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We know @mayor.nyc.gov wasn't in office when this bike lane was designed, but he's in charge now. The @nycdot.bsky.social has stalled for years without putting it in, even though the Community Board asked for it. Do you think the City will finally act after these kids got hurt?

Official rhetoric about "vision zero" notwithstanding, people are doctoring their own bad streets @nydailynews.com

3) Today, MTA announced the suspension of all EAGLE team activity on buses: gothamist.com/news/mta-sus... THIS is what organized riders make possible!

Who’s gonna tell him? No one. No one will tell him “When there is a car accident in the area, of which there are many, they don’t stop cars from entering the Park” @nypost.com

New protected bikeway triggers mass sidewalk parking - normal city

There are many ballot question guides out there. Read the ballot referendum guide that DIDN'T draw an annoyed rebuke from Reinvent Albany for misrepresenting their position on one of the questions nygroove.nyc/coge-ballot-...

If you're free on Saturday, come down and heckle the dozen or so nuts that show up for this.

👍👍 New intersections covered = 450, for 600 total since it can be hard to parse the facts from the headlines where city press releases are concerned

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Who the hell would develop this method? I saw officers doing payment enforcement on Munich subway (whole system is proof of payment). Plainclothes, only making a few inquiries per car. Not disruptive but still creates a sanction/disincentive

A group of cops employed by the Department of Sanitation parked their city-issued vehicles in a bus lane and blocked their license plates with plastic bags in order to evade bus-lane tickets while they grabbed lunch, according to a video posted on Instagram. buff.ly/In5NJzz

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.

Who would have thought Liz Truss could outlast anyone in a role!!

The Port Authority put out a strategic plan for improving cycling in 2017 that helped guide a generation of bridge projects Promise at the time was 5 year updates. But nothing has been forthcoming since - I was looking fwd to a 2022-3 plan pointing to more bike friendly airport access

Thought we might get thru this season without this, but here we go - so weak: "On Thursday, Hochul also told Juliet Papa of 1010WINS that she was 'taking a look at' calling off the planned 2028 toll increase to $12" @nyc.streetsblog.org

Rep Larsen said it himself in Politico yesterday.

Anyone know if DOT/DDC are still erasing the 4th Ave bikeway in places where it is doing capital work on the medians? (Haven't been on 4th in a bit) The Ydanis DOT had a totally bullshit rationale for the practice

Knowing what is in those offices, 9 out of 10 chance that each one of those cars belong to a city employee.

Sharing the first of a few Oonee updates; as many of you know this year has been interesting but the good work must continue. We've begun pre-construction on the city's first Dutch-Style Bike Hub, that entails selecting a GC, confirming revised drawings and selecting components. More 🧵 ⬇️

How Trump destroyed the US economy.

Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg

I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

September was the only month in history we've seen an average diesel price over $6 per gallon, and we're likely to break that again in October with average prices currently at $6.287 per gallon.

More from @bethosborne.bsky.social: Dems in office keep the highway machine humming @usa.streetsblog.org

The point is that progressive leadership does not tend to result in progressive transportation policy. If groups that want the outcomes that progressives claim to care about then they need to dial up the pressure for real actions. bethosbornesga.substack.com/p/electing-p...

💥Many batteries on the street or in the disposal cycle are “simply exploding due to age or damage”

13-24c/gal is now 22-39c/gal and counting... diesel prices will sharply swing higher soon at a pump near you

What does this episode say about the AI industry LOL? "the appearance of Adams..only added to the sense of distrust and suspicion around the project"

Who thought getting Eric Adams to pitch a Wisconsin data center was a good idea? What did the former mayor of NYC do in the Badger State? How did it go so wrong? We traveled to Wisconsin Rapids to find out: hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-w...

MSG lease is up again in just under 2 years - just saying @council.nyc.gov

Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...

C'mon, Keith. *How* did Norway turn its oil reserves into "extraordinary national wealth"? *Public ownership of oil companies *78 per cent profit tax on oil companies *25 per cent sales tax economy-wide so the oil revenues could be saved These are not serious people. #abpoli

Important piece from @bethosborne.bsky.social on how American gov't gets transportation wrong Troubling that she thinks House Dems will reboot the POS Republican reauthorization bill they voted for this past summer usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/13/2...

why the FUCK is the transit workers union running anti-Hochul ads?? seems like they would literally rather have a Republican governor that would destroy the MTA for some insane reason?

Thinking about Mamdani sustaining Eric Adams' 11th hour reintroduction of cars to two city parks after 5 years of successful car-free statusL Piece I wrote w @kathyparkprice.bsky.social in March www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/14/m...

This should not be hard. No cars in the parks. No motorcycles in the parks. No illegal contraptions in the parks.

Utter pablum from Mamdani Parks Dept (cars in our backyard for months, enjoying outdoors w 🚘🚙?) “Our parks are our backyard, and we will continue to work w our partners to explore additional opportunities for New Yorkers to enjoy the outdoors while listening to the specific needs of each community”

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...