100%. Family + a kid's friend went to NYC the other day. $91 round trip. 😲 (Yet Lying Mike Lawler cries about the poor drivers having to pay the $9 Decongestion Pricing fee.)

"Her decision contradicts her long history of criticizing Cuomo. In April, she made headlines by suggesting that the 67-year-old’s “mental acuity is in decline” and arguing the city could not afford a “Joe Biden moment.”" www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

Free car parking means less money for frontline services. What is more important? Things like cancer care and treating sick children or car parking? No one is suggesting not driving, BUT car parking should be self financing. making a fair profit for improvements and feed into services is also good.

Yep - I'm in Wales where its all free parking at hospitals. The car parks are absolutely full to bursting from early morning. Staff cannot get a space, & the main Rd the hospital is on is at a standstill for hrs each day as ppl wait for 'their' free space. Awful idea.

Wed. June 18 at Wilson School, just over the JC border in Bayonne. Come out and scream bloody murder, because ultimately that’s what this entire highway expansion project is, the future cause of death via crashes, air pollution, heat, sedentary transportation, and all the other ills of car traffic.

Transportation leaders in the Assembly and Senate are all about car culture. An analysis.

Bike infrastructure isn't just for bikes

Results are in from the community-built pilot project: it’s fun as hell!

More people are questioning the cost of car ownership due to many factors including: -Paying an average of $120k over 10 years -Cars sitting unused roughly 95% of the time -Rising e-bike ownership -Most car trips are under 3 miles www.fastcompany.com/91341903/hou...

Damn straight! Albany, NY has TOO MUCH car parking. @timesunion.com's Chris Churchill latest opinion piece BRINGS IT, using @parkingreform.org's data. www.timesunion.com/churchill/ar...

New bike helmet cover! I’ve been eyeing this BikePretty hat for ages, finally decided to splurge for my birthday. Stylish summer rides are in my future! (This is the XL cover on my Thousand helmet. They don’t ship to Canada but I was able to order it from Green Street in Peterborough, ON)

Baraka lies, falsely claiming Fulop is lying about building the most affordable housing. It's true, Jersey City has built more affordable than anyone.

Baraka gives a shitty answer, blaming "the Kushners" and "Blackrock" for increasing housing costs.

Mikie Sherrill criticizes Mount Laurel and criticizes market rate development, extremely NIMBY answer.

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

the number one goal for everyone left-of-center for the next 6 weeks should be making sure Andrew Cuomo doesn’t become mayor of the largest city in the country. even if you don’t live in NYC, you probably have friends or family who do. please tell them how awful Cuomo.

Trump's DOT is pushing a truly baffling narrative that the Biden administration didn't build any infrastructure, and now they're cleaning up the mess. Wrote about why that's bullshit + why we need to pay attention to exactly what they're building, and what they're not.

How do Utrechters keep their bikes safe and accesible? One solution: the Fietshangar! These secure and durable 'fietstrommels' (bike lockers) offer a practical way to store bikes in dense urban areas. That’s why you’ll spot Fietshangars all over Gemeente Utrecht and Rotterdam.

Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred. Rochester, 1953: 11 days after the first segment of the Inner Loop expressway opened, police began blaring reprimands from the loudspeaker of their new Safety Education Car. Their amplified orders were directly primarily at pedestrians. ...

A long term solution to the US transit funding crisis probably lies in capturing the value that transit creates: the increase in local land value around frequent service. That's the key to delivering both transit and dense housing nearby. Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.

What this tells me is that the deliveristas hard won victories will be under threat if Cuomo wins.

Definitely. Recidivist reckless drivers should have their car crushed before they injure or kill someone. #CrushCarsNotPeople

My hot tip for anyone who wants to build community but doesn't know how: Plant raspberry bushes near the sidewalk/street.

Not really attracted by SUV commercials that show the vroom vroom machines destroying natural habitats.

A Republican-controlled state succeeding at housing production & economic growth allows many people to overlook heinous social policies and support Republicans in the same way a Dem-controlled state like NY struggling at housing & econ growth allows many people to overlook good social policies

The best part of getting around on foot is every now and again you get stopped in your tracks and are forced to take in the beauty around you 12 3-bedroom homes nestled together around a shared courtyard welcoming you in. Built in 1928, this type of housing has been made illegal in nearly all of CT

"The process is being rushed." Yes, it's only been under consideration for five years now. Probably needs another five before we start thinking about it some more.

Cannot emphasize enough that the Hartford Parking Authority PUBLICLY ADMITS that a *single* business complaint led a few members on the Hartford City Council to illegally suspend bike lane enforcement for a year. That isn’t even in question! The only question is whether it’s covered up.

Uptown is Dead: we're moving our pedestrian fair to the Bachman's parking lot, the newly pedestrianized Hennepin Ave is too hostile. Uptown is Alive: boy with a dream invites a nation to walk the streets and gaze upon our neighborhood cats. events.humanitix.com/wedge-live-c...

Uptown is Dead: nobody comes here, there's no place to park. Uptown is Alive: Lady plants a ton of flowers in her yard, creates more all-day foot traffic than the genius brains at the Uptown Association could ever imagine.

One of the most frustrating things about US car culture is that there’s no “opt-out.” Even if you choose to live car-free in a dense city, not only will you have other people’s noisy vehicles polluting your streets, but drivers will also demand access to *every last space.* A 🧵 on CT car culture/

When self proclaimed environmentalists refer to taxis as public transportation, you know they are missing something fundamental. Hint: it's about the scarcity of space in cities in the need to use that space efficiently.

I switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo and it has improved my searches dramatically. No more weird ads instead of results, no more Google mind reading. It's a small settings change in Chrome or Firefox, nothing to download.

Take whoever is in charge if BART wayfinding and have them ride the JR all day. Unbelievable how a Japanese company does better wayfinding in English than an American transit agency

Unfortunately, much of the Farmington Canal Trail is closed before sunrise and after sunset, making it virtually impossible to be of use for most commutes.

It’s incredible to see NH connect trails. These multi-town trails, like Farmington Canal Trail or smaller ones like the Pequonnock Trail near me, can be used for recreation *and* commutes. Stitching our state back together one bit at a time (and clawing it back from car infrastructure)

That’s worse service than the SIR on weekends. NJ should really think about having the MTA run the PATH as NYCT’s C Division. Get it into an organization with a culture of moving people 24/7 and out of this commuter rail mindset.

About the trade deal opening the UK to bioethanol... a terrible, destructive use of land #ClimateEmergency www.reuters.com/business/env...

There was a fire that destroyed a property caused by an electric vehicle. But because it was a car not a cycle there's no hysteria for banning electric cars from premises or public spaces. Even the media treat it as just another motor vehicle fire & most don't even mention it's an EV.

Very exciting to see the bikeway getting built along Central!

You don’t need millions to build safer streets today. Just reclaim one of the many car lanes and reallocate it for people utilizing active transportation.

Look it’s easy to see why Trumbull NIMBYs are so hell-bent on blocking apartments near our center When you’ve achieved this level of beauty, anything new risks ruining it

Not just Kempton, but Hamill, Breslin, Dwyer

Every morning when I wake I sleepily reach for my phone to check BlueSky, and this wonderful fuzzy creature knocks the phone out of my hand and looks at me like this:

Eric Adams documents are unsealed gothamist.com/news/a-trove...

I know time makes it feel like this isn’t enough to rock the boat, but this is absolutely unacceptable conduct for a Mayor of NYC and Gov Hochul should suspend him immediately.

Our kids will be attending a summer program. We received this welcome letter today. I replied, thanking them for the info, sharing how excited the kids are for the program &… asking if we’re allowed to walk/bike/take transit + if there are any specific directions for those modes. 1/2

People. Watch every second of this. Pause frequently to catch every morsel... 😂