Penn Station’s capacity record
What the federal study found inside the existing station, and what its next phase needs to test.
Transportation
research & civic
visualization.
I’m a New York transportation analyst. I use public records, operating data, and infrastructure plans to explain what a public project would actually change.
Discuss a project
Renderings and an interactive 3D model compare reconstruction in place with removal, transit, and reclaimed land along the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway.
Public research
All researchTransit access in New Jersey
Compare modeled weekday and Saturday service by census tract, with walking coverage and land-use context.
Congestion pricing data
Traffic, transit use, and bus speeds since the toll began.
Newport’s boardwalk and roller coaster, reconstructed in interactive 3D from road plans, aerial photographs, and postcards. The reconstruction distinguishes documented features from interpretation.
Congestion pricing
by district
Who pays the toll, district by district. Analysis for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign gave legislators commuting figures for their own constituents.
The public explorer includes district fact sheets, margins of error, and a downloadable dataset.
Open the district explorerPublic records
Source documents for transportation decisions in New York and the region.
Penn Station and Gateway
Reports, drawings, contracts, and correspondence.
Rockaway Beach Branch
Released agency records on the branch, QueensLink, and QueensWay.
Regional governance in the news
A century of newspaper coverage of transportation planning across state lines.
About Liam
I’ve worked on New York transportation policy since 2014, at ReThinkNYC, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA. I also chair the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee of The City Club of New York.
My independent work includes public-records research, operating analysis, and visualizations for advocates, reporters, and resident groups.
Visualization methods
Concept images are developed from public plans, aerial references, and site constraints. The method explains how AI tools are used and how outputs are checked.
Read the method