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welp here’s one alternate to congestion pricing tactic to collect money —




NYC to get historic increase in red light cameras around the 5 boroughs

By Barbara Russo-Lennon
Posted on October 23, 2024


New York City officially has the green light to expand red light cameras throughout the Big Apple, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday.


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Not to sound like the clipbait title of a youtube video, but this is good, actually.
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Just a curiosity: can anyone post the LIRR departure times from Penn Station to Jamaica from 1am to 5am before the new February 2023 times? Thanks.
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Demetrius Crichlow becomes permanent head of NYC Transit, pledges to stick around for long haul

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on October 23, 2024


Demetrius Crichlow is officially the president of New York City Transit. He shed his interim status overseeing the MTA’s subway, bus, and paratransit operations while promising to stay for the long haul in a tough executive job where retention has been difficult.

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber announced Wednesday that Crichlow, a third-generation MTA employee, had ascended to the top of the totem pole in NYCT, 27 years after beginning his career at the MTA as a signals maintainer for the Long Island Rail Road.

“Demetrius bleeds MTA Blue. It’s been in his family for generations,” said Lieber at the Oct. 23 announcement. “To state the obvious, Demetrius Crichlow really knows our system.”


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tunneling out of an ibx obstruction —




MTA looking to dig tunnel underneath Queens cemetery for IBX light rail project

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on October 29, 2024


The MTA says it is considering digging a tunnel underneath a Queens cemetery to carry the proposed Interborough Express (IBX) light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens, nine months after amNewYork Metro exposed the grave potential consequences of previous plans to run trams on the street.


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The MTA now says it intends to run the Interborough Express through a tunnel under a Queens cemetery, following an amNewYork Metro investigation exposing the pitfalls of its alternative street-running proposal. File Photo by Paul Frangipane
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It remains startlingly shocking this would even need to be explained to the MTA. I have loads more to say about this but I don't feel like it.
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yeah i was never worried about street running. i knew they would come around to this as they started engineering and design. and lo and behold they have. i mean yeah shovel another pile of coins in, but it could not be more obvious.
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Is the choice for light rail vs. heavy rail a financial one or an existing conditions one?
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Their claim is that the East NY tunnel precludes the use of subway sized cars, which we all know is bullshit, just like we knew that the Lutheran cemetery tunnel claim was bullshit.
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Also lol at the MTA saying the tunnel will cost $3 billion.
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in other ibx news, an rfp went out —




MTA releases RFP for engineering phase of Interborough Express 

Oct. 30, 2024

The RFP represents a major step in the design of the transformative transit project, which will connect communities in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., to 17 subway lines, 51 current bus routes and more.


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let’s all get ready to go to long island —


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Also lol at the MTA saying the tunnel will cost $3 billion.
That's of course a ridiculous price, but it was based on 1.5 miles of tunneling to bore deep under the cemetery (and several levels below the existing freight tunnel).

The new plan is to cut/cover two additional tracks next to the freight tunnel. It's only 500' of tunnel structure, but it means the cemetery needs to move one of their mausoleums that sits in the way. They have a much larger mausoleum that is newly built, so any "residents" that are relocated would only move a few hundred feet away and into a nicer/newer facility. It may even be possible to leave the existing mausoleum in place and dig underneath it, but that seems very risky from a construction standpoint.

https://allfaithscemetery.org/mausoleums/
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It looks like you will need to hitch a ride to Rockaway beach next year...

Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum
The sun is out and I want some
It's not hard, not far to reach, we can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach


No train service to Rockaways for 4 months next year, MTA says
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It looks like you will need to hitch a ride to Rockaway beach next year...

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It's not hard, not far to reach, we can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach


No train service to Rockaways for 4 months next year, MTA says
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/tra...year--mta-says
january 17 to may 19.

not the most popular beach going months at least.

also hoboken path station is closing january 30 to february 25 for station rehab.
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ayy ok —



NYC officially decriminalizes jaywalking, ending a 66-year ban that was scarcely enforced

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on October 31, 2024


Cross with the light, wherever you’d like!

New York City has officially decriminalized jaywalking, giving a legal patina to a practice long adopted by virtually every Big Apple resident.


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New York City has officially decriminalized jaywalking. Photo via Getty Images
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umm, yeah hochul has work to do on a lot of fronts before trump gets in there —



Advocates push Hochul to start congestion pricing before Trump takes over

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on November 6, 2024


New York’s mass transit system could be in for an uncertain future under a second Donald Trump administration, and advocates are now pushing Gov. Kathy Hochul to start the congestion pricing program before his inauguration on Jan. 20.


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