Jon Orcutt

NYC’s mayor-elect dropped a line heard in bike lanes around the world — so we turned it into a shirt.

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It had to be reported, but surprising no one LOL

AKA “the city spent $100s of millions & we still got 3,000 plastic sticks”

Especially where the city has already admitted the roadway is overbuilt and done a quick project for bike lanes and pedestrian space!

❤️ the project accounts that jump 9 years between bullets

Along w long time frames, another problem is complacency of design for many capital projects that *are* done

9th Av was dug up for most of the 2010s. The project replaced the street as-is, rather than widen the built sidewalk (as *DOT did AFTER rebuild*) & providing a 100% curb-separated 🚲 lane

'The Permanence Agenda': Paint and Plastic Won’t Deliver Real Street Safety - Streetsblog New York City Rather than continuing New York's quick-build approach to redesigning streets with temporary materials, Zohran Mamdani should aim for permanent.

The pace at which NYC has turned temporary measures for boosting livable streets into more permanent solutions has been incredibly slow. Mayor Adams didn't fully seize the opportunity to turn paint into protection — but Mayor Mamdani might.

Most People Don't Drive To Court Street: DOT - Streetsblog New York City And more people bike than drive on the Brooklyn street!

More people bike than drive on the Brooklyn street — and that's before the protected lane was installed!

Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.

Trump drooling over Mamdani in the Oval Office the same day Hakeem Jeffries voted to condemn socialism could not be funnier to me

Quiet leadership from the Congressmember while other lesser pols were being noisy and stupid. No coverage of this at all in the major local media outlets whenever they ran anything.

We live with a fair number of good champions in such a stupid environment

My theory after visiting some mid-size French cities a year ago is that there is an Anne Hidalgo effect influencing a lot of municipal govts

Memo to Mamdani: Fifth Ave. Belongs to the People — Not the Ultra-Wealthy and Gridlock - Streetsblog New York City Zohran Mamdani should revive a DOT plan to transform Fifth Avenue shelved by de Blasio and Adams at the behest of powerful corporate interests.

"We owe this slow-roll to mediocrity to the wealthy denizens of the Fifth Avenue Association, who stymied the 2021 plan... The group’s members include Saks Fifth Avenue, the Trump Organization and Bergdorf Goodman."

There are some similar corridor planning efforts underway now - they haven't translated to the street yet, but putting the spurs to this work and having the greenways realized would be a great thing nycdotprojects.info/greenways

That became an active framework for plugging in construction funding. Still work to do at many points, but it started w the Congresswoman’s active support. The 2012 action plan is here:
nycdotprojects.info/sites/defaul...

At NYCDOT back in the day, we found an allocation of roughly $14M in unspent federal $$$. Previous management had ignored it.

The money had been secured by Rep Velazquez, working with the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. In consultation w the Congresswoman, we put the funds into a corridor plan

When you ride on #bikenyc paths around the Navy Yard, in Red Hook, Sunset Park & now under the Gowanus Expressway, you can thank @velazquez.house.gov for laying their foundation

AGENDA 2026: Mamdani Must Reduce, Digitize Parking Placards - Streetsblog New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani must face down the placard class to regain control of New York City streets.

“Parking is one of the areas where New York City is a bad joke. De Blasio didn’t have the heart to do anything about it and Adams embodied the bad joke” @nyc.streetsblog.org nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...

London's congestion charge will rise to the equivalent of $23.50.

NYC charges $9, with a scheduled increase to $12 in 2028

Most People Don't Drive To Court Street: DOT - Streetsblog New York City And more people bike than drive on the Brooklyn street!

Public conversations about street changes have become so absurd that city government essentially has to prove to people in NYC neighborhoods that they live in a big city @nyc.streetsblog.org nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/m...

Yes. Veto this bill.

Testimony to MTA Board: Gov. Hochul Must Veto Two-Person Train Operator Bill

Misguided bill will do nothing to improve subway service, and instead add costs that will ultimately be paid by transit riders.

Read it here:

It was the de Blasio Admin that gave Lyft 100% control over ebike pricing

Plus the East River Greenway is closed or doesn't exist in key stretches

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Transit fare taps on Paris region transit systems, 2019 through 2025.

Car traffic on the Paris ring highway (in blue) and within the city of Paris itself (in red), 2019–2025.

Cycling trips in Paris and western suburbs (Hauts-de-Seine), 2020–2025.

Ridership on Paris region transit systems is now generally at or higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bike use is much higher than pre-pandemic.

At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...

Breaking: Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding — Streetsblog USA "When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.

I think it's possible for Dems to delay the next transportation bill for a while, but it won't matter if they don't win Congress back in the midterms @usa.streetsblog.org usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/b...

Security Blanket: Will NYPD Smother Mamdani’s Love of Transit and Bikes? - Streetsblog New York City Zohran Mamdani spent his mayoral campaign riding the subway and biking around — but the demands of City Hall may test his transit habit.

Why *does* the mayor of Subway City always end up in the back of a Suburban? There are good reasons: Security, productivity, travel to non-Manhattan destinations. And a bad reason: Habit.

The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...

Join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end.

You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.

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