JarekFA

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#BikeNYC Married father of 2 living in Brooklyn. I’m not a “cyclist” - we just use cargo e-bikes instead of cars since it’s much more convenient to get around with kids.

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Reposting again because it's a great idea, and also they should be openly contemptuous of the White House press corps when they do it. Like they should have Harris be the main speaker and write so it repeatedly sounds like she's *about* to announce Biden's resignation, but then never does.

Say you're ready to make a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT and will be joined by VP Harris. Brag about all the bridges your infrastructure law has built for 10 minutes and then say the announcement is you're denying Trump security briefings because he's a convicted felon.

I’m going to try to catch this presentation, free webinar at 2pm tomorrow www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/driv...

When Driving Is Not An Optionwww.nytransitmuseum.org Disability advocate Anna Zivarts will discuss the value of transit planning that prioritizes nondrivers.

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"Currently, all American high-speed rail plans should be treated as case studies of what to avoid." pedestrianobservations.com/2024/07/09/r...

Reports on High-Speed Rail and the Northeast Corridorpedestrianobservations.com Two reports that I've collaborated on are out now, one about high-speed rail planning for Marron and one about Northeast Corridor maintenance for ETA. A third piece is out, not by me but by Nolan Hick...

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The latest drone footage from Tesla's Texas "Gigafactory" has all the old familiar hits: multiple uncontrolled fluid leaks (possibly environmental violations), piles of parts staged outdoors in the elements, and an End Of Line "hospital" for especially janky Cybertrucks youtu.be/1sjFH4qeHk0

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One you realize how much NYC of all places goes out of its way to try to not inconvenience car owners in any way shape or form, you can’t help but notice it everywhere

Saw my first cyber truck in the wild. It was illegally standing in a bus stop on Chambers street with NJ paper plates. Chambers st is a perpetually jammed bus route in the AM and would benefit huge from CP. But it’s electric! And weighs several tons!

What’s the German word for when you leave Oma’s bike friendly city and have to re-acquaint yourself with NYC/Brooklyn streets on bike?

Excited to bike to Amersfoort from Utrecht with the kids today. Perfect weather day in Holland. www.provincie-utrecht.nl/onderwerpen/...

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Another vulnerable street user is dead because we prioritize driver convenience, which gets reflected in overly engineered negligently designed bike infra (everything is bespoke, few cookie cutters). Narrow two way bike lanes are unsafe. I hope the family sues. trib.al/tdQsKGa

Woman dies after bicyclist collides with e-bike in Brooklyn bike lanetrib.al Aihong Qu, 48, died at the hospital three days after the crash inside a Brooklyn bike lane left her with a head injury.

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Sharp Michael Kimmelman: "When such projects work out, there is little accounting for the public costs of this process, notwithstanding that accountability was the original, driving argument behind expanding the regulatory system and participatory rules." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

Neighbors Fight Affordable Housing, but Need Libraries. Can’t We Make a Deal?www.nytimes.com An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.

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To be clear, I am paying to go to CUNY so I can get a Masters in Urban Studies and hopefully work for gov or a non profit or a labor union - instead of my well paying private sector job which I hate. My reward for this is for Hochul to tell me to kick rocks.

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The shuttle to take New Yorkers to the beach was so crowded that hundreds of people were left on the platform. This is what the city will look like more and more without congestion pricing funding the MTA.

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My article in Vital City is out, analyzing the MTA 2020-4 capital program and what is going to happen to it and future programs without the congestion pricing revenue. Very little of the program is discretionary. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/wit...

Vital City | Without Congestion Pricing, a Hollowed-Out Subway Capital Planwww.vitalcitynyc.org What happens to maintenance and expansion if these billions fail to flow

“Our society worked perfectly well with traffic cops enforcing the law.”

I do not have an expectation of privacy. I also think that government surveillance is, a priori, bad. It should only be used where the benefit is very high. Traffic laws are not one of them. Our society worked perfectly well with traffic cops enforcing the law. Cameras are a profit making tool.

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I love how they treat him like a precocious toddler who might create a classic sitcom comedy moment by sticking his head through the stair spindles or eating an entire chocolate cake with his bare hands rather than the feral hyena with tapeworm diarrhea let loose in a preschool that he is

The political press we need: hounding trump & republicans endlessly about his felony convictions, his history of sexual violence, and his attempts to overthrow the government The political press we have:

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I worked on a reality TV pilot about the wives of NYC cops, cutting casting reels. They asked most of the potential cast members about PBA cards and one of them said she had been pulled over 60 times over the last few years (but never got a ticket). 60!

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Look it's impossible to capture the paper of record's approach and priorities with the placement of only two headl--

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Here's the most in-depth legal analysis of the congestion-pricing situation I've seen, by NYU law prof Rick Hills: "As a matter of constitutional principle, it is perverse to construe a federal statute to give governors the power to shut down state law."

PrawfsBlawg: Can Governor Hochul Use Federal Law to Stall New York’s Congestion Pricing Program?prawfsblawg.blogs.com

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"Excess traffic congestion costs the city over $20 billion a year. And that's a combination of lost productivity, increased fuel costs, and impacts on the environment and health," Wylde said. Congestion "in general has been very expensive, far more expensive than the congestion pricing tool."

New York's governor ordered the MTA to kill congestion pricing. What now?www.bondbuyer.com Her abrupt suspension of the tolling plan for Lower Manhattan leaves a $15 billion hole in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital budget.

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this lede demonstrates why you have to read @davecolon.bsky.social on congestion pricing nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/06/t...

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This is how the NYT covered that Trump rally where he ranted about electric boats and sharks.

In Las Vegas, Trump Appeals to Local Workers and Avoids Talk of Convictionwww.nytimes.com At a rally on Sunday, former President Donald J. Trump promised to end taxes on tips for hospitality workers in a speech otherwise filled with familiar refrains.

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Let me know what diner she’s at Monday, so I can hold a sign with this printed on it over her head.

Hochul says when she goes back to a diner Monday morning, people will be thanking her

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if you can't get a hold of Hochul, take a minute to dial up Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and yell at them too.

For those wondering: It’s currently a 20-minute hold time at Gov. Hochul’s office if you want to call and tell a human being how embarrassing her last-minute effort to kill congestion pricing is.

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When you've lost Long Island's biggest newspaper, you know you've made a catastrophically bad political decision.

Hochul wrong to derail Manhattan tolling planwww.newsday.com How will the MTA now fund its current and future capital programs?

The Cars Always Win, By Sarah Laskow www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The Cars Always Winwww.theatlantic.com New York’s stalled congestion-pricing plan was a rare chance to try something different in American transportation.