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“Do we really expect our children to act like adults just so adults can act like children?”
Cycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York City
We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
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NYC public school students show, in great detail, that Mayor Mamdani doesn’t have to build a BQE bypass highway over the Brooklyn Bridge. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/09/f...
Friday Video: How Mamdani Can Avoid His BQE Bypass Boondoggle - Streetsblog New York City
The young activists of the Joint Transit Association have some concerns about Mayor Mamdani's plan to rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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Amazing content from an actual church. Watch the whole thing. www.instagram.com/reel/DeQLUDF...
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IMO: The real lesson here is that a trader’s strategy of landing one or two massive bets is not how government policy works.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d ago“.. A lot of people in the investment community had hoped he was the adult in the room,” said Stephen Myrow, a former Treasury official. Investors are “starting to see him as acting more and more like Trump…and that’s shaking confidence in him.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.
What to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election Day
New York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election.
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Second Ave. Sagas@2avesag.as · 4d agoThe Church that had to postpone an anti-vision zero “community” meeting a few years ago because a 9-year-old was killed by a truck driver the same week is at it again, this time protesting bus lane upgrades. www.instagram.com/p/DeHtgftlLi...
South Dakota has the highest state birth rate. I'm sure it's brimming over with transit maintenance needs & ideas for new service. Utah is highest in marriage - Trax & Frontrunner have a short window to crank out proposals!
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."
The Church that had to postpone an anti-vision zero “community” meeting a few years ago because a 9-year-old was killed by a truck driver the same week is at it again, this time protesting bus lane upgrades. www.instagram.com/p/DeHtgftlLi...
No one needs an extra year to sort public input into categories or themes & describe how the workable stuff is reflected in design options
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 5d agoThe notoriously intractable state Department of Transportation is slow-walking its plan to address urgent safety concerns along Manhattan’s treacherous West Side Highway. buff.ly/4xTsqyZ
You may sleep through the noise, but your body may still be responding to it. 🔗 https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/noise-can-harm-your-health-even-if-you-sleep-through-it/
Another reason to move quickly to pour concrete and demap streets. This is silly nonsense.
Kevin Duggan@kevinduggan.bsky.social · last wk.The organizers behind NYC's first pandemic-era open street that became a permanent plaza in northern Manhattan now want the Mamdani administration to downgrade it back to a car street with parking for most of the year, but other locals say not so fast. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/02/i...
Reinvent Albany joins 15 advocacy groups, including @envdefensefund.bsky.social, @nrdc.org, @nypirg.bsky.social, @partnership4nyc.bsky.social, and @tstc.bsky.social in a new amicus brief supporting the MTA’s congestion pricing program in Duffy v. MTA. Read the amicus brief here: buff.ly/wBwZzXY
Amicus Brief Supporting Congestion Pricing in Duffy v. MTA Lawsuit - Reinvent Albany
Reinvent Albany joined an amicus brief with 15 advocacy groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, NYPIRG, Partnership for New York City, and Tri-State…
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This line from Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer is rattling around in my head as I read the news this morning…
To quote Lando Calrissian, this deal is getting worse all the time. 10-ish years is certainly going to turn into longer, closing playgrounds and ruining local residents' lives, only to lock in the current design for generations. We need to think bigger. (And I get that this US DOT makes that hard.)
'Truck Flyover': Mamdani's BQE Bypass Will Pass Over Brooklyn Bridge - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Mamdani plans to run a temporary highway over the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge for at least a decade as the city rebuilds the BQE.
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"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”
NYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on Enforcement
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead.
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Janno Lieber warned today that the surface transportation bill in front of Congress (which sucks) could take $250 million a year away from the MTA's capital plan nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/30/m...
MTA Boss Warns GOP Bill Will Blow A Hole In Transit Budget - Streetsblog New York City
The Republican-controlled Congress's proposed federal surface transportation bill would cut a quarter billion dollars per year from the MTA.
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Great to see this state DOT-directed advocacy. Despite a few good projects here & there in NYC, NYSDOT is largely in a time warp in terms of policy & output (Still waiting on that study of the West Side Highway)
Streetsblog Empire State@streetsblognys.bsky.social · 2w ago21 New York walking and biking advocacy groups have asked NYSDOT to release the data behind its Active Transportation Strategic Plan, commit to dedicated staffing, and open a formal comment period before the plan is finalized this fall. empire.streetsblog.org/gov-hochuls-...
Thank you, President Trump, for making new rolling stock cost $1 billion more it should. We salute you for making the US' transit cost crisis even worse. 🫡
Well well well, citywide bus speeds have hit a four-year high nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/29/w...
Wheels Up: City Bus Speeds Hit Four-Year High Under Mayor Mamdani - Streetsblog New York City
Citywide bus speeds hit 8.5 mph in August, which is the quickest buses have moved through the city in four years
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I had the same question. The doors should not show as closed if this happens.
The LIRR Today@thelirrtoday.com · last wk.Very tragic and sad news... www.amny.com/news/brookly... Buy I disagree with the article characterizing this as a "freak accident". We spend billions every year to keep conductors on Subway trains to be an extra set of eyes to prevent tragedies exactly like this. What happened??
It turns out that a governing philosophy based entirely on owning the libs leads to some real sloppy work.
New York, let's do Broadway next. There are some good stretches here and there, such as through the Flatiron District, but there's a lot of street left to do.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2w agoThe countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised.
I can't wait for no one to believe the data that this is good for business and the city economy overall. I still can't believe that Times Square has cars driving through it, especially during the busiest times of the day....
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2w agoThe countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised.
Is the air too clean? Are you spending too little on gas? Boy, do I have a solution for you! bsky.app/profile/lega...
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w agoThe Trump administration on Monday finalized new lower vehicle fuel economy standards, in the latest effort to make it easier for automakers to sell gas-powered vehicles and to reverse a push by the Biden administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
This has been my personal issue for a while - though it's become more evident since I stopped blogging. Once-per-year updates on Penn Station Access or 2nd Ave. or OMNY or a multi-billion-dollar rolling stock plan just should not be acceptable, and Albany should do its own regular oversight here too
There’s an insane nihilism here right at the heart of modern conservative movement that is fundamentally removed from any sense of economic rationality
Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
A shrinking minority of Americans looks at Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and sees the fundamental issue as “how will people noticing this affect antisemitism in the U.S.? Nobody talk about it!” This point of view is parochial, narcissistic and shameful and thank god it’s going out of style
New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 2w agoEDITORIAL | NYC Mayor Mamdani needs to own his anti-Israel rhetoric fueling simmering antisemitism
US isn’t taking climate change seriously when it comes to transport policy Other countries are demonstrating that they can (1) mode shift toward transit, walk, bike; (2) electrify; (3) densify. US failing on all fronts. Result is that US emissions from transport aren’t falling as they should
The Penn Station project master agreement that had Janno Lieber so crabby did in fact contain every provision he raised an alarm about: lobbying for Amtrak's funding demands, opening up the lease, not having a say in final designs. FIRST in Streetsblog nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/25/r...
Revealed! Trump's Penn Station Contract Would Have Handcuffed MTA On Lease — And Let Duffy Say Whatever He Wants - Streetsblog New York City
The deal really was as bad as Janno Lieber said it was.
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@reinventalbany.bsky.social got hold of the "collaboration" agreement Amtrak has been pushing MTA to sign It asks MTA to give up leverage over station design/operations its current lease provides & wants NY State funding in the bargain There is still no design, cost or budget for the project
Trump’s Penn Station deal is bad for N.Y.
Thanks to the state Freedom of Information Law, we at Reinvent Albany got a copy of the Penn Station “collaboration agreement” Amtrak has been pushing the MTA to sign. As lifelong NYC transit advocate...
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