As this explains, it's *always* been a patronage mill, and all promises that expansion will fix traffic have proven to be wrong. www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

This is gonna be an awesome night! Don’t miss it!

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...

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

Councilman James Solomon defeats ex-Gov Jim McGreevey in Jersey City mayor’s race newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/jerse...

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.

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

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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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-...

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 🕯️

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!!) 💕

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

Please sit down before looking at this screenshot. Better things might be possible! @2avesag.as @thelirrtoday.com @airlineflyer.net @mdasilva.bsky.social

✅ 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

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.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

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.

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-...

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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Weather forecast: spectacular! Sunny, no rain, high of 80F. Hydrate!

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.

Not a big surprise: Jersey City came in second. People need to stop pretending we’re some inherently car-dependent exurb, and embrace an urban transportation mix, with more and better mass transit, biking and walking.

Park(ing) Day 2025 in Jersey City is in full effect! 190 & 191 Monticello Ave. at Jewett Ave. Here till 6:00 pm. Come through!! Bike tune-ups available!

I got to make some artwork for this good event, which is a nice reminder that the public space that lines our streets can be used for things other than storing cars. Stop by on Friday.

A big, important event is happening Sunday at West Orange High School, the 15th Annual STOP for Nikhil Run/Walk/Bike Ride, promoting road safety all over NJ. Register/Donate at StopForNikhil.org

This Friday, let’s celebrate streets for people! We’ll observe Park(ing) Day, an annual, global tradition, by turning 3 Jersey City parking spaces into pocket parks for the day, featuring food, games, activities, and no-cost bike tune-ups. 1/3

Online navigable, zoomable route for tomorrow’s ride, with cue sheets etc. Note that the elevation listings don’t include our (smooth, separated, totally car-free) climb up the Bayonne Bridge bike/walkway, about 200 feet to the top/middle of the span. ridewithgps.com/events/39660...

The City of Jersey City has given me the best wedding gift ever by installing a Citibike station right in front of my house two days before I get married. Thank you to all the folks at the Dept of Infrastructure for getting the south side expansion funded!

Redesigning Johnston Ave will make it safer. Narrowing travel lanes and adding protected bike lanes are proven traffic calming safety measures that will make the roadway safer for everyone.

“it’s vital for kids to have the kind of experience and autonomy that walking and biking around a community can afford” I wish the author could get beyond the idea of the dilemma as between kid independence and safety, and really connect with the idea that safety *provides* independence.

Totally agreed. I got my license at 16, but haven’t had a car since moving to NYC half a lifetime ago. I drive maybe once a year when I go home. But my license gives me free use of cars anywhere, despite basically not having driven for 2 decades 🙃

#JCcrashes There was a four-car crash yesterday at 440 and Virginia Ave across from Hudson Mall. One of the vehicles apparently ran a red light and knocked over a traffic pole. This occurred just one block away from where Phillip Delancy was killed: www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity...

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Our next monthly Jersey City Light-Up Ride is THIS Friday, 8/8, meeting 7:30 at Grove PATH Plaza and rolling at 8:00 sharp. Route TBA but it will be our annual Pride Ride! Rainbow attire, costumes, lights, playlists, etc. optional but very welcome!
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What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation? Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending. climateandcommunity.org/research/let...

Best moment of 2025 so far! Here’s to many more in Jersey City, NYC and beyond!

Once again we’ve had to cross state lines to see the inauguration of new secure 🚲 parking at a transit station. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop with advocates & OoneePod at the new 🅿️ facility at the Grove St PATH station

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

Bike JC President @aylaschermer.bsky.social and NJ Bike Walk Coalition @njbwc.org Deb Kagan celebrated the groundbreaking for the Essex-Hudson Greenway today in Newark!

A great example of how advocacy works! 💪 This is going to be a transformative project, and not just because I contributed one shovel of dirt towards it! 😅

Governor Murphy still wants to widen a highway through Jersey City, something that will spew more carbon into the atmosphere. One day people will make the connection between the immediate emergency they're declaring and the longterm emergency they're enabling.