What are you doing on a fine Monday Evening? Are you also converting PDF pages to CSV? oh the life of data analysis

Blocked bike lane? Not to worry, NYPD used discretion. (Voicemail transcript; RE: a vehicle on Central Park West was backed completely into the bike lane yesterday morning)

Bike lane with low traffic is often considered unnecessary and underutilized. Car lane with low traffic is considered luxurious.

The choice of someone that loves the city - so he won’t be in Times Square at midnight?

Most bike lanes in “ok” shape - but my wife disagrees. This is why there is a gender difference in cycling. Infrastructure and maintenance matter.

Ahh magically now vehicle has Illinois temp tags.

Who got some good snow pictures this weekend?

Cookie decorating, with puns. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Why should you vote for Lindsey (and up to 4 other good candidates)? Lindsey has the world’s best explainer on RCV.

Urbanism is really about being able to yell stuff at people from the comfort of your home instead of your car.

Lindsey would be a strong urban progressive for council district 3 and I will happily vote for her.

I don’t know how I missed this, but every tech person should get this instinctively. What do we do when network traffic is overwhelming our systems? We block the source. Shouldn’t cities do the same?

You tell me. Can you see NY registration and inspection stickers in the windshield or is it a Ghost Car? 311-25707224

“Plate and sticker don’t match” NY registration on windshield (now expired) - no license plates - and NJ plate in the window. Vehicle has 2 years of similar tickets ($2k all paid). Why can’t we just tow this ghost vehicle? 311-25701821 summons issued.

It’s been 5 years since I built this mini site documenting NYC’s 5.3 million parking spaces in more detail than ever done before. Encouraging to see the case for metering more parking in the NYT. toomanycars.nyc

Hive mind: What are people's thoughts on @fourthwall.com or @bigcartel.com versus Shopify? We've been thinking of moving The War on Cars merch store away from Shopify and I'm curious what other creators think of different platforms.

Extortion is illegal and also the power of the purse rests with Congress - the same Congress needs to start impeaching cabinet members that act this way.

"70MALE" on a "Law Enforcement Memorial" NJ plate

Continuing my campaign against illegal covered license plates. 311-25691945 “summons issued”

"During the week of Dec 15th this data will be unavailable" yeah... so about that... 🕰️

NYPD closed this out in 7 minutes, but I guess vehicle was gone (it was occupied when I reported it, covered plates and all). 311-25686675 (Though I realized my narrative said 10th Ave when this is 11th Ave 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Because I don't have a car, I payed an arbitrary 31% surcharge on tolls when I rented a vehicle I don't mind tolls - but junk fees like this end up encouraging car ownership

ahh yes, let's not create fair and consistent consequences for republicans because it might spill into next year. (to say nothing about how the ethics committee Ayala is on already dragged this out for 26 months w/o action)

Get yourself some bar mitts to keep the hands warm and go for a ride. Cold but nice out there

On the one hand today’s pair of CitiBike rides marked 86 straight weeks of rides I recorded on Strava, and my 3,000th CitiBike ride. On the other hand it was nice 42°F when I left and took a hoodie, but an absolute chill with “feels like” 18°F where I was way under dressed for a bike ride

Impeachment Articles against cabinet members are they way to start restoring justice - If there isn't political appetite to impeach trump yet - getting cabinet members to start shaping up can help with that!

DOT finally won this skirmish in @thewaroncars.bsky.social on 83rd st after installing flex posts *twice* and adding something a bit heavier that keeps drivers at bay.

Two cruisers made it down 9th Avenue to 46th St. in the bike lane in moments, then stuck in traffic on 46th St. Imagine if there was a bike lane on 46th they could use. Bike lanes speed emergency response

With only *some* bus lanes having automated enforcement, data shows drivers are slowly changing behavior after 1,200,000 summonses for double parking or parking in a bus-only lane.

I grew up here. The only reason to build a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge would be to build a high speed rail from DC to Ocean City with a stop in Annapolis and Kent Island.

Here I am trying to figure out why I'm not getting data back from the 311 Service Request database in open data.... Finally found a note that OTI is splitting this 40M record dataset into a historical (2010-2019) and a current dataset opendata.cityofnewyork.us/311-service-...

We are at the age where we are just starting to see bad highway projects canceled.

Hey @chiosse.bsky.social if DCWP is unprepared to enforce - will consider allowing renters to go after double the fee in small claims court? hellgatenyc.com/fare-act-6-m...

ok... so the takeaway is no Friday data posts?

Exempt for just 2 years in sub-32-degree and over 82-degree weather; has requirements for electrification; must pay $500k in outstanding idling fines. Tough call but I think the electrification concessions make this a win.

A Friday data pop quiz. These images show counts of injuries to Pedestrians, Cyclists, Motorists on NYC Streets for the past 13 years. Can you tell which is which?

🚲 DOT Bike Lane Tracker Updates Now shows: • Which agency maintains each greenway segment • Cross streets for new bike lanes

I have opened many DOT work orders this way and every time I think “has a driver of a vehicle ever done this for walk signal?” Pretty sure not.

ahh - that's why @intro.nyc isn't updating. Any of my followers on the tech team in the NYC Council that can fix the EventItems API?

something something Emoluments Clause something something www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's me. I'm the target audience for this @hellgatenyc.com post along with @illegal53nyc.bsky.social It's time for automated over-length-limit enforcement, followed by automated truck route enforcement. hellgatenyc.com/truck-routes...

Empty words from an individual that could have brought a resolution to have Eric Adams removed from office - but instead she was one of the very last council members to even call for him to resign. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. You enabled corruption to stay in power.

Still reporting cars on this sidewalk. 311-25624582

Still no 10th Ave protected bike lane on this block. Marking season is now over. This thread is 2yrs old.

Good to see planters installed in pedestrian islands on 10th Ave. in Chelsea/Hudson Yards

Non-commercial vehicle parked for multiple days in a commercial metered zone. didn’t get ticketed this morning 311-25603784 (though I think they told the guy to move it) but summonsed now (from what I overheard) 311-25612923 In 2 days why didn’t NYPD Traffic address this on their own?

We desperately need NEPA reform (National Environmental Policy Act) - but this article doesn't provide any substance to evaluate if this is good or bad reform. sigh.

Is “a liberal moderate” a euphemism for “former republican” now?

This whole "you should go back to X because the right is self-radicalizing even more without liberals to fight" is a facile argument that doesn't hold up to one second of scrutiny.