Activist, economist, mathematician, policy analyst, bicyclist, nature-lover, carbon-taxer, environmentalist, father, husband, NY'er, nonviolence practitioner
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What a lede! Bravo @AlexMatthiessen: "On an apparent impulse she may regret for the rest of her life, Kathy Hochul disgraced the office of the governor of New York and possibly torpedoed her political career, starting with her reelection bid in 2026." nydailynews.com/2024/06/06/h…
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Wow. You'd think the creator of a (legendary) show spotlighting racialized policing might care that speed cameras are pretty much the only safe-streets tool that works and is colorblind . . . and that in NYC way more people walk than drive. 1/2
Delete your own, mooks. You want to send me a straight speeding ticket, I pay without comment. You send me one invoking a school-zone violation, I am going to rightly note the fact that no school is operant on the date and time. In my city, we employ that statute judiciously.
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Woowoo! Bk Boro Prez Dem primary winner @ReynosoBrooklyn on @BrianLehrer just now: "Containerized garbage bins in parking spaces is how modern cities have figured out how to handle trash problems." Yes!
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"The 16 kids arrested Sunday now face harsher consequences than most drivers who actually end someone else’s life." nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/09/…
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How wonderfully refreshing. A newspaper story on NYC #congestionpricing that sidesteps driver whining and focuses on the massive benefits. Elegantly written, too. Bravo @wilfredchan. theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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Duplicate Plates of NY. I snapped these Beemer twins last Friday afternoon on St James Place across the street from James Madison Plaza. @loudurbanist @placardabuse @GershKuntzman
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It was dispiriting yesterday to come upon massive @NYPDnews moped tow pound on Bryant St in Red Hook. So many $$ & dreams dashed by owners' failure to register + selective enforcement. Safety & justice wd be better served by confiscating *autos* w/ ghost or tampered plates. 1/2
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A tale of 2 gov's: "NY Gov. Kathy Hochul took bold action to begin the process of fixing a century-old subway that moves 1.7 billion people a year, while NJ Gov. Phil Murphy seems content to watch NJ Transit get flattened by a dive off a fiscal cliff." nj.com/opinion/2023/12/enoug…
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Inspiring to see a 19-y-o climate activist school an iconic but out-of-touch journo who called NYC #congestionpricing "largely a tax on lower & middle class NY'ers." Hey @juangon68, not every struggle is bosses v. workers, or Wall St. v. Main St. There’s also cars v. people. 1/2
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A first for me: posting defaced-plate pic. Snapped today 7th Ave Manhattan just N of NW corner w/ 23 St, double-parked. Front plate similarly defaced. Brazenness hit me in the gut. NB, "Police Reserve Association" taped to plate-holder. Theft plain & simple. @nysdmv must end now.
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High on green paint. Lower Broadway (Manhattan) around 9:20 a.m. @StreetsblogNYC @bikenewyork @TransAlt
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Hey @KathyHochul: am in Park Slope Brooklyn en route to NY-4 to door knock for the Democrats. This is how we take back the House… not by turning tail and betraying NYC transit riders. If you want to meet up I’ll be in my hometown, Long Beach.
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This is "the mayhem on Rue de Rivoli" reported (?) by a Paris-based @nytimes correspondent? Look at that pic, and others in the story. The language/framing are shameful. nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world…
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Torching The Planet, my ass. What ails the U.S. climate movement in one pic. Citibike's 20 million rides a year in NYC probably did more to cut down on fossil fuels than all the Stop-The-Money-Pipeline actions anywhere. The money pipeline is the cars / trucks / SUVs.
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In-your-face activism made Cuomo bend toward #congestionpricing in 2017. It'll break his successor and force her to put MTA and traffic-reduction back on track in 2024.
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No, @brianlehrer, the "congestion tax" (nope, it's a fee) isn't "designed to keep *people* out of the central business district," it's designed to keep out a modest % of *motor v's* and improve transpo + life for all. More *people* will enter the CBD with it than do now.
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NJ's gov is still trying to torpedo a NY policy that will save *his residents* millions of hours a year they squander in traffic -- mostly west of the Hudson -- for an avg per-hr cost that's just half of the state's minimum wage. My latest in @starledger: nj.com/opinion/2024/11/gov-m…
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Damage keeps mounting from @MTA's bungled modeling that overstates trip diversion from #congestionpricing and understates trip elimination. It's four weeks since I sounded the alarm (nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/08/…) and still no coverage by NY's press corps. nytimes.com/2022/09/12/nyreg… 1/2
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Actually, @danarubinstein, @gr_ashford & @NYTMetro,
it's NOT "difficult to estimate the precise costs of turning away from the toll program." I've been doing it since 2010. Current estimate is here. (Assumes 100% benefits from transit investments rather than customary 50%.) 1/2
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The opposite of snob: my inept pal Dave and equally inept yours truly are grateful to passing cyclist for his tube-change help today on Hudson R Greenway north of the GWB. @bikesnobnyc is tops in our book!
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PS: I never told anyone but a few years ago a speed-cam issued me a tkt for doing 41 mph in my rental car on 30-mph West St (an arterial) on a weekend nite. I didn't like it for all 5 seconds it took me to figure out: A, I was in the wrong and B, I would never do that again. 2/2
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"If safer cycling seems too small a reason to throw off New York’s car culture, consider that the objective isn’t just safer cycling; it’s a city where everyone is safer because fewer people drive and egregious driving behaviors are stigmatized." Me, here: gothamist.com/2019/08/16/car…
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Bravo @GershKuntzman, both for surfacing plate defacement to the point where @NY1 would spotlight it, and redirecting @patkiernan to the core of the matter: endemic cop corruption. And, somehow, doing it all with a smile. @StreetsblogNYC @loudurbanist @defacedplateNYC @transalt
There’s a growing trend of drivers in NYC illegally obscuring their license plates to avoid speed and toll cameras. @StreetsblogNYC’s @GershKuntzman is working to expose the issue one plate at a time.
More from #MorningsOn1: specne.ws/Cg2tNY
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A profound piece testifying how economic necessity led to using a bicycle for daily living which in turn revealed the human tragedy of NYC car culture. That an elected wrote elevates it still further. We are all grateful to be rep'd by @EmilyAssembly. nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/06/…
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Everything about W 30th St heliport is repulsive: the privileged, oblivious passengers, monster SUV's ferrying them to/from, the insanely loud heli's themselves. (Exception: the kind employee who told me these were Hampton-commuter flights, not tourist flights.) @StoptheChopNYNJ
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Pure sniveling & idiocy on #congestionpricing from @SenGillibrand on @BrianLehrer. "Our city has to work for the people who live and work there ... clean air clean water blah blah," completely missing the staggering costs of traffic congestion for which she has zero plan.
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Here it is, folks – the screed that broke the record for anti-congestion pricing bullshit. And it came not from a frothing “resident” or “motorist” but from a veteran journalist -- @TheVillageSun editor Lincoln Anderson:
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Hochul's evisceration of the MTA capital plan makes former governors' "raids" of transit funding look quaint by comparison. She's made herself the Pol Pot of public transit robbery.
She's being raked over the coals by public officials who ostensibly work for her. This is really incredible. Take a look at Jamie Springer Torres' quotes here. This is all on Hochul's shoulders now.
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OK, time for us who want mass pedestrianization of NYC streets to stop ripping @NYCMayor who is too bunkered to come around. How about @kimmelman convene *practitioners* like @JSadikKhan @GridlockSam @jonorcutt @jmassengale @brooklynspoke to sketch what NY'ers can do now. 1/3
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Gaining 24-7 bike/walk access to "River Road" was one of my aims when I jumped into NYC cycling advocacy in the 1980s. Mission accomplished. Except @PalisadesParks now insists we can't ride two abreast. #nycbike needs to push back: northjersey.com/story/opinio… @nycycleclub @transalt
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Hey everyone pretending to, seeking to, or actually governing NYC: All 7 published LTE's (4 were from NY'ers) replying to last week's "Reimagining the City's streets" were *in favor*. Even the one beginning "I'm a driver." Moral: people want streets, not car sewers. 1/3
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Revenue mirage alert: Leaving aside that #congestionpricing unsnarls traffic while reducing farebeating doesn't, a lot of non-paying subway & bus passengers wouldn't ride, period, if they had to pay $2.95. The $700m is illusory.
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The women braved the 33F cold (26 real feel), the 120 foot Willy B climb (and possibly slippery descent), only to be collared by this badge-enabled martinet. Time to start new hashtag, #NYPDsadism.
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Can't say enough about @Sen_Gounardes -- the most effective safe-streets legislator in the United States (take it from one who knows). Also, a testament to the power of citizen-based electoral organizing. (Looking at you, @streetspac!)
Today I joined @NYC_SafeStreets to test drive a car with ISA speed-limiting tech. The drive was smooth, easy, and most importantly: safe.
My bill would require these life-saving speed limiters in the vehicles of repeatedly reckless drivers.
Learn more: cityandstateny.com/opinion/2…
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Wow, my advocacy to keep existing US nukes on line earns me top billing in @evanhalper's @washingtonpost story. Hey, headline writers, that's not the "only way" to save climate, but it's part of the solution and we need to deploy every single piece. 1/2
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Had to get on my bike & flee NYC & depressing news. Did a 60-miler to a fave place in Putnam Co., just over the Westchester line. Route was mostly rail-trail: Old Putnam + S and N County Trailways. Awed by quality of layout, pavement, people. Just what I needed. So fortunate.
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Theory is that plate defacers are statistically (far) more likely to drive recklessly, not just b/c of inherent thuggery but from impunity. Your selfless action was thus in *demonstrable* pursuit of public safety. Happy to help but that's like carrying coals to Newcastle. 2/2
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Errol, consider it a mark of NYers' regard & affection for you that we are meeting your egregiously bad take w/ logic & astonishment rather than flamethrowing. We all hope you'll consider, retract & join us in demanding low-policed open streets.
NYC has nearly 40,000 in hospitals and over 15,000 dead with hundreds more perishing each day. It takes a special kind of selfishness to insist that closing streets to car traffic should be a top priority right now. #StayHome
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After my @streetsblognyc post decrying bureaucratic #congestionpricing holdups went up yesterday, former MoC Dick Ottinger, a titan of federal enviro action and a pioneering enviro law dean, wrote and asked how he could help. This letter to @secretarypete was the result. Bravo!
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Hi @winsjuliet. this longtime listener happy to meet on-air or off & explain how @1010WINS can help end NYC traffic gridlock. You personally can shine light on @placardabuse by pols + NYPD. Then get station to stop bashing congestion pricing. @nicolegelinas @StreetsblogNYC
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"His car’s black box also clocked his speed at 77 mph and showed that he floored the gas pedal about a second before impact, prosecutors said." Bravo @BrooklynDA for pulling black box. Is that now S.O.P. for all crash cases? If not, why not? nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc…
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Tough to be hopeful that USA will ever attribute road carnage to drivers, built environment & subsidized motoring when even @mrichtel, 2010 Pulitzer winner for @nytimes series on distracted *driving*, goes full victim-blaming in story on "e-bike risk." nytimes.com/2023/07/29/healt…
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FFS, Jim, every sentence in your "special message" is a lie. Worse, you evinced none of this anti-#congestionpricing stance when you spoke at the Dec. 2 @ridersalliance mayoral forum despite knowing full well RA's pivotal support for CP. You didn't have the guts. Fraud.
BREAKING: Jim Walden announces his plan to stop NYC’s flawed congestion pricing policy:
"This tolling scheme unfairly burdens seniors, families, and small businesses while failing to fix transit or reduce congestion. As mayor, I’ll put an immediate stop to it on day one." - #WaldenForMayor2025
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Kudos to @DissentMag for marking #congestionpricing win by reupping the iconic 1961 article by Percival & Paul Goodman, "Banning Cars from Manhattan": "The disadvantages of our proposal are small. The cars are simply not worth the nuisance they cause." dissentmagazine.org/article/…
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Hey @andrewcuomo & @BilldeBlasio: Wanna push back for real vs. Trump's gutting of car-truck mpg standards? Shake hands on NYC congestion pricing to fully fund @FixNYCTransit, cut stop-go driving & enable low-carbon growth. @bstorrow @nicolegelinas @2AvSagas @emmagf @drvox
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Ten years ago today, on Nov 21, 2014, we photo-bombed MTA/TBTA's 50-yr Verrazano-Narrows Bridge triumphalist ceremony w/ a fly-by decrying the absence of bike/walk paths. Stunted bike-culture in So Bklyn & S.I. is due in no small part to lack of cycle connection between the two.
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Addendum: @nytimes headline reveals awful state of the discourse. #Congestionpricing isn't "a plan to push cars out of Manhattan." It's a plan to *reduce driving to and within Manhattan* that will generate vast spillover benefits by cutting regional traffic (and aiding transit).
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This train from Dakar to the countryside is as plush, quiet and comfy as any U.S. train I can remember. And this is a 2nd class car. $1.70 for 40 km. Oh, 4-5 trains an hour. (Don’t tell @travis_robert 🙄!)
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So fantastic to hear @NYCSpeakerCoJo stand squarely behind his "break the car culture" theme & push back on @BrianLehrer's snarky take on congestion pricing. As Corey says, c.p. will cut traffic AND improve air AND help climate AND fund transit. Brian, get over it, please.
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Sickening but typical: on @BrianLehrer, @NYCMayor blames lack of federal funding for his inability to improve #bikenyc safety on the streets he governs. Just days ago I and other bike savants put out scores of ideas. None required a single federal dollar: nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/07/…
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Time to reboot @AnnieLowrey's superb @TheAtlantic story last fall highlighting just how much any car trip into the zone steals time from everyone else on the roads. The tolls Hochul now deems untenable would impose just a fraction of those delay costs. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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"The killing of 3-month-old Apolline Mong-Guillemin last Saturday in Bklyn was a result of elected leaders who keep NY'ers unsafe from car drivers on our streets." Inspired crusading journalism by @GershKuntzman points a way out of traffic carnage:
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Big smile from this Toddler Against Traffic while mom, @RidersAlliance head honcho Betsy Plum, watches her fabulous organizers Derrick Holmes & Ariel Smallwood lead the Tramway Plaza pro-transit crowd in chanting "Ho Ho Hey Hey #congestionpricing is here to stay." A blast!
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It's brilliant/fearless journalism like this, sparked by terrific advocacy research (hat tip to @Tri_State), that has me believing we'll win congestion pricing this time. (Amazing how much these @NYDailyNews editorial writers put across in <400 words!): nydailynews.com/opinion/stan…
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TFW someone half your age articulates perfectly stuff you've been trying to express 4ever. Like "Just because you can go fast on a bike doesn’t mean you should; if pedestrians are constantly taking you by surprise then the problem isn’t them, it’s you." outsideonline.com/2401548/cy…
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That @starledger editorial could have gone further and called out Murphy for spending $10+B on his asinine, self-defeating NJTP Newark Bay - Hudson County highway widening. But the editorial's ringing endorsement of #congestionpricing is welcome and gorgeous. Bravo!
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.@BicyclesOnly addresses small but spirited rally decrying @nycmayor capitulation to @NYPDnews indefinite closures of City Hall bike-walk connector btw B'way & Park Row / Bklyn Bridge and of local precinct blocks.
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"It is long past time for everyone to admit that the NYPD is incompatible w safe streets. They cannot be reformed in any meaningful way. Wherever possible, their enforcement shd be eliminated." Written in 2016. If it was debatable then, it isn't any more. citylimits.org/2016/07/26/ci…
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The thing about @ridersalliance is (1) how every event they stage is built around, yes, transit riders; they bring NYC into the room every time. (2) they choreograph each event so seamlessly & fluidly that you don't see the wires & pulleys that let it happen. Yes, props to RA!
Props to @RidersAlliance for a policy-rich forum, with many solid ideas to improve transit & the streets!
Next, I want to hear each candidate’s *overall theory*: What forces led to today’s problems? How are they related? How does that diagnosis inform a full vision for tomorrow?
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Buenos Aires buses provide true rapid transit -- even ordinary street buses in addition to the BRT on Av. Cabildo shown here. They absolutely haul ass, averaging (I wd guess) 12-15 mph. Low (~5 min) headways too. And they're full. So different than my NYC. @mta @RidersAlliance
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I'm proud to have called out RFK Jr. as a moral pygmy & charlatan two decades ago, in this 2003 op-ed -- not as a conspiracist & anti-vaxxer but for helping strangle offshore windpower in the cradle. The FF industry must love this one-time "enviro lawyer." komanoff.net/wind_power/Koma…
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"A constant theme in not owning a car is liberation."
"After I sold my car, I saved ~ $6,000 a year, which helped me knock out a huge chunk of my student loan."
"A carbon tax [is where] I hope we go next."
Fantastic burst of fresh air by @laureneferree:
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I state for the record that IMO this post lambasting @emmagf, mother of a toddler & a newborn, for a decision she obviously made w/ huge reservations & regret, is facile & wrong. For my first time in 14 yrs writing for @StreetsblogNYC, I'm ashamed to be associated with it.
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I heard @NYCSpeakerCoJo say, to my question, that he'll only hire a NYPD Commish who voices a clarion commitment to stopping traffic violence & delivering traffic justice *in the job interview.* The answer reverberated through the room.
@komanoff asks if @NYCSpeakerCoJo will be willing 2 stare down the NYPD to get us #SafeStreets. Answer: ask Commish what r u doing about speeders and enforcement of drivers? @TransAlt @transbay
@PedestrianTom
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Seems to me @scottmstringer could do a world of good -- and for himself too -- by folding his tent and endorsing @KGforNYC *now*.
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"In beach communities, in bungalow colonies, we glimpse, for however long we can afford it, the freedom children had in the past. What do these summer places have in common? No. 1, no cars. Or cars consigned to their rightful place: the periphery." newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
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Thanks @streetsblognyc for adding my pie charts I inexplicably failed to include last night in my new post explaining that with #congestionpricing, more people will come to (and not through) the Manhattan congestion zone than do now. Updated post: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/…
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Didn't someone already puncture the anti-outdoor-restaurant-heater line awhile ago, finding that 1 lamp running for 4 hrs only pumped out the greenhouse equiv of one mayoral round-trip drive to the gym? Oh, yeah, it was me: @ebottcher @lincolnrestler.
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.@BAM_Brooklyn CEO channels @TheOnion: "BAM works on this block all day every day and we do not feel it is a safe route for cyclists," therefore we oppose @NYC_DOT's proposed 2-way protected bike lane that could make it a safe route for cyclists. nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/04/…
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Only a combo of ignorance, opportunism, laziness & paranoia could concoct an op-ed claiming that congestion pricing "might hurt NY'ers who don’t drive more than anyone else." I scrutinized @Maria4Dist6's co-author's mindset last spring. Surreal: nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/05/…
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Such a welcome piece. NIMBYism is in retreat, and it's about time.
If it doesn’t build more housing, fast, New York will soon shut out young, working-class and middle-class people. Only the wealthiest will remain, along with NIMBY holdouts sprinkled across the city.
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"It took me a long time to recognize my privileged position as a driver," @JumaaneWilliams told @NYC_SafeStreets at #WDoR2022 consecration today in Bklyn. One participant, moved by his passion, told him, "If you grab this issue with both arms you could transform the city."
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Tremendous outrage AND eloquence today over @GovKathyHochul's inexplicable & indefensible decision to scuttle NYC #congestionpicing. Our city's Public Advocate @JumaaneWilliams expressed both (H/T @StreetsblogNYC):
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"Exempting just 10% of CBD trips from congestion fees will reduce the pool of capital available for transit imprvmnts by up to $3 billion, shrink driver time savings 10%, and cost drivers & transit passengers a combined 27 million hours a year." My latest: nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/03/…
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Huge scoop unfolding at @StreetsblogNYC, as intrepid/dogged reporting by @GershKuntzman et al. exposes @NYPDnews malfeasance at the most elemental level: imperiling the public. Follow the moving violations. This could be a game-changer: nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/04/…
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Memo to Manhattan electeds who spoke in support of #congestionpricing last night but couldn't lay off the but but but carve carve carve out out out: This is how it's done:
We can’t ignore the dire threat vehicle congestion imposes on our City’s public health.
For this reason (+ many others), I support the Central Business District Tolling Program. It’s time for drastic change to keep our communities safe and #congestionpricing is where we start ⬇️
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Solid @NewYorker coverage of joint London action by @StopKillingCycl & @ExtinctionR. Yet a similar protest in July, 2 miles from mag's HQ here, went unreported. Indeed, in 20y of subscribing I can't recall a shred of positive reporting there on #bikenyc: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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Wow, Adam, so sorry but bravo for your courage and possibly creating a venue to blow NYC plate defacement wide open. You're the lawyer, not me, but consider a necessity defense like the one that acquitted the "QB6" in 1991? komanoff.net/bicycle/The_Tri… 1/2
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Unpopular Q: why is it OK to insist ppl wear masks to contain Covid, but not OK to ask ppl to drive & fly less, re-use, ditch incandescents, lay off SUVs & ATVs, etc. to combat #climatechange? Yes, I'm asking all you climate hawks. And yes, I do both (and work for system chng).
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Even on a hellishly humid day with a low sky (and a potbelly), bicycling in/around NYC is magical.
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It's tiring having to again refute poorly reported scare stories like today's @nytmetro "Congestion Pricing Could Bring Cleaner Air But Maybe Not for Everyone." Truth is, even taking zero credit for transit improvements, the toll will cut driving *outside the zone*. 1/3
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Worst thing is that it legitimizes the b.s. that replacing Diablo with new non-carbon power is a climate win, when all it does is run in place, which is a climate loss. I've pointed this out in multiple places, including @thenation. Synopses + links here: komanoff.net/nuclear_power/
things this piece mentions:
✔️ a letter signed by mostly anti-nuclear organizations
✔️ the guy who’s behind the deal to shut down diablo canyon
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Took a mental-health day ahead of a week of actions to reverse #Hochulsfolly. Starts with @ridersalliance-led rally at Broadway Junction tomw/Sunday at noon. Get yourself there! action.ridersalliance.org/cp…
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Me on BdB: “He doesn’t feel what 99% of NY'ers go through to travel. He makes a laughing stock out of climate aspiration by saying we have to change to combat climate change, and yet he’s not willing to change the most visible thing he does every day." theguardian.com/us-news/2019…
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Congrats Londoners & @TfL. Your daily 4 million km = 2.5 million miles. NYC's reported 460,000 daily bike trips probably equate (@ 2-3 miles per) to 1-1.4 million miles. So NYC's per capita cycling is only half London's. Predictable & pathetic.
BIGGEST ANNUAL INCREASE IN CYCLING IN LONDON ON RECORD!! 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 Now an average of 4,000,000 km are cycled every day. The highest growth is happening where we are building new infrastructure. Still much more to do, but v good news. 👍👍👍#TfLNewData
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OK, that's a terrific start. Now rinse & repeat, @NYCMayor (b/c road congestion, street safety), @NYGovCuomo (b/c @MTA toll revenues, @nysdmv), @ericadamsfornyc, law enforcement (haha). Bravo @placardabuse @StreetsblogNYC. nypost.com/2021/07/16/nyc-sh…
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Astounding & infuriating to see @BilldeBlasio spoke @WileyNorvell trot out rhetorical & antiquated talking points to diss congestion pricing instead of engaging based on actual data. And, if c.p. regressive, why does @CSSNYorg strongly support? More here: nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/05/…
I get where some folks are coming from, but congestion pricing--and flat user fees in general--have never fit neatly into a progressive matrix. Using that issue as a proxy for progressivism misses that vital point.
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So many people to thank/applaud -- everyone at @NYC_SafeStreets, @StreetsPAC, for starters. But a special shoutout to @bdhowald, whose heroism, doggedness and courage helped make dump-Marty a thing. Take a bow, Brian, you deserve it.
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This spot-on @ezraklein essay begins w/ housing-NIMBYism and then targets retrograde environmental-review statutes that "make it impossible to build green infrastructure at the speed we need." Next case study should be NYC #congestionpricing: 1/2
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No, @NYCMayor can't afford to piss off the NYPD b/c he doesn't have the political skills, inner fortitude, or authenticity to call the whistle on NYPD corruption. Period.
Zero tolerance would solve this: Misuse a placard, you’re fired. But @NYCMayor can’t afford to piss off the NYPD, whose begrudging buy-in on #VisionZero is needed.
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This excerpt from today's NYT Covid-19 section, about Scandinavians' embrace of winter, captures how I feel about cycling when temps fall below 40F. Why don't NYers / Americans ever hear this about cycling? It makes me want to distance myself from candidates who never bike.
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Having an "imposter" moment, seeing my name among "fathers & mothers" of #congestionpricing win. Pictured below are *my* biggest heroes: Vickrey, Cohen, Kheel, Ketcham. What a debt we owe them. And @NYDailyNews as well, for unflagging editorial support:
nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-e…
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I don't mind @ericadamsfornyc's imagery here at all. Mayors *are* shepherds in many ways. And as @MaraGay observed last week, Mayor Adams wasn't necessarily talking to you. Biblical uplift may well be better messaging than your and my wonky talk, esp'ly on Day 3 of his mayoralty.
Appreciate the sentiment but we're not sheep.
You can just say that these are the way most people get around. They're faster and more reliable than driving. And a city of the density of NYC does not function with private automobiles as the primary mode of travel.
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So glad you were on hand to shoot this heartwarming video. Wish you hadn't edited out Part II, where, w/ victim safely removed, the heroic onlookers tipped the SUV on its side and then completely upside down to ensure it couldn't again do harm -- at least not for awhile.
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