i guess it's possible for social media to create an age gate - surprise surprise. these companies are not going to act without regulation. my personal preference is to ban algorithm use and advertising to kids under 16. 👏 for australia! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Here is an article about widening a highway that doesn't get to the fact that RESEARCH UNIFORMLY SHOWS THAT HIGHWAY WIDENING DOESN'T WORK until paragraph 19. The argument in favor of highway widening appears in paragraphs 15, 16, and 17, from a trucking industry spokesman, without supporting data.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

"The MTA has a tool to address the problem, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has so far opted not to use it. State law allows the agency to increase the price of its daily congestion tolls by 25% on 'Gridlock Alert' days, when the city transportation department essentially declares a traffic emergency."

The majority of work days in December are Gridlock Alert Days. Governor Hochul could get rid of holiday traffic, simply by telling the MTA to use this power they already have. Instead, she's leaving commuters stuck in terrible traffic. Change her mind: (518) 474-8390

There were 4,603,859 subway rides on Wednesday, which is a new post-pandemic record. Slowly, we’re approaching 4,697,122 rides from March 11, 2020 which was the last moment 4.6 million people rode the subway before things fell off a cliff

Rochester, NY, before-and-after the first phase of the Inner Loop Removal project in 2014-17, which started the process of reconnecting the neighborhoods the highway had long separated from Downtown. More info: www.segregationbydesign.com/rochester-ny...

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Winter makes a city’s transportation priorities extra obvious: Bikelane: nonexistent on this street Sidewalk: covered in snow with a caregiver getting a major workout pushing a stroller through Street: perfectly cleared for drivers We can and should do better @minneapolismn.gov .

I mean - New York City should be seeing improvement not just "no change" - Congestion Pricing needs to increase, in order to stave off the increase of driving everywhere else. This is a good first step, but we need to be bolder if we want to see real improvement. London improved by 10% since 2024.

Congratulations to James Solomon, the next Mayor of Jersey City! People in NJ are tired of corruption, tired of greed, and tired of politics as an exclusive club for the well-off & well-connected. This is the rise of a new era defined by public servants who work for the people.

Breaking News: James Solomon has defeated the former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey in Jersey City’s mayoral race.

McSkeevey is our Cuomo. he's everything wrong with NJ politics. please Jersey city go vote Tuesday.

This just in: We can vote tomorrow (Sunday) in person! In all JC and Hoboken runoff elections. @bikehoboken.org @safestreetsjerseycity.org

What will it take for these people to do the same for human driven cars? 5 fatalities this month in Bergen County isn’t enough, a jeep driver driving into a Planet Fitness and killing a customer isn’t enough, or what about the drunk driver that killed that hockey player and his brother..

#JCcrashes JFK by NJCU. Driver takes an SUV up the sidewalk and crashes into the university gates: www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity...

A city with a few hundred robotaxis is cool and futuristic, but with 100,000+ it'll be gridlocked and dangerous. All the more reason for local leaders to adopt congestion pricing and automatic traffic enforcement ASAP.

What about Waymo? Did they spend a lot too?

The open access version of our paper is here, with our other work on transportation decarbonization and emerging tech: www.costasamaras.com/autonomous-v...

Waymo technology is cool, but cars is cars. If waymo is adding more single use and cheap trips = more congestion. The incentives are to drive more, and earn more without paying for labor. For dense urban areas, nothing will beat the efficiently of buses and trains. Nothing. It's just math.

Waymo privatized another public street: Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away. The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined. OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

Yep. NYC needs to move beyond paint and plastic to permanent, high-quality materials that are installed quickly.

Yellow crash attenuation barrels at the corner of County Road and NJ-Rte 1-9 in Croxton/Jersey City. Carbon ink and Ecoline markers on manilla card stock, 10”x8”. art.monospace.com #art #artSky #ecoline #carbonInk #penAndInk #urbanSketching #jerseyCity #newJersey

“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”

Majority of people who commute into NY from NJ do so by bus via the Lincoln Tunnel. Please don’t forget about these people @kim.senate.gov @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Lincoln Tunnel bus service has a bigger impact than the Raritan Valley line. Here are the buses with yearly ridership over 1m.

Good news, we are seeing a dramatic increase in ridership for the 9-Montgomery and the 6-Summit/Ocean. My suspicions were correct about the 9. I’ve noticed over the past year fuller buses. Maybe that will motivate NJ Transit to run some more buses at some point.

NJ Wish List Mega/Improbable: Kennedy Blvd Subway Mega/Possible: 7 train extension Moderate/Achievable: HBLR Northern Branch Simple/Affordable: Kennedy Blvd BRT

Source: Hoboken Curb Reimagined Foundations Report hdp-us-prod-app-kh-spp-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/9817/4611/56...

Drivers using the NJ Turnpike have seen an almost 50% total toll increase and those using Garden State Parkway, almost a 40% increase since 2020. www.nj.com/news/2025/11...

Bad infrastucture and SUVs/light trucks account for increase in pedestrian deaths; vehicles disproportionately hit Black and Latino peds on multi lane city roads: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

All along the French Riviera, cities are limiting cars, building pedestrian zones, and boosting transit and bikes. Most of their leaders come from the political right—not the left. In Bloomberg, I explored lessons from the Riviera about building urbanist support when conservatives are in charge.

😢 The end of an era. Our stalwart sponsors and partners in events, and indeed some of the people who helped found Bike JC 16 years ago next month.

NJ Turnpike Authority do not care about affordability for NJ, even though they are a public agency and report to the governor. We are being force fed an $11B highway widening in Hudson County, when instead we could fund NJ Transit or pay $$ back to taxpayers #turnpiketrap @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

I'm also hoping we can finally get our first low-traffic neighborhood (cough, Gowanus, cough) up and running under the new administration. We really need the new administration to move beyond just adding bike lanes and toward car-reduction strategies.

Thank you to all the volunteers from @bikejc.bsky.social for today’s memorial and freshening up the bike ghost memorials around town. We lost a child to traffic violence this year, and nothing was done about it and nothing has changed since. #WDoR2025

More from yesterday’s World Day of Remembrance observances in Jersey City, with our new or refreshed roadside memorials in the Western Slope, Journal Square, and Greenville. May we honor the memories of those lost to traffic violence by ending it. #WDoR2025 🕯️

Tomorrow night (Tuesday) in Jersey City another KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training.

Hudson County built a Protected Bike Lane, huge win! Hudson County has one of the lowest car ownership per household in the nation. Space and infrastructure for people to travel around the County safely with light rail, buses, bikes, and more is imperative! hudsoncountyview.com/op-ed-micro-...

New data shows that since @mayoroflondon.bsky.social launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen: 📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year tinyurl.com/j3475ua3

Yesterday we honored victims of traffic violence in Jersey City, NJ as part of the Word Day of Remembrance. Traffic violence in NJ has claimed more than 500 lives this year. These deaths are preventable. @familiesforsafestreets.org #WDOR2025 #SAFESTREETS

Jersey City and Hoboken want to ditch their run-offs for ranked-choice voting. What’s the difference and why are these towns pushing NJ to allow ranked-choice voting? www.voterchoicenj.org/jersey_city_...

The question you have to ask is if you value human life or you don’t. Build this thing, bankrupt the state, and destroy more people’s lives. Or do the right thing and cancel it right now @govmurphy.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

This Union is behind the Turnpike Expansion. They are the only constituency who showed up in support of the project at the "info sessions" and the community meeting. Jobs are important, but these workers deserve more than a poison pill, better jobs than worsening asthma and destroying communities.

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

If it's possible NJ should definitely do this. I have a hypothesis that east-west traffic is more aggressive and dangerous because of the lack of tolls. It probably also over encourages truck warehouses along those routes.

This shows that advocacy works! Organizing public transit riders to demand better service is a key factor in this progress. This is after an 18 month campaign, we're just getting started LFG!!!! actionnetwork.org/letters/port...

Paris cut car use by 45%, cleaned its air, made streets safer, & created vibrant public spaces. 🌇 NYC can do the same. Join our webinar on Wed, Nov 19 at 12 PM to learn proven strategies to reduce VMT. Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wghsTNRISuCG3xrs7hTqvA#/registration

Finally had a chance to reach this! It's full of transformative ideas that will drastically improve public transit in NJ. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social ends up building the $11B highway expansion, and there's no money for NJ Transit during her tenure, we won't forget that it was always a choice.

Celebrating this project is annoying, a shiny object. Instead they could have followed their capital plan to connect the PATH to the Airport, serving loads more travelers and employees. This would have improved a critical regional connection between the airport and Newark, Jersey City, and NYC.