“The E.P.A. calculated the health benefits of the new regulation at about $1.5 billion annually from reductions in cancer, heart attacks and strokes and birth complications.” #ForeverChemicals nytimes.com/2024/04/10/cli…

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

Senate needs to get in line with House, Healey on transit funding - CommonWealth Beacon #mapoli . commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/senate…

Biden talking about Trump’s plan to raise taxes!

Our new study on Nature Cities quantified the causal effects of remote work on car and transit travel across the entire US. We found that transit ridership was more affected by remote work than car travel: nature.com/articles/s4428…, with MIT Transit Lab Jim Aloisi [email protected]

This telling of history is objectively wrong. The “abortion is a state issue” claim is new. Pre-Dobbs Republicans fought for nationwide abortion restrictions for years each session they ran the House or Senate. Donald Trump supported nationwide abortion restrictions as president.

Dear ⁦The Boston Globe⁩ please
1/ stop using uninformed & incendiary terms like “doom loop”
2/ advocate for repealing the Home Rule restrictions on #mapoli municipalities that needlessly prevent them from acting in their best interests bostonglobe.com/2024/03/29/opi…

Boston's rep on MBTA board asks T official's confidence level that maker of new trains would deliver all vehicles by end of 2027.

His response is....😬

via Bruce Mohl
commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation…

I’m hoping these articles will help inform the #mapoli discussion regarding the necessity of finding stable & fair ways to fund our public transit & highway systems & raising ample, adequate revenues that respond to our consensus values.

A new transportation funding system that does heavily subsidize drivers – which is what we do today – will require decisionmakers to consider multiple revenue mechanisms, including a combination of annual fees tied to car ownership & road user charging commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/lets-g…

Let's get our terminology right on road pricing - via CommonWealth Beacon. This is part 3 of a series #mapoli . cc: ⁦The Fort Pointer⁩ commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/lets-g…

“Here is the exercise I would like to recommend to the governor and her leadership team, and indeed to each of us: What is the public transit and rail system we want operating in metro Boston in 2040?” commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/about-…

Here’s part 2 #mapoli : commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/about-…. cc The Fort Pointer

First steps toward a coherent transportation revenue plan - via CommonWealth Beacon /. (as promised ⁦⁦The Fort Pointer⁩). This is 1 of a 3 part series #mapoli . commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation…

“World War II also showed what happens when we leave victims out” - nytimes.com/2024/03/15/opi…

You canceled my contract after our interview. I don’t think you believe in free speech.

Looking forward to being back on CNN tonight to discuss my Elon Musk interview with Erin Burnett - tune in at 7ET

I’m back! March 18th.
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.MBTA cell service in Red Line tunnels has degraded over the past few months, are there plans to resolve this?