Me: *Engages cafe lock Café lock: *clink Me: Seriously?!
🚲Bike JC🗽
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We work to make Jersey City streets safe and welcoming, promoting bike lane creation, education, and group rides. We are bicyclists, commuters, parents, planners, and advocates for the full potential of Jersey City. https://bikejc.org/donate
“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth
I had the chance to spend the day with Cycling Without Age Vancouver. It would be an understatement to say I was moved. @cyclingwithoutage.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-e...
The Bike That Makes Everyone’s Day
YouTube video by Nic Laporte
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Beginning in the early 1960s, Japan strove to protect children’s safe and independent mobility, especially on the journey to and from school. Its techniques, which have been sociotechnically inventive, include the walking school bus. ...
Jersey City: Free light bike repair and tune-ups now till 9:00 pm at Arlington Park for National Night Out! Come on out!
A new housing development under construction in the Netherlands The cycle infrastructure is already in place, complete with junctions ready to connect to future homes, along with dedicated bus lanes Active and sustainable travel is planned from the very beginning, not bolted on as an afterthought
It’s much the same in Alberta. Police and traffic safety orgs have been doubling and tripling down on PSAs about speed limits since the province banned speed cameras. Crashes and fatalities are up, meanwhile the government’s priorities are increasing highway speed limits and removing bike lanes.
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · yesterdayA story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
My office was sent this video of masked ICE agents grabbing someone off the street on 2nd St between Erie St. & Jersey Ave. in Ward E. We have also been made aware of additional ICE sightings and abductions in Jersey City today, and have alerted Public Safety. ICE may be targeting delivery cyclists.
I strongly condemn these tactics, meant to instill fear. If you have any more information, please reach out to our office at 201-547-5283 or GPerez@JCNJ.org. Neighbors have held onto his bike in a safe location so if he has a successful case and is released, he can get it back.
Please stay safe. To report an ICE sighting, call the DIRE hotline at (888) 347-3767. Some of the vehicles ICE is known to be using include: Red Jeep, plates U34SZY Grey Dodge, plates W31KCJ Black Nissan Pathfinder, plates W51UWS
This is tonight! Come say hi and get your bike fixed. 6 pm to 9pm at Arlington Park in Jersey City, NJ!
🚲Bike JC🗽@bikejc.org · 4d agoFree bike repairs at National Night Out! Join Bike JC and Volition Ride Co. at Arlington Park this Tuesday, Aug 4 for National Night Out! Arlington Park Tuesday, August 4 6pm to 9pm See you there!
Utrecht continues to update its city so that people can comfortably & safely bike side-by-side. You'll see people biking two abreast as parents put a reassuring hand on their kid's back, or when one friend on an e-bike gives a boost to their slower friend, or sometimes, just an affectionate touch.
Hand on shoulder — Cathy Tuttle Watercolor Postcards
PDA is rare in the Netherlands, but biking side by side is often an opportunity for friends to touch, out of affection, or perhaps if they need a little energy boost on their bikes. Utrecht continue...
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Free bike repairs at National Night Out! Join Bike JC and Volition Ride Co. at Arlington Park this Tuesday, Aug 4 for National Night Out! Arlington Park Tuesday, August 4 6pm to 9pm See you there!
"That’s it for Jersey,” said one Queens resident without a driver’s license. “We’re just not going to go to Montclair one day, we’re not going to go to the Palisades, because we can’t use our e-bikes.”
Out-of-state e-bike riders avoiding NJ because of new law
New Jersey's new e-bike law requires registration - even for those from out of state who want to ride their e-bikes here. That's a turnoff for some.
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remarkable how it's consensus within all realms of transportation academic/professional/political pundit spaces that transit projects cost too much and how rarely it's coupled with "we spend orders of magnitude more on highways which also suffer from exorbitant cost overruns and consultant grift"
Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · last wk.There's some truth here: Transit projects cost too much and the urban transportation market is getting more competitive. Withholding transit grant money, as the Trump admin is doing, addresses neither of those things, of course. But what would help? t.co/cZmiMFc6yf
The e-bike registration law is dumb for many reasons, but one of them is that if this is the hassle people have to go through to register something that puts around at 20mph, then what incentive is there to *not* get a 40mph rocket? Not my thing personally, but some people will go that route now.
Colleen Wilson@colleenonthescene.bsky.social · last wk.“I’ll be damned if I’m paying the State of New Jersey again, I paid it six years ago.” NJ e-bike riders livid over double sales taxing from MVC, which is now offering refunds. More on that, other issues coming up at MVC and more unanswered questions. [new post with corrected link]
Killing a famous historian through reckless driving and then using your political advocacy to advocate against protected bike lanes is certainly a choice.
BREAKING: The rider of an illegal motor bike was killed on Wednesday morning on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan outside of the protected bike lane that conveys cyclists northbound from the Brooklyn Bridge path. buff.ly/HPUbCzA
E-Moto Rider Killed on Centre Street in Heart of Civic Manhattan - Streetsblog New York City
The rider of a Deepower e-moto — an illegal electric bike — was in a pool of blood just north of Chambers Street.
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CORRECT LINK HERE ⬇️
Did you pay sales tax again at MVC for your e-bike? Apply for a refund
New Jersey's new e-bike law is in full effect, but questions about its implementation continue unabated as lawmakers decline comment.
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Colleen Wilson@colleenonthescene.bsky.social · last wk.“I’ll be damned if I’m paying the State of New Jersey again, I paid it six years ago.” NJ e-bike riders livid over double sales taxing from MVC, which is now offering refunds. More on that, other issues coming up at MVC and more unanswered questions.
“I’ll be damned if I’m paying the State of New Jersey again, I paid it six years ago.” NJ e-bike riders livid over double sales taxing from MVC, which is now offering refunds. More on that, other issues coming up at MVC and more unanswered questions.
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Ex post facto sales tax, yet another way @SenPresScutari is about to k*ll people, by making e-bikes harder to own and operate than the exponentially more dangerous cars they’ve been replacing. Call him now and tell him to support a law in line with other states: (732) 827-7480
Colleen Wilson@colleenonthescene.bsky.social · last wk.“I’ll be damned if I’m paying the State of New Jersey again, I paid it six years ago.” NJ e-bike riders livid over double sales taxing from MVC, which is now offering refunds. More on that, other issues coming up at MVC and more unanswered questions.
Cable cars/gondolas are often seen as an ineffective gimmick just for tourists. But they do fill a genuine transport niche in urban places with rough cliffs and ridges—like the Palisades in Hudson County. We should build some here.
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · last wk.Cable cars: Not just for ski vacations. In La Paz, Medellín, and a half dozen cities in #France, they're being used as robust forms of urban transit. I gave #Paris 's C1, Europe's newest (and longest) aerial tram, a test drive, and here's what I discovered: www.highspeed.blog/up-where-the...
Peter's work should be required reading for anyone who fights bike infrastructure by saying, "Our cities and streets were built for cars!"
Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · last wk.“‘Jaywalker’ was a tool in this reconstruction effort. It implied a new answer to the question ‘What is a street for?’ – an answer that carried a sting.”
There's a somewhat iconic panorama of my home town from 1908, and when folks tried to tell me streets were created for cars, I show them all the bikes in the shot, and no cars. "BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT," I am told.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.Peter's work should be required reading for anyone who fights bike infrastructure by saying, "Our cities and streets were built for cars!"
Bike infrastructure measures are now disappearing down the federal government’s memory hole. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...
DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites
Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.
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Join us for Jersey City's Pride Ride next month! Friday, August 14 Grove Street PATH Meet 7:30 pm / Roll 8:00 pm Free to ride. No registration required. Just show up and roll!
New episode, listen here: biketalk.org/2026/07/back...
Bike Talk - A radio show dedicated to the idea that for public and planetary health we need to prioritize public transportation by bikes
A radio show dedicated to the idea that for public and planetary health we need to prioritize public transportation by bikes
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I want you to know what I did with the £1.17 saddle from eBay
