This weekend we debuted our Tiny Super Sidewalk on Canal Street! Canal is one of the most dangerous streets in Manhattan, and there's not enough space for the huge number of pedestrians. But both of these problems can be solved by extending the sidewalks!

All of these communities in NJ would be revolutionized by a political class that cared about transit.

Big surprise: New York is the only US city where most households don't have cars. But there are some big zero-car minorities across the river in New Jersey and in Washington, Boston and San Francisco. From new column with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Fun fact - the NJ Turnpike extension through downtown Jersey City roughly follows the path of the now-underground Mill Creek. Imagine if we ripped out the highway and restored the creek…

Chris Christie 2.0 all over again. Pausing this will just end up costing us even more. We do not have a choice, we have to build this tunnel. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social Middle of the day HBLR experience: there is a West Side train approaching Exchange Place, but the timetable on screen says 7 mins away. The next train is 19 minutes away; maybe, maybe not? I invite you to commute to and from work using the HBLR to get my vote! #njtransit

It's time to Fix Canal Street! DOT is collecting feedback on the upcoming redesign, and they need to hear from you. The Fix Canal Team analyzed the plan — here's what we like about it, and here's what we'd like to see more of... First, make sure you answer, YES! You support the redesign.

Governor Murphy has defunded investment in NJ Transit by $2.4B over 10 years while increasing funding for highway expansions to $24B over 10 years. It is no accident our trains and buses are constantly breaking down. #turnpiketrap

"NJ Transit reported 634 cancellations due to mechanical issues over the three-month period, the highest number under any year since Murphy took office in 2018. This summer, they rose for the third consecutive year." -- newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/17/m...

Bus Lanes benefit everyone. Sign the petition to support bus lanes in Jersey City.

More canceled light rail trains make kids 40 minutes late to school. www.nj.com/news/2025/09...

"Nine months into the program, there’s every reason to believe that congestion pricing is actually one of the best things to happen to New York City’s streets in the automobile age." - amNewYork's editorial board

You remember the dire predictions about congestion pricing inducing more traffic and higher emissions in the South Bronx. Well none of them have come to pass, according to data analyzed by Charlie Komanoff.

It's time to finally Fix Canal. No more deaths. TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m., Community Board 3’s Transportation Committee will discuss the future of Canal Street. To demand pedestrian safety, meet us at the Confucius Plaza Community Room at 33 Bowery at Bayard Street.

New York is a special place in a lot of ways, but that doesn't include the reality of how transportation works. Cities all over the world have long moved to one-person and fully automated trains. Indeed, we do it in NY right now on the G & M trains, with no effect on safety.

"even better than helping traffic to move better would be to acknowledge that Canal Street is effectively narrowed due to the blocks with frequent double parking, and simply turn today’s double-parking lane into tomorrow’s curb." reorientations.medium.com/what-should-...

I like the new design of Transit app. But it doesn’t matter, the Light Rail didn’t bother to show up at the “scheduled” 8:11am anyway. #njtransit #njtransitsucks @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

Let me shoutout a powerful op-ed written by a colleague of mine real quick. Check it out: Op-Ed | Cut-through traffic is clogging residential streets; here’s what we can do about it www.amny.com/opinion/cut-...

From Q4 2020 to Q1 2024, highway construction costs increased 71.5%. That's the dirty little secret with projected highway construction costs, they're all fake underestimates certain to increase. enotrans.org/article/high...

"In late July, one horrific crash claimed two victims on Canal St. and less than 24 hours later, another crash in the same intersection injured two people... Canal St. is undeniably one of the most dangerous corridors in Manhattan."

Gift article- Aug.4 PATH fire caused by arcing between train and track www.nj.com/news/2025/08...

Robert Moses still haunts New York

Hudson County desperately needs investments in light rail, but currently we are spending 100% of our money on Turnpike widening instead. Read the details on needed investments from Jesse Halpern: hudsoncountyview.com/op-ed-hudson...

Trying something kind of different. There was a huge crowd at WTC at 3:20 but @PATHTrain was actually running 10 min service with a JSQ shuttle today. Give them credit, but I still don't understand why this wasn't their first instinct and took months to get to.

Just imagine @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, what we could accomplish if we ran frequent service, expanded service to the Ironbound and Newark Penn, fix PATH, improve bus service - then we won’t need to waste billions to demolish a highway & rebuild it just to add ONE lane of traffic.

In European cities like Barcelona, London, and Milan, most vehicle emissions are from tires, road wear, and brakes -- not exhaust. Extensive report from @eiturbanmobility.eu: www.eiturbanmobility.eu/wp-content/u...

New Jersey commuters are experiencing another “Summer of Hell” with the PATH system. It stops when I’m governor. www.nj.com/news/2025/08...

Not to make everything about NJ, but I can't resist. Under the leadership of NJDOT and Gov Murphy, NJ is planning to expand the Turnpike for a similar cost $1B per mile (cost not event updated since 2022!). At least NYC has some sense to spend the money on pubic transit.

We must set ourselves free from this cycle. We can repair highways and build public transportation between popular destinations. Why is this so hard????

More of a reason NJT needs to get it together and extend the light rail there: www.roi-nj.com/2025/08/13/r...

Free read- what’s made this a summer of hell for PATH riders, possible solutions and a chance toward redemption www.nj.com/news/2025/08...

It's hard to emphasize just how amazing and important this is to hear. Light metro is absolutely the right technology for the IBX: smallish, frequent, automated trains are ideally suited for a circumferential line of this type. Kudso to the MTA; we'll be pushing to ensure it stays this way!

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Port Authority suspends most PATH service Wednesday as summer of hell continues https://gothamist.com/news/port-authority-suspends-most-path-service-wednesday-as-transit-summer-of-hell-continues

Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens are coming together! We’re urging Governor Hochul and DOT to suspend harmful projects that widen the Brooklyn-Queens and Cross Bronx Expressways. Help us advocate for safe and sustainable alternatives that protect communities and the environment. See you there!

I don’t know what has pissed me off more during this 2 1/2 hour commute home the fact that NJ Transit just decides to not update anything when Hudson Bergen Light Rail goes down or runs a bus line (16) every hour and just has it casually not show up or show in the app.

@turnpiketrap.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaH...

I’m not gonna be hijacked by politicians who explicitly are against the best interests of the health of my community. We should be doing the opposite of widening the Turnpike Extension. We should be improving air quality, not making it worse.

That's why we need to comprehensive plan. We need to rethink the way we build infrastructure as we enter a climate emergency. Congresswoman Sherrill, let's fund transit, infrastructure to protect us against climate change - & DEFUND the Turnpike Extension.

#JCcrashes Tuesday afternoon at 5pm, a motorcyclist crashed on State Highway 440 at the border of Jersey City and Bayonne. Heavy bleeding, ultimately dying of his injuries. We must do better with our state roadways @govmurphy.bsky.social @njbwc.org @turnpiketrap.org @jerseycitytimes.bsky.social

NJ spending $11B to widen a highway, instead of funding a starving NJ Transit system! The ease with which our elected officials sign off on more lanes, concrete, and VMT without for thinking about the alternatives! What else could NJ do with $11B???

It's past time to #FixCanal — and that work doesn't end until the entire corridor is safe from beginning to end. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/24/f...

Exciting news on Penn Station: through-running is on the table. Through-running trains would not only make the most use out of valuable space at Penn, it would create a regional system for transportation across the region. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

Rally tomorrow night in NYC. This campaign and the @turnpiketrap.org efforts to stop expansion of the NJ Tpke. Extension are complimentary, covering the same dangerous, dirty corridor of traffic violence and pollution.

BTW, when NYC’s dangerous, car-choked Canal St is redesigned—and it will be—that will be another reason NOT to dump more car traffic directly onto it via the Holland Tunnel and an expanded @newjerseyturnpike.bsky.social Extension 🛑🚫✋ @turnpiketrap.org @nyc.streetsblog.org @bikenewyork.bsky.social

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We've been fighting to fix Canal Street for seven years, but City Hall has sat on its hands. Now two more New Yorkers are dead from a crash. These deaths are avoidable. Canal Street must be redesigned now to save lives. We went on PIX11 News to talk about it:

NJ Transit says its higher fare revenue goals depend on more people being required to work in the office. But they’ve missed their goals for 9 straight years www.nj.com/news/2025/07...