Last night I got the following e-mail from the Hampton Jitney company, which runs buses from Manhattan to the Hamptons — the main way to get there if you don’t like the mess that is the Long Island Rail Road and can’t afford a helicopter:

Brilliant, Bill, brilliant — the Sandinistas couldn’t have done it better. (The Jitney, by the way, is a great, successful example of privately run mass transit. And when de Blasio’s Vision Zero thing isn’t keeping New Yorkers from getting their rosé-drinking on, it’s not a bad idea, Nicole Gelinas has argued.)