Naqiy Mcmullen
@NaqiyNY
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Advocate for frequent transit, affordable housing, & safe streets 🚲🚶🏽🚄🚋🚎🚌 🌃 Chicago booster, ancestral New Yorker, FL refugee
Evanston, IL
Joined November 2010
The conservative mind literally can't comprehend this
@NaqiyNY Carrying bags of groceries and taking public transportation back home is a perfect way to bring your family broken bags cracked eggs melted icecream and squished bananas.
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Crazy people actually believe this when public transit is proven to be the safest form of transportation
@NaqiyNY I'm more likely to be murdered on public transportation than be run over as a pedestrian.
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A surface parking lot replaced with 800 apartments & a grocery store next to Chicago's busiest subway line, this is the way
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"Elevated railways with a capacity of 40,000 people per hour are being torn down while elevated highways with a capacity of 6,000 per hour are being erected" -Transit Journal, 1935.
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Never forget that Reagan ensured no massive modern Metro system like BART or WMATA would be built ever again, and Trump will be just as destructive for transit if elected
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Bikini Bottom has buses every 3 minutes, every city needs transit this good
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Chicago is the greatest city in the world because it's the only one to have the two best grocery stores in the same building in walking distance from the subway
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Upstate New York has the best small city urbanism in the country
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The US had 73,000 miles of electric rail and 16 billion annual riders in 1923, we lost so much in the last 100 years
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A half empty bus still likely has 15 people on it most cars only have 1.
DESANTIS DEPOLITICIZES TRANSPORTATION. "Some activists want to make driving so miserable that people have to abandon their cars.". Leftist cities and counties will cut lanes for half-empty buses and exorbitant bike lanes. "That's not going to happen in FL." -@GovRonDeSantis
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There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
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This should be the largest vehicle cops are allowed to drive
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Hot take: diverse building heights are more visually appealing than uniform building heights
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Car brained commenters often cite dangerous transit as a reason to drive. To address this claim I mapped homicides on transit compared to deaths from cars in several large cities. First is NYC, where more pedestrians die than drivers
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Most of the country is neither dense nor walkable, but every state has at least a small amount of urban places. To highlight unheralded urbanism, I’m mapping the highest density Census tract in every State in descending order 🧵
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This might be an unpopular opinion but string lights are really good for improving the aesthetics of a street
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The world needs more small taverns tucked under railroad bridges
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@maxdubler These people clearly have never walked or taken transit before or they would see disabled people are much more harmed by the car dependent status quo than abled people.
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The Morgantown PRT is the most underrated transit system in America. It has led to a booming economy for the geographical constrained city by allowing growth without congestion. With 16k daily riders, it is proof that automated transit is viable even in small cities
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@ChristalksUSA I live in Albany lol, winter is much easier to deal with than constant heat & humidity.
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It's insane that pedestrian deaths have increased by 75% in the last decade yet the media's main focus is fearmongering about transit
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Rapid transit ridership outside of NYC is so sad, Chicago and DC should have at least a million daily riders
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Every city should have a comically oversized ordinary object as a tourist attraction
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@romyilano @CagninaPaul @baywheels It's very easy to transport a week's worth of groceries or a 100 pounds of gardening supplies with a simple bike trailer!
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Daily interstate traffic volumes, aka where we should be building High Speed Rail
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The NYC metropolitan area is only 6% of US population, but had 47% of total transit ridership in 2023. The rest of the country should be embarrassed
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San Diego has the highest light rail ridership in the country after opening the UC Blue Line extension last year, not bad for the California city everyone forgets about.
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The US is falling badly behind the rest of North America for rapid transit ridership, it only has 3 of the top 10 highest ridership systems on the continent despite being the richest country in the world
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So many people claim to care about climate change yet constantly fight any attempt to make cities less car dependent
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The NYC metro area accounted for 69% of total US rail ridership in 2023
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Northeast urbanism is so much better than the the rest of the US, even small cities like Hartford & Albany have as much transit ridership as massive Sunbelt metros like Charlotte & Orlando
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Milwaukee's Mayor talking about destructive highways & walkable communities at the DNC is a great example why MKE is secretly one of the best cities in the US
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Looking at Amtrak ridership by station I'm convinced we should have built high speed rail connecting San Diego-LA and Chicago-Milwaukee before attempting the arduous task of HSR between SF & LA
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Good news for LA: their light rail system has jumped San Diego to have the highest ridership in the nation, following a 30% year-over-year increase from the opening of the Regional Connector
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Apartment buildings add character to boring single family neighborhoods
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Fake tourist trolleys are the absolute worst transit vehicle and should be banned
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gay person: i’m gay. straight person: i’m straight. bisexual person: i’m bisexual. person who drives everywhere and fights against apartments: I'm an environmentalist.
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Not connecting PATH to the Subway after 9/11 was the biggest missed opportunity for better transit in NYC history
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My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were walking around Lower Wacker together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'"
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An incomplete map of the intercity bus network in the US, we should nationalize Greyhound and fund it properly
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Randy Clarke's impressive leadership in DC is leading to real results, with Washington Metro having a 22% ridership increase over last year
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@north0fnorth Why the fuck was it nominated for best pop performance in the first place lol.
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The High Line should have been a 7 train extension instead of a tourist attraction
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Imagine how many lives would be saved if every truck was this size
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Boston would be such a better city if these proposed rapid transit expansions from 1947 were built
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Transit agencies need to create family passes to make it cheaper than driving for families.
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It's appalling that Logan Square is one of the most in demand vibrant neighborhoods in Chicago yet has lost over 10k people in the last 20 years, we need to ban multifamily to single family conversions
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You're telling me this is all one train line, wtf is going on in the UK
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Life hack: you can save tons of money traveling from New York to Philly by taking Metro North, NJT, the River Line, and PATCO instead of Amtrak
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The US would have great transit if we built automated trains for everyone instead of just for airports
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After the Red Line Extension is finished, extending the Blue Line to Schaumburg should be CTA's top priority. Chicago residents deserve better transit access to IKEA & Woodfield Mall!
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Chicago's relatively low housing costs means it has a lower rate of people experiencing homelessness compared to most other big US cities
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Bus speeds have declined for 7 of the top 10 US agencies in the past decade. Slower buses means agencies have to spend more to maintain service or reduce frequencies. We need a massive federal program to fund bus lanes, signal priority, & other tools to get our buses moving!
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Most US cities have terrible bus systems, but even the most sprawling metros have some corridors with frequent service & high ridership. To highlight the humble bus, the backbone of transit systems, I'm mapping the highest ridership bus route for each top 30 MSA
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Failed presidential candidate Ron Desantis launched his latest culture war by attacking bikes and buses to energize the car-brained conservatives who despise cities. Attacking transit has been a common strategy by FL Republicans, starting with Jeb's war on High-Speed Rail 🧵
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@paulaoffkilter @NifMuhammad "Lovin' You" is about Maya, losing Minnie so young was such a loss!!
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Crazy the amount of climate activists I see that complain about high gas prices.
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Impressive that PATH has half the ridership on a per mile basis as the NYC Subway despite most New Jersey leaders forgetting it exists
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I want to live in the universe where the 1968 Program for Action subway expansion was fully built
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Crazy that Miami has a bus route with 6-min headways & 24 hour service that gets more ridership than most US light rail lines, yet there's absolutely no urgency to convert it to rail
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Orlando has a new train station today! Unfortunately it is in the middle of nowhere without a single bus connection, this is everything wrong with transit in America
Our first train rolled out of the NEW DeLand SunRail Station at 5:15 a.m., marking another win for rail in Central Florida! 🎉 We were thrilled to welcome locals from DeLand, Daytona, and beyond. Thank you for riding with us! Check the schedule at
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It's crazy how much better Canada's transit is than the US, random Toronto suburbs have higher bus ridership than world famous cities like Vegas & Miami
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@dtepper85 @alphanumerals @suburbsboring The only homicide actually happened to a bus driver and the murderer wasn't a passenger but a driver who had road rage
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Even after opening the longest light rail line in the world, Los Angeles still has less ridership than San Diego
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@CantPostIt @ChristalksUSA Center Square in Albany is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in the country, everyone walks here.
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Seattle is the only US city where a majority of buses are articulated, further evidence that they have possibly the best bus system in the country
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@the_transit_guy Orlando - the theme parks are walkable with good transit while the city is the exact opposite.
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The new pedestrian plaza between Clark & Ashland in Rogers Park is great, Chicago needs 100s more of these projects
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Just want to live in a world where more people ride their bike to the park than drive their bike to the park.
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Continuing this 🧵, we have a tract next to KU. It's also walkable to Downtown & Amtrak with the Southwest Chief running daily CHI-LA. Lawrence was founded by antislavery forces & was at the heart of the Bleeding Kansas conflict, a positive contrast compared to the next tract
Most of the country is neither dense nor walkable, but every state has at least a small amount of urban places. To highlight unheralded urbanism, I’m mapping the highest density Census tract in every State in descending order 🧵
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@vanillaopinions Today must have be an April fools edition because every question was hilarious
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We need to abolish borders so SD and Tijuana can be connected by light rail
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Urbanism that focuses on aesthetics only is not real urbanism
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Transit ridership for the first two weekdays of congestion pricing is up significantly over last year, with commuter rail having double digit percentage growth. Seems like CP is working as intended!
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The housing crisis in California is so much worse than anywhere else in the US
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This is why we need to pass the infrastructure bill, imagine how much better Amtrak would be with level boarding at every station.
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US bus systems continue to regain riders lost from the pandemic, with total US bus ridership up 10% over the same period in 2023.
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Two tweets hours apart that show why electing Democrats is not enough to fight climate change.
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How I feel as an American seeing Canada get all the cool new automated metros
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Car dependency is a tax on the poor. Removing fare revenue will result in worse transit service, forcing more low income people to take on the huge financial burden of car ownership.
Public transit fares are a tax on the poor. They cost too much to administer, and ignore the massive benefits of free public transit. Make public transportation free. (5/5).
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