most media is framing this as a revenue/budget thing. mistake! metered/paid parking makes parking and driving better for drivers. you could set the money on fire and there would still benefits. focus on that. being able to invest it elsewhere is a bonus.

Yes, NYC should charge more for currently metered spaces and increase the amount of metered spaces while also thinking twice about charging for parking overall. As @saraklind.bsky.social notes, It could lock in using curbside space for car storage and create even more driver entitlement.

🚨 Sending out a call for help. Do you like outdoor dining? Want it year-round? There's still time to testify in support at today's City Council hearing. The anti-outdoor dining cranks are out in full force. Sign up here and pick the 10am on Transportation & Infrastructure council.nyc.gov/testify/

Five ✨Low Traffic Neighborhoods✨ in each borough by 2023 would limit cars using local streets as shortcuts, and help reach several key goals in the Streets Plan: safer, more accessible streets for pedestrians and cyclists. 🚶🏻‍♂️🚴🏾‍♀️

We’re thrilled to hear Commissioner Mike Flynn confirm that @nyc-dot.bsky.social supports Int 655 to make outdoor dining year-round! @cmrestler.bsky.social @speakermenin.bsky.social let’s get this passed asap before the new season begins

📢 We urge our leaders to make the right decision and bring back year-round outdoor dining once and for all. 👉🏼 Show your support for year-round outdoor dining by sending a letter: action.openplans.org/support-year...

School streets need to be a major initiative in the @mayor.nyc.gov Mamdani Administration. @nyc-dot.bsky.social So my latest blog post has for the very 1st time EVERY Streetfilm on school streets embedded in one place! PLUS: bonus photos. It's a great resource. www.streetfilms.org/featured/sch...

Our @saraklind.bsky.social joined the Max Politics podcast to talk about how @mayor.nyc.gov can create a more livable city, starting with School Streets! 🎧 Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UUN7RaA3DTJW5Ru9h4G6H

Ben Max, who refuses to post on BlueSky where his audience is but stays on X where he gets no engagement, has a new podcast out with @bfurnas.bsky.social and @saraklind.bsky.social. Well worth a listen. Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/gotham-gazet... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Have you checked out The Car-Free Carolers rendition of "Zohran, Zohran, Zohran"? (To the tune "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @openplans.org 🎵🎶🎵🎼 But can he make it happen He cannot fail us now 🎵 We need so many busways He better make us proud 🎶

We are delighted that our co-executive director @saraklind.bsky.social has been named to the transportation committee of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition team!!

"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.

Paseo Park @nyc.streetsblog.org features my video this morning! nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/17/m...

Time to pass NYC Council Intro 1138 to bring #daylighting to NYC's streets. Join @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!

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's @saraklind.bsky.social 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...

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...

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.

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 on Low Traffic Neighborhoods and VMT. More to come!

"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...

"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. 👇 🧵

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...

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.

Opponents of outdoor dining: it’s a giveaway of public space! Also opponents of outdoor dining: give me more free parking on public space!!

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!

For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states

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.

As a person, I agree, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

Bike lanes everywhere for safety!! Now!!

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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."

Fascism is here and anyone denying it is simply wrong.

I would like to see the AFL-CIO match the political urgency of David Brooks

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

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.

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"

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...

“I never thought the tariffs would come for MY supply chain” sobs founder who voted for the Tariffs Party

"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

Throw up protectionist trade barriers that hurt farmers, then bail out farmers with government handouts. MAGA Socialism.

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.

Dude was even a Trump supporter

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.

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.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

We’re censoring criticism of the regime now