Samuel Santaella
@samuelsantaella
Lifelong outer-borough #NYC resident; #climatechange and #trafficviolence realist; proponent of #bikeNYC, trains, trees, & many more for all. Less active rn, but not absent. 🌐 nycstreetsutures.wordpress.com
MTA Police is contributing to the problem rather than addressing it.
Earlier this week I was thinking how LIRR could buy four (4) of these, plus however many spares they need, and that's enough to run hourly service between Ronkonkoma and Greenport
Nah, the capital project would indeed move buses to the main road, but no bus lanes. They only put very short bus lanes where there's extra space for a queue jump. That's it. And to me, that's a problem. You'll notice it's missing from the map of priorities in Mamdani's recent Next Stop plan.
I finally know what these are One day I just noticed these and thought they were cool—and since then, I see these *everywhere* in my neighborhood. I don't remember seeing these everywhere. Was there a point in which they became popular? These are #ductless air conditioners. Also called #minisplit
🎶 SNECKDOOOOOOOWWNNSSS~~ cc @mayor.nyc.gov @nyc.streetsblog.org #sneckdown #sneckdowns
The three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022, is nowhere to be seen.
Hear me out: *Do* make all buses free for everyone…on Sundays. That giveaway is currently given to car drivers: they get to skip the meter.
Bus riders still need #6MinuteService. @ridersalliance.org @governor.ny.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Nature doing @council.nyc.gov's work, because @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social refused to bring Intro 1138 up for a vote: #sneckdowns FTW. Definitely makes this diagonal intersection less stressful. This snow will soon melt away. Hopefully no other lives will also melt away at the hands of drivers.
The same can be said for as long as MTA procrastinates on their three-station platform screen door pilot that they first announced back in 2022
The three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022, is nowhere to be seen.
Bus riders still need #6MinuteService. @ridersalliance.org @governor.ny.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Photo 1 is possible because Photo 2 is happening. Since the 165 St Bus Terminal in Jamaica, Queens closed for reconstruction, 4 bus lines won't run on 89 Ave anymore for a few years. That makes 89 Ave a surprisingly good location for today's block party… …and a weekly #OpenStreet, I dare say. 👀
Any thunderstorm drops my weather rating at least 4 points I hate thunder so much
The three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022, is nowhere to be seen.
The sky did my favorite thing yesterday for a few minutes #sunset
Bus riders still need #6MinuteService. @ridersalliance.org @governor.ny.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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I heard about it through the NotifyNYC app. At this rate I should be grateful Eric Adams hasn't pulled the plug on this.
I now see why MTA was apprehensive to combine the Q50 and Q90 (old Q48) in the #QueensBusNetworkRedesign. Shown below is the *scheduled* worst case scenario for how long it takes a Q90 bus to leave LGA and head back to Flushing. The Q50 to Co-op City can take a little over an hour.