Early Addition: Would drivers still double-park in the bus lane if it was on the left side of the road?
July 9, 2025, 10:01 a.m.
Because some radical road planners have a proposal, here are your early links: Really old locomotives on NJ Transit, lightning bug summer, Sauce Boss got lost and more.

Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where Bad Bunny has a cake guy.
Here's what else is happening:
- Lightning bugs are thriving in this NYC heat and humidity.
- Mayor Adams said he's going to somehow register 1 million new voters as part of his reelection strategy.
- The United States' oldest locomotive still in regular passenger train service is chugging along NJ Transit lines.
- Today is the day the Williamsburg Giglio gets lifted.
- What if buses ran down a designated lane on the left side of the road and stopped at medians instead of running along the right side of the road where people can't seem to stop double parking?
- A rodeo bull known as Sauce Boss or Twinkle Toes, depending on who you ask, recently spent four days on the lam in Colorado.
- AI chat bots have an antisemitism problem.
- AI massage bots aren't great either.
- And finally, choo choo:
Little chimp train..🚂🦍🦍😅 pic.twitter.com/et2l06f5pe
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 9, 2025