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Co-Executive Director
@openplans.org
| Transportation, Housing, Walkable Cities.
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Streetsblog NYC
4 days ago
"I'm not throwing cold water on any plans, but I just met with the mayor [elect] and we're having really important collegial conversations about his agenda, and so I don't want to disclose anything," the Governor told Streetsblog's Austin Jefferson.
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Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
https://buff.ly/IUBoXMN
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Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr.
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Paseo Park
@nyc.streetsblog.org
features my video this morning!
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Monday's Headlines: Permanent Paseo Edition - Streetsblog New York City
We journeyed to Jackson Heights to celebrate a milestone in the life of the 34th Avenue open street. Plus other news.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/17/mondays-headlines-permanent-paseo-edition
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Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr.
9 days ago
Time to pass NYC Council Intro 1138 to bring
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@openplans.org
@transalt.org
@familiesforsafestreets.org
@shahanafrombk.bsky.social
@saraklind.bsky.social
@jacksonchabot.bsky.social
@cmjuliewon.bsky.social
Here's our fun promo! TODAY: City Hall Steps at 1:30 pm!
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🚇 Riders Alliance
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How to incentivize the 34% who drive (and make up 80% of NYC's traffic) to join the 65% who get around car-free?
@openplans.org
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says "Bus Rapid Transit would be a huge game changer in terms of getting people out of cars," — and we agree!
hellgatenyc.com/nyc-is-losin...
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NYC Is Losing the War on Cars
New Yorkers are driving a lot more—plus some links to rev up your Wednesday.
https://hellgatenyc.com/nyc-is-losing-the-war-on-cars/
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Gersh Kuntzman
6 months ago
Every cyclist in the city should be at tonight's 6 pm rally against NYPD's policy of criminalizing minor traffic infractions — because you could be the next victim of police overreach or lethal force.
@kevinduggan.bsky.social
has a BLOCKBUSTER story:
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30/c...
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Cyclist: Cop Pulled a Taser During Summons Chase - Streetsblog New York City
In a dramatic escalation of the NYPD's criminal crackdown on bike riders, a police officer pulled a stun gun while chasing a cyclist for allegedly running a red light on a regular bike.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30/cyclist-cop-pulled-a-taser-during-summons-chase
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Open Plans
6 months ago
Congestion relief works – the data proves it. The city’s leaders should stand with working New Yorkers and stand up to Washington. We can’t let out-of-touch politicians roll back the progress we’ve made.
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This is a great article that lays out some of the solutions to reducing deaths and serious injuries. Part of the solution: just reducing driving overall. I'm excited to share more soon about the work we're doing at
@openplans.org
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Open Plans
7 months ago
"The faster a car is going, the more likely they are to kill or injure someone, but getting the worst of the worst drivers off the road... is a good policy solution.” -
@saraklind.bsky.social
Read more:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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What’s Behind the Rise in Serious Injuries on New York City’s Streets?
Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers all saw elevated injury rates in the last three years, despite the city’s decade-long commitment to Vision Zero safety reforms.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-09/nyc-s-streets-saw-serious-injuries-rise-as-traffic-returned?srnd=undefined
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7 months ago
"Abundance" is all over the headlines lately. But in New York, it's not just a buzzword—it's a movement. 🗽 Here are 7 leaders and organizations powering the Abundance Agenda in our city and state—and how you can get involved. 👇 🧵
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Open Plans
7 months ago
Our co-executive director
@saraklind.bsky.social
talked with Reddit’s Micromobility NYC about outdoor dining and how the program could be improved. "We told them over and over again that what they were doing was going to ruin the program... and it has." Listen more:
www.reddit.com/r/Micromobil...
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From the MicromobilityNYC community on Reddit: Another victim of the Council's all-consuming Parking obsession: Outdoor Dining.
Explore this post and more from the MicromobilityNYC community
https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/1k64f7r/another_victim_of_the_councils_allconsuming/
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John Scalzi
7 months ago
When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.
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Opponents of outdoor dining: it’s a giveaway of public space! Also opponents of outdoor dining: give me more free parking on public space!!
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Sidewalk congestion from sidewalk cafes is real. Here’s a solution: make roadway dining easier and widen sidewalks. Restaurants can flourish and people can walk - that’s much better than parking!
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Gersh Kuntzman
7 months ago
For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."
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Mehdi Hasan
7 months ago
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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jamelle
7 months ago
this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states
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Joe Walsh
7 months ago
He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world. And Putin keeps smiling every single day.
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Mary Garvey Washington
7 months ago
As a person, I agree, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.
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Bike lanes everywhere for safety!! Now!!
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist
7 months ago
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
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He’s sending people to concentration camps. A key feature of a concentration camp is that people don’t get trials before they are sent there.
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One of the biggest takeaways from the daylighting hearing: in over four hours of public testimony there was essentially zero opposition. Daylighting is super popular!!
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Tim Onion
7 months ago
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
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Aaron Rupar
7 months ago
Van Hollen: "I'm very glad that the killed of Rachel Morin has been convicted in a court of law. That is how we hold guilty people accountable ... I'm not sure why Abrego Garcia's rights should be denied based on an awful murder he had absolutely nothing to do with."
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Fascism is here and anyone denying it is simply wrong.
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Hamilton Nolan
7 months ago
I would like to see the AFL-CIO match the political urgency of David Brooks
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Melanie D’Arrigo
7 months ago
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Steve Vladeck
7 months ago
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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Scott MacFarlane
7 months ago
Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"
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Transportation Alternatives
7 months ago
We're getting ready for Monday's City Council hearing on universal daylighting! ✅ Signs made ✅ Testimony prepared
@cmjuliewon.bsky.social
Intro 1138 will make our streets safer, and we need your help to pass it...
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Sam
7 months ago
“I never thought the tariffs would come for MY supply chain” sobs founder who voted for the Tariffs Party
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Timothy Snyder
7 months ago
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Ron Filipkowski
7 months ago
Throw up protectionist trade barriers that hurt farmers, then bail out farmers with government handouts. MAGA Socialism.
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Josh Marshall
7 months ago
Lots of signs that tourism business in the US is absolutely cratering. International tourism is only part of that. But just remarkable that you see Secretary of State saying stuff like this.
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Dude was even a Trump supporter
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George Takei
7 months ago
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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Acyn
7 months ago
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
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jamelle
7 months ago
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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We’re censoring criticism of the regime now
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Ken Acks
7 months ago
How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing?
www.curbed.com/article/100-...
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How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very.
One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.
https://www.curbed.com/article/100-dayscongestion-pricing-mta-results.html
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Tim Lambert
7 months ago
"If citizens endorse the idea that people named by authorities as "criminals" or "terrorists" have no right to due process, then they are accepting that they themselves have no right to due process...Without it, the masked men... can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🎃
7 months ago
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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This is the kind of thing Dems should be doing in response to all of Trump’s illegal actions - take them on directly
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Mark Chadbourn
7 months ago
More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory
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Tony Michaels 🎙
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Kat Tenbarge
7 months ago
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta
7 months ago
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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derek guy
7 months ago
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
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The New York Times
7 months ago
Tens of thousands of homes in the New York City area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, a new report warns.
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In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding
The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/nyregion/climate-change-housing-crisis-new-york-city.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Acyn
7 months ago
Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.
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