One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

If I were President, I’d decorate the Oval by painting a giant mural of that famous painting of Lee surrendering to Grant, cyclorama style. A whole 360 degree immersion experience You have to crush the racists, not appease them.

"MTA data shows the average speed of the agency’s buses lingered around 8.3 mph this year, about the same as in 2021" @gothamist.com

Thought it was possible NYC would see its 1st year w under 200 traffic deaths, but 4 fatalities in past week dashed that They are way down this year & could still be a record low If you want to attribute to congestion pricing, at least look at the geography here and try to make the case:

enjoy Reggie Miller and Wout Van Aert doing trackstands www.instagram.com/reel/DSk2Y7r...

Begone! Depart! Go away!

The totally unmanaged streets of NYC This commercial street is largely vestigial alt-side parking, so the constant delivery traffic always ends up parking in the travel lanes

Reinvent Albany @cbcny.bsky.social @partnership4nyc.bsky.social @rpa.org and Transit Costs Project thank @governor.ny.gov for vetoing A4873/S4091, the bill that would have prohibited MTA from using one-person train operation (OPTO). See our statement: buff.ly/PI2zEAH

"ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to veto a controversial bill that would have required two operators aboard every subway train with more than two cars, sources told Streetsblog." W/Streetsblog's Man in Albany, Austin Jefferson -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/19/h...

I can't emphasize enough that every neighborhood should be strenuously asking for this because literally the only driving effect it has is to stop drivers from absolutely flooring it over short open stretches, which is unnecessary and dangerous. The average vehicle speeds in NYC are *slower* than 20

I would add doing more big avenues with bike-speed signal timing like 3rd Ave in Manhattan. This is just programming the signals & can be done in winter before painting/concrete season. Takes away any incentive for "speeding ebikes" & makes the whole street much safer

Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation. This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.

Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

OK!

We asked the experts, and they had a lot of ideas: "Tow some MTA workers' cars in Downtown Brooklyn as a statement!" hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Build it and they will change? After installing the Prospect Park West protected bike lane sidewalk riding dropped to 3 percent… “If your policy changes infrastructure, it will change culture” @jonorcutt.bsky.social in Life After Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Other than the weird journey of congestion pricing, Hochul has a good transit record (big no-drama capital program, additional resources for operating) AND we did ultimately get CP. It would be crazy to allow something this detrimental to take effect now

Vickie Paladino’s call to expel, sanction & denaturalize Muslims is vile, unconstitutional, and dangerous. This is blatant Islamophobia. Muslim New Yorkers belong here—full stop. Someone who promotes hate like this has no place on the City Council and must be censured immediately

This is vile. Councilwoman Paladino's attitude must be rejected by our city government, and has no place outside a white supremacist rally. How can someone claim to represent New Yorkers when they show such hatred toward a million of them?

The "greatest city in the world" utterly fails to deal with the ubiquitous delivery industry

Gov Hochul should veto S6815/A8292 – giving MTA workers an automatic defense for bus-lane violations meddles in NYC and MTA management and could encourage misuse of agency vehicles. buff.ly/P1MqL0D

Apparently the Governor has vetoed this, but w some "further study" provision

See my full Manhattan Community Safety Plan here. www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Some blocks of 9th Ave #bikeNYC look plowed.... others not so much.

If you had told me back in the day that in future I'd be represented by lawmakers at every level who totally get it on safe streets & NYC's potential for sustainable transportation I'd have been 😒 Thank you @sengonzalezny.bsky.social!

"If you’re in the abstract in a church basement" LOL Truly spoken like someone who's been there

Merry Dutch Christmas! 🚲🌲

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Your bike/scooter/whatever is electric⚡yet it has no lights Make it make sense!

Dunno about shutting down the neighborhood's only subway line on a holiday season weekend

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Public realm update for the week (Parks workers w placards in 2nd shot)

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Dusting in Manhattan yields immediate #sneckdowns

Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened. bsky.app/profile/fund...

Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide. www.eenews.net/articles/bus...

Doug Burgum lies that renewable energy is "worse for the planet, worse for the environment, and it drives up your electric prices"

Really good piece from @cmrestler.bsky.social on Adams squandering four years during which the BQE could’ve been shored up & subject to real visioning/long-term planning (You have to scroll down through Rodriguez‘ defensive piece and 4 paragraph bio) brooklyneagle.com/354771/opini...

A 22% drop in deadly fine particle air pollution in NYC after traffic congestion pricing is astonishing. Meanwhile, Trump‘s EPA has moved to kill a safer health standard for fine particles & reinstate an unsafe standard, & the House GOP votes today to take away Americans’ right to safe, clean air.

@davecolon.bsky.social: “MTA Still Won’t Embrace Open Gangway Subway Cars: The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.” — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/09/m...

DOT made this point in an affidavit but the judge missed or ignored it. The judge’s ruling also makes traffic safety into a random he-said/she-said fight that ignores DOT’s experience & data. We look forward to DOT appealing the decision ASAP

We’ve read the decision. According to the ruling, fire officials complained the 🚲 lane would make it tough to position a ladder truck But look at the street! With curb parking & subway structure overhead *you can’t get a ladder in there now* The new bike lane would allow that to work [more👇]

New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I wonder how many of the cars parked around NYPD precincts (both department and personal vehicles) are really being used for police work, and how many are just sort of littered about for very occasional use in these various petty grifts nypost.com/2025/12/06/u...

Drag him.