@nycspeakeradams.bsky.social you have an opportunity to save lives and cement your legacy while doing so. Not taking action to keep NYers safe is unacceptable!

Transportation Alternatives@transalt.org · 9mo ago

“Speaker Adams Is Ignoring the Most Prominent Street Safety Bill of Her Four-year Term”: Joint Statement from Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on Speaker Adams Removing Daylighting Bill from Final City Council Meeting Vote List

Daylighting is common sense! I don't know that so many diverse groups have ever been in agreement about something like this. @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social it is time to pass Intro 1138! @cmjuliewon.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/24/h...

Hundreds of Community Groups — From the Conservatives to the Socialists! — Demand Daylighting - Streetsblog New York City

Two hundred New York City groups joined calls to ban parking at corners in order to improve safety and visibility, also known as daylighting.

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Great piece about how projects like Court St in Brooklyn are good for cities: "it’s one of the best, most optimistic movements in urban development, one that can make cities cleaner, quieter, and more sustainable." @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmrestler.bsky.social www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Cities are booming with bikes — and getting safer and cleaner

Protected bike lanes are transforming cities worldwide, cutting crashes, cleaning air, and turning daily rides into real climate wins.

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“You can’t tell me a parking space at the corner of a street is worth a life.” Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.

If you like this change to the street, please let Brooklyn CB6 know by emailing info@bkcb6.org I'm on the board and we're already getting some cranky emails. The folks who are using this and benefit from it don't know they have to stand up for good things, so help us stand up for good things.

@galeabrewer.bsky.social's position on daylighting is becoming increasingly confusing. She now says her flip-flop isn't because of parking but for some other vague reason. Every intersection in her district has had an injury during her term. This is embarrassing. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/b...

'Bean-Counting Street Safety': Advocates Blast Gale Brewer's Daylighting Flip-Flop - Streetsblog New York City

The Upper West Side pol's inconsistent safety record is getting a second look from activists who once supported her.

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Approximately 75% of households on the Upper West Side are car-free. Plus, 13,000 parking spaces in a neighborhood that's home to about 214,000 residents is nothing. This is an elected official listening to a loud and entitled minority and prioritizing the storage of private cars over public safety.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 11mo ago

UWS Council Member Gale Brewer changed her mind on the daylighting bill after DOT officials projected that the street safety initiatives would remove 13,000 parking spaces per district — double the 6,500 avg. spots that DOT officials previously estimated under oath in April.

This is Gale Brewer basically saying we should not implement known proven safety measures until at least one person is injured in an avoidable crash. Ghoulish really.

Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."

Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."

All of @galeabrewer.bsky.social's community boards support daylighting as do all other elected officials representing the district. This flip-flop — siding against her community for vague/undisclosed reasons — is a huge blemish on her public service record and will make all NYers less safe.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 11mo ago

UWS Council Member Gale Brewer changed her mind on the daylighting bill after DOT officials projected that the street safety initiatives would remove 13,000 parking spaces per district — double the 6,500 avg. spots that DOT officials previously estimated under oath in April.

The tools exist to fix dangerous conditions outside school streets. Virtually overnight, we can: - Reduce speed limits outside schools - Make universal daylighting the law All eyes on you @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 12mo ago

We've all long noticed the increase in traffic that follows the opening of New York City's public schools, but does the city's crash data reflect whether the general chaos is accompanied by actual carnage on the streets? The answer: Yes. buff.ly/hil7tyQ

Advocates asked Cuomo to sign the pledge to Make McGuinness Safe before the primary, which is more than enough time to "review the plan." These are not the words of a candidate that is serious about street safety. www.brooklynpaper.com/demand-mcgui...

Montreal has done incredible work iterating and expanding pedestrianization programs that were born out of the pandemic, now making them permanent. Sadly, NYC has done the opposite — our pedestrianization programs are a glimmer of what they were in 2021. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stretch of Ste-Catherine Street East to become pedestrian-only year-round | CBC News

The City of Montreal announced Friday their "ambitious" plans to transform a portion of Ste-Catherine Street East into a pedestrian road year-round, with redevelopment work starting in fall 2026.

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This is really a surreal, insane thing to see. Advocates put so much into trying to make McGuinness safe, and tolerated condescension and self-righteousness from Eric Adams and Ingrid Lewis-Martin at every turn. Turns out, they were being bribed the whole time!

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · last yr.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin and Gina and Tony Argento's names might sound familiar. In this look at Adams's failure to create bus lanes, all three names show up around the McGuinness Boulevard project, which the Argentos opposed.

This kind of treatment can be a model for New York — to create permeable surfaces, reduce flooding and combined sewer overflow, and ultimately make our waterways clean and swimmable. But we need to secure the space on our streets to do it!

Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms@streetfilms.bsky.social · last yr.

Before/after Montreal mid-block greening/bioswale/traffic calming! I took a photo of this gorgeous green implementation cause I saw it the 2 previous blocks. Then as if the Montreal Street Gods wanted to take care of me the following block they said, “Oh Mr. Streetfilms here’s how we dig them up!”

This crash in Astoria this morning killed 3, including 2 pedestrians. Everyone can agree, the status quo on our streets is unacceptable. We need to embrace real systemic and structural changes to keep pedestrians safe. @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social what will you do? abc7ny.com/post/astoria...

3 dead after car crashes into food truck, pedestrians in Astoria

Police say a driver tried to avoid another car making a U-turn, then lost control and crashed into a food truck and pedestrians.

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Because @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ran a people-powered campaign/is not beholden to special interests, he can truly advance policy and infra solutions that make streets safe and improve transit — this is a generational opportunity to transform our urban landscape nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/26/h...

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Mayor Adams and Ydanis Rodriguez from ripping up a piece of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

The NY Times non-endorsement and its “eh, Brad’s fine but not super awesome and tough like the big ol’ sex pest” take looks worse with each passing moment.

Absolutely horrifying how many human lives our mayor is willing to put at risk to score political points.

Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · last yr.

Context: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n... (at a recent town hall in Hasidic Williamsburg, much of the discussion was about how much folks wanted the bike lane removed)

Something a lot of people who don't cover transportation politics don't know is that there's a small number of deeply unwell guys who show up to aggressively heckle at transit/safe streets events and make content of it. It's breaking containment now, which is uh, cool

I'm not sure that Citizens Union can continue to call itself a good government group.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · last yr.

New: The Citizens Union, one of NYC's oldest good government groups, is supporting Andrew Cuomo as part of its 2025 mayoral race endorsement slate — even though the organization demanded he be removed as governor in 2021 over sexual misconduct accusations. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/03/c...

Kudos to @dmey.bsky.social for jumping in the Open Streets beat to report Cuomo and @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social don't know if they support Open Streets. The official position of mayoral candidates shouldn't be "I don't know." Not indicative of good leadership. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/07/e...

Eric Adams Punts the Future of Open Streets to the Next Mayor - Streetsblog New York City

The city's car-free open streets are funded for just one more year under Mayor Adams's proposed budget. But Cuomo looms.

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This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City

Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.

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Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)

I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. Bike Brooklyn! is a zine I made that touches on everything I wish I knew when I started biking in Brooklyn: lizdenys.com/bikebk/

Liz Denys - Bike Brooklyn!

Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I wish I knew when I started biking in Brooklyn. A lot of this information can be found in other resources, but I wanted to collect it in...

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Testimony from @ammorano.bsky.social, co-chair of @tabk.bsky.social:

For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."

A week or so ago this number was only $10k. What changed? This is an obvious political lie by the agency to kneecap Intro 1138.

Kevin Duggan@kevinduggan.bsky.social · last yr.

Daylighting all 40k intersections in NYC with hard infrastructure would cost around $3 billion, DOT Deputy Commissioner Beaton claims. Back of the envelope, if that daylights two of eight corners of each average intersection with solid infrastructure, that breaks down to $37,500 per corner.

NYC DOT: "While every modern city in the world can do this, we simply can't because it is impossible."

Kevin Duggan@kevinduggan.bsky.social · last yr.

Second point on DOT's $3bn cost estimate for hardened daylighting citywide. Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla said at a rally earlier that his city put in a few plastic bollards for about $100 per location. For two corners at each of the city's 40k intersection that comes to around $8 million.