Second Ave. Sagas

Happy Subway Day! On this day in 1904, we took our very first ride from City Hall to 145 St. 122 years later, the subway continues to move the city that never sleeps. To celebrate, we've put together a thread of subway trivia 🤔🚇

You know, what? Yes, I have wondered that!!

Ever wondered who selects the poems you see in the subway? @literaryhub.bsky.social went behind the scenes of Poetry in Motion. lithub.com/who-chooses-...

From the political perspective: they would prefer to keep transit as a make-work jobs program and that's why we're the only subway system with two crew on almost every train. They're also the big reason why it took so long to end carriage horse rides.

From the former member perspective: the deals they negotiated for office workers sucked and I was told to go fuck myself when I made my feelings politely known.

'MTA Faces $95.6 Million Fuel Hit This Year From Iran War' -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s time to shove OPTO down their throats. The TWU rank-and-file shouldn’t empower anti-labor right wing chuds.

“We’re pissed off at Hochul that the bus drivers union didn’t do an illegal sympathy strike.”

It says a lot that they explicitly consider bus operators showing up to work during an unrelated rail strike to be scabs.

Yeah TBH I think the left needs to crush John Samuelson's mob as a lesson for what happens to chud unions that defect.

soooooo which one of these four are the anti-semites?

So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.

look, I understand why people blindly believe "cars will make everything better", but when they show up with AI-generated signs, protesting street safety projects being enacted because PEOPLE DIED, I can't take them seriously.

Not surprising that the overlap between the group trying to pull off an illegal coup in the Brooklyn Dem Party and the group trying to stop any sensible transit projects is huge.

It’s difficult to remember that social media comments can say anything & it doesn’t get adopted by anyone typically, but some of these declarations do percolate up to electeds who take them as fact so I wouldn’t let them go fully unchallenged either

Ultimately this is my problem with car people. They only see scenarios in which they suffer zero inconvenience as worthy compromises. They will never give up anything of value to anyone else. And they think this makes them the heroes.

This road project is a conspiracy funded by Uber vs. this road project is unfair to people who ride Ubers. People opposed to bus and bike lanes can’t get their story straight.

"donald trump and sean duffy wholeheartedly agree with the anti-bike folks here" should be used at any community meeting going forward

Big day for everyone organizing that rally at Barclays this Saturday. They’re now part of MAGA. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Good. Get these mall cops under control and figure out a better way to enforce the fare.

Not an exaggeration to say that elections in the next twelve days will have a huge effect on how many trees survive on our planet, and what its atmosphere is composed of. billmckibben.substack.com/p/elections-...

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming. n.pr/4zb8sRp

One of the reasons Transportation Alternatives conspiracy theories spread is because there are diminishingly few local news sources in NYC and people have rotted their brains on TikTok and Reels bsky.app/profile/gwyn...

This is good and the replies are full of a lot of BlueAnon-type reactions. Don’t read them.

I'm not a constitutional attorney, but I wouldn't hang my hat on a Fifth Amendment challenge succeeding here. Can John Samuelsen ever not sound like this? Be serious. bsky.app/profile/c-so...

Look, I agree, the epidemic of music without headphones on public transportation is annoying. But this does not seem to be something that needs to rise to the level of Prime Minister. You do you, United Kingdom. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

If you would like to signal your support for this needed lane before Mr. Martin hires a disgraced lawyer to waste your time and money, the meeting is tonight at 6:30pm, on Zoom or in person at the CB7 office at 4201 4th Avenue in Sunset Park karmabrooklyn.blogspot.com/2026/10/comm...

The MTA needs to make the right decision and announce that IBX will be automated. If not, it's a bad sign for the ability of everybody involved – Kathy Hochul, Janno Lieber, Jamie Torres-Springer, the NYS legislature, the TWU – to make any decision in transit's interest www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...