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Exclusive | Cop Out: NYPD bosses evade tolls with department cars, lawsuit claims NYPD brass are using department cars to evade tolls while driving to work — even as thousands of furious commuters are forced to pay steep congestion-pricing fees, according to a whistleblower laws…

Water is indeed wet: A dirty NYPD cop parked his Benz at his Staten Island home and commuted to Manhattan in a department vehicle on job time, stealing $20,000 in tolls.

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Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.

This contributes to making that section of Broadway feel like a highway

Traffic congestion grew this year in U.S. cities, but NYC saw no increase Baltimore and Philadelphia saw the largest increases in traffic delays. Congestion pricing may have helped keep New York City traffic in check.

Five roads in New York City made INRIX’s list of the top 25 busiest corridors in 2024, but only one remained on this year’s list. “The congestion pricing program, no doubt, played a role,” Pishue said.

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Some bullshit I noticed today on Broadway at the Woodside Houses - natural, compelling pedestrian crossing but ..

NEW: In our letter to @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social, we're calling on the City Council to hold a hearing and vote on
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social's Delivery Protection Act.

This bill has 39 co-sponsors and will deliver safety for workers and every New Yorker.

We must pass Int. 1396 this session.

Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.

The Manhattan luxury apartment market surged in the month after Zohran Mamdani's election: “There is no Mamdani effect.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's amazing how Republicans are, to a man or woman, devoted to unnecessarily killing more Americans no matter the setting.

AVs will be safer than humans, they say. Safety is our top priority, they say.

Tech will not save us. Only accountability and better policy will.

I'm wondering the same thing about @sengianaris.bsky.social!

Don't you hate it when drivers block bus stops in Western Queens? Why would you vote to let them do it in Co-op City?

Reinvent Albany commends the new @mta.info Capital Dashboard powered by open data. This upgrade shows the MTA's progress on rebuilding and modernizing the subways, buses, and commuter railroads. Check out the top 4 things we like about it!
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In case anyone does not see how dishonest this is, it's just basic propaganda. You find someone somewhere (hopefully a pretty white woman!) that was legitimately harmed, and then you just constantly repeat that story until ppl associate it with ebikes. Eventually come to associate ebikes with danger

Footnote: this superfluous federal parking garage should have been an affordable housing development site years ago

OMG Ben so proud!

I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:

1. Mod or Prog

2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.

There's a post making the rounds here on bsky that holds up the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956 as an example. Keep in mind that over the following 40 years, bus service in Montgomery was cut 70%, and then eliminated entirely from 1997-2000. Service currently runs once an hour, 5:30am to 7:30pm.

Today, #Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 8002, which removes minimum parking mandates STATEWIDE for residential developments with less than 16 homes, and largely removes them for projects with more than 16 homes.

I’m grateful for all of the parking reformers who worked hard to pass this!

Tear it down!

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.

A city with a few hundred robotaxis is cool and futuristic, but with 100,000+ it'll be gridlocked and dangerous.

All the more reason for local leaders to adopt congestion pricing and automatic traffic enforcement ASAP.

Bring back Dumpling D'or!

Latest newsletter from a leading NYC housing market commentator begins: "Despite 'wealth flight' headlines about the next NYC Mayor Mamdani, current data show no evidence of a high-end exodus, and NYC’s luxury segment remains active."

A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.

WSJ Exclusive 1h ago Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat

Freedom!

the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"

Rick Cotton is stepping down from the Port Authority. We need to pressure Hochul to appoint someone who cares about transit.

@capntransit.bsky.social has been saying for years that transportation modes compete with each other, and driving always wins when all are treated equally.

Also that we've spent hundreds of millions on upgrades for LGA, Kennedy and Newark, that would have moved a lot more people if we'd spent them upgrading the trains!

Weird how McGreevey is copying Cuomo's playbook. I hope it fails for him the same way!

Weird how there’s always a transit funding shortfall, but never a roads funding shortfall! 🤔