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🚨 Sending out a call for help. Do you like outdoor dining? Want it year-round? There's still time to testify in support at today's City Council hearing. The anti-outdoor dining cranks are out in full force.

Sign up here and pick the 10am on Transportation & Infrastructure

council.nyc.gov/testify/

Five ✨Low Traffic Neighborhoods✨ in each borough by 2023 would limit cars using local streets as shortcuts, and help reach several key goals in the Streets Plan: safer, more accessible streets for pedestrians and cyclists. 🚶🏻‍♂️🚴🏾‍♀️

We’re thrilled to hear Commissioner Mike Flynn confirm that @nyc-dot.bsky.social supports Int 655 to make outdoor dining year-round! @cmrestler.bsky.social @speakermenin.bsky.social let’s get this passed asap before the new season begins

Support Year Round Outdoor Dining - Open Plans The Open Restaurants program revealed a simple truth during the COVID pandemic: our curb lane is a valuable, dynamic public space that can support local businesses and create opportunities for New Yor...

📢 We urge our leaders to make the right decision and bring back year-round outdoor dining once and for all.
👉🏼 Show your support for year-round outdoor dining by sending a letter: action.openplans.org/support-year...

A Bonanza of School Streets Resources for you to use! — Streetfilms As you know we are big on wanting school streets in every city, all over the world. We have also done the most ambitious documenting with many popular films that are used worldwide to advocate for the...

School streets need to be a major initiative in the @mayor.nyc.gov Mamdani Administration. @nyc-dot.bsky.social

So my latest blog post has for the very 1st time EVERY Streetfilm on school streets embedded in one place! PLUS: bonus photos. It's a great resource.

www.streetfilms.org/featured/sch...

How Mayor Mamdani Can Create a More Livable City, with Ben Furnas & Sara Lind

Our @saraklind.bsky.social joined the Max Politics podcast to talk about how @mayor.nyc.gov can create a more livable city, starting with School Streets!
🎧 Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UUN7RaA3DTJW5Ru9h4G6H

Ben Max, who refuses to post on BlueSky where his audience is but stays on X where he gets no engagement, has a new podcast out with @bfurnas.bsky.social and @saraklind.bsky.social. Well worth a listen.

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/gotham-gazet...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Have you checked out The Car-Free Carolers rendition of "Zohran, Zohran, Zohran"? (To the tune "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel")

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @openplans.org

🎵🎶🎵🎼
But can he make it happen
He cannot fail us now 🎵
We need so many busways
He better make us proud 🎶

We are delighted that our co-executive director @saraklind.bsky.social has been named to the transportation committee of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition team!!

Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.

"I'm not throwing cold water on any plans, but I just met with the mayor [elect] and we're having really important collegial conversations about his agenda, and so I don't want to disclose anything," the Governor told Streetsblog's Austin Jefferson.

Monday's Headlines: Permanent Paseo Edition - Streetsblog New York City We journeyed to Jackson Heights to celebrate a milestone in the life of the 34th Avenue open street. Plus other news.

Paseo Park @nyc.streetsblog.org features my video this morning!

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/17/m...

Time to pass NYC Council Intro 1138 to bring #daylighting to NYC's streets. Join @openplans.org @transalt.org @familiesforsafestreets.org @shahanafrombk.bsky.social @saraklind.bsky.social @jacksonchabot.bsky.social @cmjuliewon.bsky.social

Here's our fun promo!

TODAY: City Hall Steps at 1:30 pm!

NYC Is Losing the War on Cars New Yorkers are driving a lot more—plus some links to rev up your Wednesday.

How to incentivize the 34% who drive (and make up 80% of NYC's traffic) to join the 65% who get around car-free?

@openplans.org's @saraklind.bsky.social says "Bus Rapid Transit would be a huge game changer in terms of getting people out of cars," — and we agree! hellgatenyc.com/nyc-is-losin...

Cyclist: Cop Pulled a Taser During Summons Chase - Streetsblog New York City In a dramatic escalation of the NYPD's criminal crackdown on bike riders, a police officer pulled a stun gun while chasing a cyclist for allegedly running a red light on a regular bike.

Every cyclist in the city should be at tonight's 6 pm rally against NYPD's policy of criminalizing minor traffic infractions — because you could be the next victim of police overreach or lethal force. @kevinduggan.bsky.social has a BLOCKBUSTER story: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30/c...

Congestion relief works – the data proves it.

The city’s leaders should stand with working New Yorkers and stand up to Washington. We can’t let out-of-touch politicians roll back the progress we’ve made.

This is a great article that lays out some of the solutions to reducing deaths and serious injuries. Part of the solution: just reducing driving overall.

I'm excited to share more soon about the work we're doing at @openplans.org on Low Traffic Neighborhoods and VMT. More to come!

What’s Behind the Rise in Serious Injuries on New York City’s Streets? Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers all saw elevated injury rates in the last three years, despite the city’s decade-long commitment to Vision Zero safety reforms.

"The faster a car is going, the more likely they are to kill or injure someone, but getting the worst of the worst drivers off the road... is a good policy solution.” - @saraklind.bsky.social
Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"Abundance" is all over the headlines lately. But in New York, it's not just a buzzword—it's a movement. 🗽

Here are 7 leaders and organizations powering the Abundance Agenda in our city and state—and how you can get involved. 👇

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From the MicromobilityNYC community on Reddit: Another victim of the Council's all-consuming Parking obsession: Outdoor Dining. Explore this post and more from the MicromobilityNYC community

Our co-executive director @saraklind.bsky.social talked with Reddit’s Micromobility NYC about outdoor dining and how the program could be improved. "We told them over and over again that what they were doing was going to ruin the program... and it has." Listen more: www.reddit.com/r/Micromobil...

When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.

Opponents of outdoor dining: it’s a giveaway of public space!

Also opponents of outdoor dining: give me more free parking on public space!!

Sidewalk congestion from sidewalk cafes is real. Here’s a solution: make roadway dining easier and widen sidewalks. Restaurants can flourish and people can walk - that’s much better than parking!

For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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this is basically just a big plan to impoverish the united states

He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world.

And Putin keeps smiling every single day.

As a person, I agree, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

Bike lanes everywhere for safety!! Now!!

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.

Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!

NO.

Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.

PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.

This is also about autism.

He’s sending people to concentration camps. A key feature of a concentration camp is that people don’t get trials before they are sent there.