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Amateur #bikeNYC lane cartographer | bike & pedestrian lawyer with @adamlaw50 | 2018 @5BPCNYC champion
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ICYMI the biggest news of the week was buried in Tuesday's
@StreetsblogNYC
article on
@NYC_DOT
regulatory delays.
I'm thrilled to announce I've joined the law practice of safe-streets legal legend Adam White! Please reach out for all your bike and pedestrian litigation needs.
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This is somehow a real statement by an elected official
I understand that congestion pricing would improve our environment, mass transportation and safer streets, but this is not the perfect time for it.
#protectourbusinesses
#protectharworkingfamilies
#taxidrivers
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I LOVE that
@transitapp
is rallying its users to push back on
@GovKathyHochul
’s congestion pricing betrayal
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When Eric Adams ran for mayor, he promised to build 300 miles of protected bike lanes in his first term. More than half way through it, just 59.6 miles have been installed.
still not really processed that a month ago LA voted to change *a third* of the city's streets to add:
300+ miles of protected bike lanes
250+ miles of bus only lanes
800+ miles of better neighborhood streets
500+ miles of pedestrian improvements
400+ miles of painted bike lanes
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@NYCMayor
has outdone himself! Amazing what you can get done in eight weeks when you're completely checked out and have to be dragged kicking and screaming every step of the way. Just look at all these
#OpenStreets
!
Here's where NYC will be opening up streets to pedestrians starting on Monday: 4.5 miles are inside parks; 2.7 miles are adjacent to parks
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The MTA loses $103,000 every hour that
@GovKathyHochul
“pauses” congestion pricing
#CongestionPricingNOW
#HochulsMTA
Congestion pricing was supposed to turn on five minutes ago. The MTA's capital plan is running on borrowed time before the cuts are made permanent. This cannot stand.
#congestionpricingnow
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@GovKathyHochul
is not above the law. She can’t unilaterally scrap congestion pricing because she got cold feet.
NY PBA Section 553 12-a says that Triborough Bridge Authority can only change tolls after a hearing. The governor does NOT have authority to change the planned toll.
That is the legal process to change toll - but it must still raise $1B/yr revenue.
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A right turning truck driver ran over Adam Uster, but it was bad street design that killed him. Let's look at Franklin Ave, where the deadly crash took place. 1/5
We are devastated to learn that Adam Uster — a longtime biker, community member, and TA member — was killed by a truck driver in Brooklyn.
We demand immediate action from our leaders to keep New Yorkers safe.
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Absolutely terrible news for Prospect Heights and Park Slope that Vanderbilt open street is cut by 40% and 5th Av is potentially dead. They were the best thing to come out of the pandemic. Unbelievable that the city can’t keep them going.
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@NYPD114Pct
Posting this with all the illegally parked cars in the background has to be intentional
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Stiff competition but the lifeguard shortage is one of the stupidest self inflicted city crises. Just throw whatever money is needed at the problem to fix it. Whatever it takes, the ROI will be off the charts. Fundamentally unserious administration.
So, apparently only ONE section of the pool is open — 1/4 of the entire pool—while the others remain closed because there aren’t enough lifeguards. Two years to complete the work and then this. What an utter disappointment. I won’t bother even trying to use the pool this summer.
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If a car is blocking the entire crosswalk, DO NOT just walk across the hood. Seems like a simple solution, but people get VERY MAD.
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This is a flat out lie. Congestion pricing is the law, and it will go into effect on June 30th unless the MTA board decides to violate the law by voting to halt it.
@GovKathyHochul
putting out a 3 minute video on Wednesday has no legal effect.
#GongetionPricingNOW
“What happens with congestion pricing think that’s been decided already - the delay,”
@CarlHeastie
.
“Your only choices are to raise revenue.”
“Either you have to do that now..Or sometime between now and January.”
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@brooklyn_darren
@jooltman
@Hertz
@GrowNYC
@prospect_park
@NYPD78Pct
@BrooklynCB6
@bradlander
@NYC_DOT
@NYPDTransport
Drivers get really mad when you do that. It’s incredibly hilarious but you gotta be ready to run fast.
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@mottiseligson
Cars are an impractical luxury. There’s simply not enough space in Manhattan for more than a tiny amount of commuters to bring their cars. Everyone in your photo could fit in a single bus with room to spare.
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She actually said this at which point I turned off the press conference so I didn’t break my computer
'Why don't we take steps now to address the issue of congestion?"
Gov Kathy Hochul (without irony) at Albany press conference
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Just spoke to someone in Heastie’s office who said they are starting to get a lot of call on the issue. Keep them coming. 1-518-455-3791
Call your state assembly member. Call your state senator. Call Carl Heastie. Tell them you oppose the payroll tax.
Taxing all New Yorkers to make up the congestion pricing gap is insane. And if they pass this tax, we will never get congestion pricing back.
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I’m looking for 50 miles of new protected bike lanes this year. Any chance I could get that?
May is Bike Month!
Looking for a free helmet, group rides, bike repair stations and more? We're hosting events across NYC throughout the month for cyclists of all ages and levels.
Details:
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This part of 9th St is 36' wide. Plenty of room for protected
#bikeNYC
lanes.
@NYC_DOT
just has to decide that lives are more important than parking and turn lanes.
After six deaths (including an unborn baby) in the last two decades on 9th Street:
"...DOT wasn’t armed with immediate ideas about how to make the area safer."
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@SecretaryPete
@POTUS
The greatest thing the administration could do for Amtrak (and its riders!) is finally enforce its legal priority over freight.
I’ve always wondered why
@amtrak
trains don’t have preference over freight trains; people waiting suffer more than coal does.
Turns out they DO have preference! It’s just that freight railroads ignore it,
Amtrak can’t sue, & DOJ ignores it! Fun!
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EXCLUSIVE:
@NYC_DOT
has installed the first new protected
#bikeNYC
lane of 2023. Grand St btwn Centre & Baxter has been upgraded from a standard lane to a tuff curb protected lane. This 143 ft project brings the city 1/1846th of the way to the 2023
#NYCStreetsPlan
requrement.
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Ted Kennedy cheated in a yacht race against me when I was 16. Who's dead now, Ted?
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$1b is not $1b. Revenue from fare enforcement can’t be bonded.
It’s also a complete fantasy that stepping up fare enforcement will bring in $1b a year.
And I’m happy to dig into the pockets of anyone driving into Manhattan. It would be worth doing if the money was set on fire.
It's one thing for CBD Tolling advocates to b apathetic about MTA's cost problems, but these takes are next level
$1b is $1b. Wouldn't we want it to come in way that makes transit safer, fairer, more efficient instead of digging deeper into NYers pockets?
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Love that the city couldn’t put together a map of the
#OpenStreets
so
@NYPD78Pct
had to borrow mine
A map detailing the Location of Open Streets in NYC. 8am-8pm daily.
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So excited to launch this project to track
@NYC_DOT
's progress installing protected
#bikeNYC
lanes! I've been working on the underlying data for the past year, and
@TransAlt
and
@jacob_decastro
did a fantastic job with the website!
The
#NYCStreetsPlan
requires the Adams administration to install 30 miles of protected bike lanes this year.
So far, only 6.9 miles have been installed.
We created a new bike lane tracker with
@BrandonWC
to ensure
@NYCMayor
gets to 30.
Check it out:
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@SecretaryPete
Thanks for giving the guidance needed to move congestion pricing forward for NYC. Looking forward to your final approval.
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@NYPD107Pct
since you deleted the tweet does that mean you’re going to give back the bikes you stole?
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4th Ave markings removed to prepare for extending protected
#bikeNYC
from 1st St to Flatbush. Can’t wait to see it done.
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@AdamMantine
@MaxKennerly
@mr_saltz
No one was defunded, and yet these cowards refuse to do their jobs. Does the boot in your mouth interfere with critical thinking?
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@NYC_DOT
should not be participating in the private “town hall” organized by the anti safe streets astroturf group that’s requiring the public to give their ID to said astroturf group to get in
Keep McGuinness Moving, the group opposing DOT's redesign, has closed online registrations for its town hall with DOT Thursday morning, citing "numerous instances of falsified registrations." They've also added ID requirements, restrictions on bags and bag checks "free of charge"
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Someone will get killed at Ashland and Lafayette where
@NYCMayor
expects south-bound bikers leaving the two-way bike lane on the east curb to cross the path of north bound cars to continue the last block to Flatbush.
In case you needed more reasons to consider Mayor Adams a punk, word is City Hall has decided the key connecting block of the Ashland Pl bikeway will be traffic as usual plus sharrows 💩 💩 💩
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Live people are still picking up at
@CarlHeastie
's office (if only to transfer you to voicemail). 518-455-3791
#CongestionPricingNow
! The legislature shouldn't bail out
#CongestionKathy
's debacle.
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I’ll fight all of you, but Citi Bike’s the best thing to happen to this city in my lifetime
We’ve just hit a new milestone — 100 million Citi Bike rides! And as it turns out, our 100 millionth rider is an essential worker helping to keep NYC going.
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Gonna try and survey today all of the in progress bike lane projects for an end of the 2022 update to the tracker (minus the 5.6 miles in southern Brooklyn/the Rockaways I looked at Friday)
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@ChabadLubavitch
@ohhleary
@NYC_DOT
Just take the L man. You don’t like Citibikes. Fine, whatever. You don’t need to double down on the throughly disproved lie.
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@patkiernan
This makes sense because congestion pricing is the law until and unless the MTA board acts
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@MelissaRusso4NY
@JoeLhota
We shouldn’t tax New Yorkers to subsidize drivers from New Jersey
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@GovKathyHochul
Climate arson. And the worst implementation of a terrible policy. It both rewards people with fake temp plates and gives the most to the people with the least efficient cars.
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A fantastic idea that should be expanded to air quality alert days too
Eyes on the actual congestion pricing proposal this morning, and there are some new details…
MTA is reserving the right to bump the charge *up* 25% on the DOT’s “gridlock alert days”
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I’m fairly certain the authorizing authority granted to the DOT commissioner is purely a formality – – not discretionary. This will be: is the program set up and ready to go? Not, “do you personally agree to start based on
@GovKathyHochul
polling
#s
?”
Either way, I will bet
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@GovKathyHochul
@NewYorkStateAG
New York passed nation-leading legislation in 2019 to combat the ill effects of cars and fund transit.
Furious that
#CongestionKathy
is trying to illegally stop it from going into effect.
#CongrstionPricingNOW
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Washington Bridge bike lane is coming along nice. Will be a key connection between upper Manhattan and the Bronx as soon as it opens.
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New Streets Plan just dropped. Let’s see how much of the “Current Protected
#bikeNYC
Network” (in dark green)
@NYC_DOT
just made up. 1/
Today we joined
@NYCMayor
&
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
to release the New York City Streets Plan to guide the development of bus, bicycle & pedestrian infrastructure over the next five years. This plan will help NYC equitably deliver
#VisionZero
projects
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Without this unnecessary second lane, there's lots of room for a protected bike lane. Offset turns at intersections would slow turning vehicles and move bikers out of truck blind spots. These changes would make Franklin safer for everyone and could have saved Adam's life. 5/5
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So are you, like, going to build them?
Thanks to
@RegionalPlan
for this new report calling for a network of protected
#bikenyc
lanes throughout NYC.
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An
@illegal53NYC
ft truck going down Franklin right where
#AdamUster
was killed. Who’s going to save us from this carnage?
@NYCMayor
?
@NYCCouncil
?
@nycdot
?
@CMCrystalHudson
, how soon can Franklin get a protected
#bikeNYC
lane?
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As a responsible tax payer, I always buy two beers on the ferry so the city at least breaks even on me.
“Revenue from [NYC Ferry] fares came to $19.8m in FY2023, up from $13.7m in FY22 and higher than the FY2019 peak of $13.9m.
The uptick in revenue comes as operation expenses remain relatively stable, leading to the lowest subsidy to date — $8.55/ride.”
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With news that
@NYCMayor
and
@NYC_DOT
are further delaying redesigning 5th Av and a plan is not expected until 2025, we will remove the project from the
@TransAlt
#NYCStreetsPlan
protected bike lane tracker.
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@NYCMayor
Most New Yorkers don’t own cars. The only effect cancelling ASP has on us is that the streets are dirtier.
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No annual
@CitiBikeNYC
member wants to get a receipt for $0.00 every time they take a ride. Why are you doing this?
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@davidmackau
I think Fs are given when the building doesn’t submit the required info. That’s why the rating here is “-/-” instead of a real number.
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In 2023,
@NYC_DOT
is proposing unprotected
#bikeNYC
lanes on 37’ wide outer boro streets despite saying for years that 34’ wide crosstown streets in Manhattan fit protected bike lanes. Not going to meet the
#NYCStreetsPlan
requirements like this.
Lincoln Avenue, Father Capodanno Boulevard to North Railroad Avenue - presented to Staten Island Community Board 2 Traffic, Transportation and Public Service Committee in April 2023
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@NJTurnpike
Climate arson. Scrap this $10 billion highway widening program. Invest in transit.
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@GovKathyHochul
Thanks to you the air will be dirtier, the streets more dangerous, and the subway more decrepit
#CongestionPricingNOW
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Fellas is it racist for a woman to try to be mayor?
It’s clear that this stunt by Kathryn is all about trying to stop
@ericadamsfornyc
, a person of color that is in position to become our next Mayor.
The City has only had 1 Black Mayor in its history; David Dinkins who only served 1 term. Now that we have a candidate…
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@MTA
why is
@NYCTSubway
using the Fourth Ave
#bikeNYC
lane and sidewalk extension as a shuttle bus stop?
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🚨CORRECTED EMAIL ADDRESS FOR DOT COMMISH🚨
RT this version if you RTed the earlier one
Let the state DOT Commissioner know that she must follow the law, no matter what the Governor says:
Call: (518) 457-4422
Email: Marietherese.dominguez
@dot
.ny.gov
@MarieThereseNY
You are not above the law.
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