Ayla Schermer

Today at noon, our second free bike tour of the #JCAST art fest rolls around Jersey City. Join us! Meet 11:30 at Grove PATH Plaza with your bike. Today we visit Downtown, the Heights, and Journal Square.
Route: ridewithgps.com/events/40081...
Live tracking map: bluelane.io/wTJAL4

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Weather forecast: spectacular! Sunny, no rain, high of 80F. Hydrate!

Let there be light! On the bike lane! (& sidewalks, and murals.) Today #JerseyCity lit the new streetlights in the once-forbidding areas under the overpass at 12th Street., over the Coles Street curb-raised lane & around the corner by the big murals. The bit under the 14th St. bridge is lit now too.

Not a big surprise: Jersey City came in second. People need to stop pretending we’re some inherently car-dependent exurb, and embrace an urban transportation mix, with more and better mass transit, biking and walking.

Park(ing) Day 2025 in Jersey City is in full effect! 190 & 191 Monticello Ave. at Jewett Ave. Here till 6:00 pm. Come through!! Bike tune-ups available!

I got to make some artwork for this good event, which is a nice reminder that the public space that lines our streets can be used for things other than storing cars. Stop by on Friday.

A big, important event is happening Sunday at West Orange High School, the 15th Annual STOP for Nikhil Run/Walk/Bike Ride, promoting road safety all over NJ.

Register/Donate at StopForNikhil.org

This Friday, let’s celebrate streets for people! We’ll observe Park(ing) Day, an annual, global tradition, by turning 3 Jersey City parking spaces into pocket parks for the day, featuring food, games, activities, and no-cost bike tune-ups. 1/3

Online navigable, zoomable route for tomorrow’s ride, with cue sheets etc. Note that the elevation listings don’t include our (smooth, separated, totally car-free) climb up the Bayonne Bridge bike/walkway, about 200 feet to the top/middle of the span.

ridewithgps.com/events/39660...

The City of Jersey City has given me the best wedding gift ever by installing a Citibike station right in front of my house two days before I get married.

Thank you to all the folks at the Dept of Infrastructure for getting the south side expansion funded!

Redesigning Johnston Ave will make it safer. Narrowing travel lanes and adding protected bike lanes are proven traffic calming safety measures that will make the roadway safer for everyone.

“it’s vital for kids to have the kind of experience and autonomy that walking and biking around a community can afford”

I wish the author could get beyond the idea of the dilemma as between kid independence and safety, and really connect with the idea that safety *provides* independence.

Totally agreed. I got my license at 16, but haven’t had a car since moving to NYC half a lifetime ago.

I drive maybe once a year when I go home. But my license gives me free use of cars anywhere, despite basically not having driven for 2 decades 🙃

#JCcrashes There was a four-car crash yesterday at 440 and Virginia Ave across from Hudson Mall. One of the vehicles apparently ran a red light and knocked over a traffic pole. This occurred just one block away from where Phillip Delancy was killed: www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity...

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Our next monthly Jersey City Light-Up Ride is THIS Friday, 8/8, meeting 7:30 at Grove PATH Plaza and rolling at 8:00 sharp. Route TBA but it will be our annual Pride Ride! Rainbow attire, costumes, lights, playlists, etc. optional but very welcome!
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Best moment of 2025 so far! Here’s to many more in Jersey City, NYC and beyond!

Once again we’ve had to cross state lines to see the inauguration of new secure 🚲 parking at a transit station. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop with advocates & OoneePod at the new 🅿️ facility at the Grove St PATH station

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

Bike JC President @aylaschermer.bsky.social and NJ Bike Walk Coalition @njbwc.org Deb Kagan celebrated the groundbreaking for the Essex-Hudson Greenway today in Newark!

A great example of how advocacy works! 💪

This is going to be a transformative project, and not just because I contributed one shovel of dirt towards it! 😅

Governor Murphy still wants to widen a highway through Jersey City, something that will spew more carbon into the atmosphere. One day people will make the connection between the immediate emergency they're declaring and the longterm emergency they're enabling.

I wish the councilmember would use his platform to educate people on how the plan will drastically improve bus travel and not remove any parking, rather than leaving all that unsaid to stoke opposition.

Councilman Gilmore's flyers about the MLK/Ocean bus/bike lanes are sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt on Nextdoor and Instagram. The flyers & poll mention the costs to drivers ("turn MLK & Ocean into ONE-WAY Streets") but say absolutely nothing about the benefits to bus riders or cyclists.

Solomon proposes moving $1M from Jersey City surplus to Dept. of Infrastructure - Hudson County View Solomon is proposing moving $1M from the Jersey City surplus to the Dept. of Infrastructure as a budget amendment that will require a vote.

👀 Let's get it done. Potential for increasing Department of Infrastructure funding by a very much needed $1M: hudsoncountyview.com/solomon-prop...

Bike to the JC fireworks and festival tomorrow, July 4th, and we’ll watch your bike!

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Bike JC will again be offering our free, secure bike valet parking at the city’s big Independence Day celebrations at Exchange Place. 1/4

Major street safety redesign/bike improvements for Jersey City

🚨 On the September Council agenda, we’re putting forward a big redesign for major streets including bike lanes/safety:

• Summit/Baldwin (Wards C/D)
• MLK/Ocean Ave (Wards A/F)

The Turnpike already causes multiple air quality issues. Expanding it will inevitably make things worse, and due to particulate matter from tire and brake dust, EVs won't fix the problem.

Due to the heat advisory, the rally has been rescheduled to this Wednesday, June 25th.