A "rapid disassembly" is what happened at Chernobyl. They didn't say "unscheduled" but it was most certainly unscheduled. [If you liked this hot take, follow me at that other site] mastodon.social/@BenRossTransi…

Next Tuesday, I will speak at the Action Committee for Transit Meeting: "A Peek Inside the Toll Lane Project -- Revelations from newly released FOIA documents." It's quite a story. Silver Spring Civic Center, May 9, 7:30 pm. Open to all.

My talk tomorrow: "A Peek Inside the Toll Lane Project -- Revelations from newly released FOIA documents." It's quite a story. At the @actfortransit meeting, Silver Spring Civic Center, 7:30 pm. Open to all.

Noisy drivers may show up at hearings. Kids express their views on the Little Falls Pkwy road diet in chalk.

Had lunch today at Post Pub. Having eaten there a few times in its glory days, I believe I'm the first person who ever went inside it in search of fresh air.

interrupting some offline work to chime back in with nothing more or less than this key reminder via Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈

“Today was a dark day for Israeli democracy. The push to topple democratic consensus in Israel by a right-wing, extreme government, must be challenged. " read our entire statement at jewishlabor.org

My new article exposes dishonesty & bad science in the traffic forecasts for Maryland's I-270/I-495 toll lane project. marylandmatters.org/2023/08/25/opi…

Gov. Moore's budget would slash bus & train service. The legislature can fix it. ACT has a web page where you can look up your state senator and email them. Send them a message: No cuts in transit. actfortransit.nationbuilder.com/save_transit

A giant step forward made possible by thousands and thousands of us joining together and speaking out… 🚨THIS IS HUGE.🚨

Says something that one of Joe Biden's trademark lines is, "The middle class built America, and the unions built the middle class." #SOTU2024

Faced with the choice between zero emission buses and providing good service, Austin’s transit agency is choosing good service. Expect this debate in many US cities. Battery electric technology just does not seem to be delivering on range and reliability.

The U.S. sets higher standards for those who want to join the country than to lead it. If Trump were an immigrant, here are 21 awkward questions he’d have to answer truthfully to get a green card or become a U.S. citizen. (Warning: very long thread.) 1/ justsecurity.org/98855/good-mor…

Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Turns out traffic modeling used to justify expensive road projects can be pretty shady, thx @benrosstransit and @joe_cortwright for laying out a damning case here dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

New online: Benjamin Ross and Joe Cortright on the pseudoscience of traffic modeling. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

How highway engineers use doctored and biased traffic forecasts to push for billions in wasteful, destructive highway expansion projects. Ben Ross and City Observatory's Joe Cortright expose the deception in Dissent. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Roadway expansions rely on bogus traffic models: Highway agencies "predict worse traffic if the highway isn’t widened and better if it is, and [they] fend off criticism by obscuring the basis for these predictions in a fog of complexity." dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

New #TalkingHeadways podcast Streetsblog USA Joe Cortright City Observatory and Ben Ross Benjamin Ross join the podcast to talk about their recent article in Dissent magazine pushing back on highway modeling. bit.ly/429hdOe