Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W

Aaron W. Gordon

46 posts

Aaron W. Gordon

@A_W_Gordon

Data reporter at Bloomberg News. I don't check this account.

Joined February 2011

Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
The MTA Board cannot back away from Congestion Pricing now. It would violate the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act that explicitly stated the MTA board is an independent body and should be making all decisions with the MTA's fiscal responsibility its primary concern.
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @A_W_Gordon
Before he died, the author of that law, Richard Brodsky, told me he wrote that bit into the law "in order to make it absolutely clear as a matter of law that the transportation policies of the MTA are to be set by the board, not by elected officials."
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @A_W_Gordon
There could not possibly be a clearer violation of 2009 PARA than the MTA board voting to deny itself $1 billion in annual revenue in exchange for promises of revenue to be named later. Just crystal clear. Fiduciary suicide for politics. Exactly what the MTA was created to avoid.
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @A_W_Gordon
This is the ultimate test for the integrity of the MTA Board. They would all, in the most obvious fashion, be violating their sworn duties as fiduciaries of the MTA by delaying congestion pricing. They would be violating the law. No one is making them do this. It is up to them.
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jul 8, 2024
Hey, today was my first day at Bloomberg! I'll be a data reporter doing cool data stories on the data desk. Exciting!
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @A_W_Gordon
Again, in 2018, Brodsky told me, "Until there is a board of the MTA that asserts its primary obligation to make the decisions about transit, the system will continue to malfunction."
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @A_W_Gordon
In 2014, former MTA head Richard Ravitch testified at an MTA board meeting about this exact dynamic and how it is resulting in the long-term harm to the agency he so ably saved in the 1980s. youtube.com/watch?v=beNiR-…
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 8, 2024
I have never been more tempted to send out an emergency Signal Problems than I am right now.
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Feb 2, 2024
Ted Mann consistently provided some of the best transit and infrastructure reporting in the country for the WSJ. He was single-handedly a major reason I paid for a subscription.
Daniel Lippman
@dlippman
Feb 2, 2024
NEW: Major layoffs at the Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau yesterday left the newsroom reeling. “This is like dropping a neutron bomb on the newsroom,” said one of the reporters affected. I got the names of most of the journalists who were laid off: politico.com/newsletters/pl…
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jan 23, 2024
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the cycle here that Boeing fucks up, Airline CEOs get angry, Boeing offers steeper discounts to get new orders, Boeing cuts costs further to make up for it, Boeing fucks up, airline CEOs get angry....
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Aug 2, 2024
My first story for Bloomberg is, characteristically, about a bad commute. A *very* bad commute.
NJ Transit Train Fiasco Traps Commuters for Hours With No AC in Tunnel
From bloomberg.com
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Feb 27, 2024
I'm going to be helping Proof News out with investigations on climate and the tech industry in the coming months which is very exciting! Julia is one of the best people in news and her vision for Proof, which you can read more about here, is spot on:
Julia Angwin
@JuliaAngwin
Feb 27, 2024
I’m delighted to announce that today I’m launching a new nonprofit journalism studio: Proof News. Proof is into proving things! We question, test, and investigate the most important issues. We will always tell you what we know and what we don’t know. proofnews.org
A Letter From Our Founder
From proofnews.org
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Aug 29, 2024
There has been a lot of coverage of fare evasion in NYC recently. I will note the MTA made major changes to how it measures fare evasion a few years ago. This methodological change is super important but I haven't seen it mentioned in any coverage. mtaig.ny.gov/Reports/20-17.…
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Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 8, 2024
Here it is
Aaron W. Gordon
@A_W_Gordon
Jun 8, 2024
I have never been more tempted to send out an emergency Signal Problems than I am right now.
signalproblems.substack.com
Plain, Simple Common Sense
In October 2018, Richard Ravitch invited me to his office for a chat.
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