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Yinzer in Jersey City. Urban Planner. President of Bike JC.
#StreetsForPeople
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🚲Bike JC🗽
17 days ago
Bike JC stands in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors and those seeking refuge in Jersey City. We watched ICE’s activity in our city this week with horror when agents targeted hard-working people who use the 9th Street elevator to bring bikes between Hoboken and Jersey City Heights.
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Carl Quintanilla
27 days ago
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
@washingtonpost.com
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Turnpike Trap
28 days ago
It's the 9am peak on a weekday morning, and there is no congestion to be seen on the Newark Bay Bridge. There's the usual congestion at the Lincoln Tunnel. $6B for two new bridges is the wrong way to spend precious dollars. One bridge, not two, and we can invest billions in transit instead.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
30 days ago
Outgoing NJ governor Phil Murphy pardoned a killer driver on his last day in office. The driver was the son of a powerful South Jersey Democratic boss. That looks pretty corrupt to me. A killer hit-and-run driver, who stuck and killed a pedestrian.
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In one of his final acts, Murphy pardoned son of Democratic power broker
The driver, the son of a powerful attorney, was pardoned the same day he was found guilty in a fatal hit-and-run.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/01/murphy-pardons-son-of-democratic-power-broker-after-fatal-hit-and-run.html
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And the nation’s worst e-bike law to boot! Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 1 month ago
Yes, yes we do.
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Doug Gordon
about 1 month ago
New Jersey now has one of the worst, if not THE worst, e-bike laws in the country, requiring even people with pedal-assist bikes that top out at 18 mph to get the equivalent of motorcycle licenses.
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Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation - Insider NJ
Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation Posted on – 01/19/2026 Legislation Enacts Some of the Nation’s Toughest Regulations on E-Bikes TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy...
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/governor-murphy-signs-senate-president-scutaris-e-bike-safety-legislation/
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Upzone New Jersey 🏗️
about 1 month ago
Trainwreck. Murphy's second term was an unmitigated failure.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
about 1 month ago
F**k. He signed it. New Jersey now has the harshest regulations on e-bikes in the nation.
www.insidernj.com/press-releas...
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Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation - Insider NJ
Governor Murphy Signs Senate President Scutari’s E-Bike Safety Legislation Posted on – 01/19/2026 Legislation Enacts Some of the Nation’s Toughest Regulations on E-Bikes TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy...
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/governor-murphy-signs-senate-president-scutaris-e-bike-safety-legislation/
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Hudson County Complete Streets
about 1 month ago
👏👏👏 Excellent op-ed by Maya Pontón Aronoff: Murphy must veto anti-safety, anti-affordability, & anti-immigrant e-bike bill Will
@govmurphy.bsky.social
cap his last term, by signing the country's most punitive e-bike laws in the country? Tell Governor Murphy no: Call 609-292-6000 Text 732-605-5455
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Op-Ed: Murphy must veto anti-safety, anti-affordability, & anti-immigrant e-bike bill - Hudson County View
Op-Ed: Hudson County resident Maya Pontón Aronoff gives her take on why Gov. Murphy should veto the e-bike bill that has reached his desk.
https://hudsoncountyview.com/op-ed-murphy-must-veto-anti-safety-anti-affordability-anti-immigrant-e-bike-bill/
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Kevin
about 1 month ago
Rather than a religious text, newly-minted New Jersey Assemblywoman Katie Brennan, a progressive who beat a million-dollar spending disadvantage and the full force of the Hudson County machine, was sworn in on a printout of her district's entire universe of registered voters
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
about 1 month ago
New NJ law to require insurance and registration of all e-bikes is likely to get final vote in state Assembly and Senate on Monday or Tuesday of this week. Still time to register objections with your state elected reps if you have not done so yet. Bike JC has a great guide how to do it here:
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Tis the season: my North River Sing Community Choir concerts are coming up! We are a 70+ member Jersey City based group dedicated to the Great American Songbook. Come check us out! 🎵 Jan. 17th in Jersey City at Temple Beth-El, 7pm 🎵 Jan. 25th in NYC at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 4pm
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 1 month ago
A brief word from our President, Tyler Newcomb, about some of the worst aspects of this NJ e-bike bill, and what you and all of us need to do TODAY to stop it.
@tylernewcomb.bsky.social
@hudcostreets.org
@bikehoboken.org
@peopleforbikes.bsky.social
@bikeleague.org
@bcgp.bsky.social
@transalt.org
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 1 month ago
Senator Scutari's grossly irresponsible e-bike bill has advanced again, despite being a knee-jerk reaction to 2 women being murdered by a man using a car as a weapon. It would criminalize e-bike riders and discourage safe and sustainable transport, and it must be stopped.
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Thrilled and honored to share that I’ll be co-chairing the Transit and Transportation Committee for Mayor-elect Solomon’s Transition Team alongside Senator Raj Mukherji!
solomonforjc.com/news/transit...
about 1 month ago
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 1 month ago
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we've had to postpone the
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
event that was scheduled for Jan. 21. We're working to come up with a new location and date sometime in the Spring!
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Streetsblog NYC
about 2 months ago
Everyone wish congestion pricing a happy birthday!
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Upzone New Jersey 🏗️
about 2 months ago
As this explains, it's *always* been a patronage mill, and all promises that expansion will fix traffic have proven to be wrong.
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Why New Jersey Turnpike tolls were meant to disappear and never did
Tolls rise 3% in 2026, extending a system born in 1948 with a promise that drivers would travel New Jersey’s turnpike for free starting in 1986.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2025/12/30/new-jersey-turnpike-was-meant-to-be-free-why-tolls/87814266007
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Doug Gordon
about 2 months ago
The next time there's a fight over reclaiming space from cars, one thing that gives me hope is that we will have a new mayor who will point to what happened with congestion pricing — and Citi Bike, 14th Street, etc. — and tell the naysayers that they are almost always wrong.
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Mark D. Levine
about 2 months ago
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 2 months ago
With the help of 100 people, we've raised $4,220 to buy a Bike Lane Sweeper! Help us raise $800 more to reach our goal. Donate:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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🚲Bike JC🗽
about 2 months ago
Right now there is a proposed bill requiring insurance, registration and a license to ride ANY e-bike in NJ, including low speed e-bikes that go under 20mph. This bill lumps all low speed e-bikes with higher speed devices under the term “motorized bicycles” and eliminates the
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Turnpike Trap
about 2 months ago
The Turnpike Trap Coalition publishes the following statement in response to NJTA's Friday announcement. The "cancellation" is misleading: ❌ Proceeding with 4 new lanes adding >20K cars and trucks a day to Newark & Jersey City ❌ Tear down and rebuild plans after 14A are murky ❌ No dollars for NJT
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🚲Bike JC🗽
2 months ago
We are thrilled to partner with
@jctheatercenter.bsky.social
to host an evening with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, the co-hosts of
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
podcast and authors of Life After Cars at White Eagle Hall on Wednesday, January 21. Tickets:
www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...
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Doug Gordon
2 months ago
If you missed our Brooklyn live show this is your chance! And this one will be different from The Bell House so come catch us again even if you've seen us before.
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🚲Bike JC🗽
2 months ago
The horrifyingly ignorant, destructive, one-size-fits-all NJ e-bike bill cleared committee today in Trenton. We all need to burn this atrocity to the ground. Please tell your state legislators, present and future, and stay tuned here.
@njbikeped.org
@njbwc.org
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social
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This is gonna be an awesome night! Don’t miss it!
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🚲Bike JC🗽
3 months ago
We are thrilled to partner with
@jctheatercenter.bsky.social
to host an evening with the co-hosts of
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
podcast and authors of Life After Cars at White Eagle Hall on Wednesday, January 21 at 7PM. Tickets:
www.eventim.us/event/LIFE-A...
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Election Night 2017 with Councilman-Elect Solomon ➡️ Election Night 2025 with Mayor-Elect Solomon! Safe to say I’ve been a big Solomon fan since the beginning 😁 I truly couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter of Jersey City with James at the helm!! 🎉
#AllPoliticsIsLocal
#JerseyCity
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New Jersey Monitor
3 months ago
Councilman James Solomon defeats ex-Gov Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayor’s race
newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/jerse...
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Councilman James Solomon defeats ex-Gov Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayor's race • New Jersey Monitor
Councilman James Solomon will become Jersey City's new mayor in January, succeeding three-term incumbent Steve Fulop.
https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/jersey-city-mayors-race-councilman-governor/
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3 months ago
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.
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3 months ago
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
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Super_Bus_Machine 🧑🎄 🎄🤶🏽
3 months ago
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
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🚲Bike JC🗽
3 months ago
Photo by Frank Hanavan
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3 months ago
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-...
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Op-Ed: Micro-mobility solutions are needed to combat traffic on NJ's Gold Coast - Hudson County View
Op-Ed: WNY resident Michael Elling discusses what needs to be done to convent North Hudson and South Bergen from "micro-mobility wastelands."
https://hudsoncountyview.com/op-ed-micro-mobility-solutions-are-needed-to-combat-traffic-on-njs-gold-coast/
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🚲Bike JC🗽
3 months ago
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
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At our happy hour last night, my
@bikejc.bsky.social
board members surprised me with some very sweet gifts and a big toast celebrating my 4 years as board president 🥹 It really meant a lot! (Thanks guys!!) 💕
3 months ago
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🚲Bike JC🗽
3 months ago
TONIGHT!! Friday, Nov. 14, 7 pm–? Join Bike JC for a Happy Hour! 🍻 Zeppelin Hall, 88 Liberty View Dr. Join fellow cyclists & advocates to chat about bikes, transportation & Jersey City! Find out how to get involved, what we’re planning for next year—and just hang with us! 1/2
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James Sinclair
3 months ago
Please sit down before looking at this screenshot. Better things might be possible!
@2avesag.as
@thelirrtoday.com
@airlineflyer.net
@mdasilva.bsky.social
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🚲Bike JC🗽
4 months ago
✅ Election Day! Polls are open till 8:00 pm tonight in Jersey City, as we choose a governor, state Assembly members, county sheriff, mayor, city council, and school board members. When cyclists vote, cyclists win!
#IBikeIVote
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🚲Bike JC🗽
4 months ago
Pop-up Jersey City Light-Up Ride THIS Wednesday! Last of 2025. Evening forecast around 60°F. Meet 6:00 Grove PATH, roll 6:30. Short, flat, easy farewell parade around DTJC & Hoboken night spots and parks. Free; all welcome; just show up with your bike, ready to ride by 6:30.
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Transportation Alternatives
4 months ago
Happy Halloween! 🎃
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🚲Bike JC🗽
4 months ago
If you can spare a few hours on Saturday, Nov. 8, consider volunteering with our friends Let’s Share a Meal at their annual food drive! They do SO much important work feeding the local community, and the looming SNAP crisis makes their work that much more urgent.
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🚲Bike JC🗽
4 months ago
MONDAY! Join us at this important event! SafeStreetsJC and BikeJC are holding a mayoral forum to ask questions about what Vision Zero will look like under a new administration. 📆 October 27 at 7 PM 📍 PS11, 886 Bergen Ave, Jersey City Register and submit your questions to
bit.ly/vision-zero-...
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🚲Bike JC🗽
5 months ago
Today at noon, our second free bike tour of the
#JCAST
art fest rolls around Jersey City. Join us! Meet 11:30 at Grove PATH Plaza with your bike. Today we visit Downtown, the Heights, and Journal Square. Route:
ridewithgps.com/events/40081...
Live tracking map:
bluelane.io/wTJAL4
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Alec Perkins
5 months ago
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🚲Bike JC🗽
5 months ago
Weather forecast: spectacular! Sunny, no rain, high of 80F. Hydrate!
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🚲Bike JC🗽
5 months ago
Let there be light! On the bike lane! (& sidewalks, and murals.) Today
#JerseyCity
lit the new streetlights in the once-forbidding areas under the overpass at 12th Street., over the Coles Street curb-raised lane & around the corner by the big murals. The bit under the 14th St. bridge is lit now too.
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