flooding with the expected storms tonight. It's shaping up to be a doozy. www.weather.gov/okx/weathers...
Yes, chef š§āš³š
Bus Rapid Transit in Hudson County (and real, true BRT in NJ) Is it going to finally, finally happen? www.insidernj.com/press-releas...
Booker: Iām standing for Jersey
The branches then also have a fair amount of grade crossings as well. CHW or CHE donāt.
āItās like the Hunger Gamesā¦Youāre just hoping to squeeze into the next train.ā
This new rail line, the most ambitious in 90 years, could change the face of New York City. We hopped on a freight train to film the route, and show its potential. Take a look! š www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Breaking: Union Pacific agreed to buy Norfolk Southern for $85 billion, creating the first company to control coast-to-coast rail shipments in U.S. history.