Appreciate you not giving up the fight for citizen parking enforcement!

Do you think requiring training and a formal onboarding process, similar to the NYPD Auxiliary volunteers, would quel previous opposition to such a program?

Tunnel to Towers 5K. Placement there is really poorly though through all around, there's not going to be any space to queue!

Yes, agree that Powers's statement is clearer in suggesting additional engagement and agree it's unnecessarily redundant. I too remain skeptical.

At risk of appearing optimistic, one read of "The Administration commits to establishing a car-free 34th Street Busway ... following a robust and wide-ranging public engagement process." is to say given that this public engagement process has already been completed the admin is moving forward?

Does anyone know if the bus cameras can capture the plates of a car parked mid block in front of another vehicle? I suspect no. So as in @airlineflyer.net's video, the cars parked past the NYPD van likely are able to avoid a ticket.

Also an open question I have with the bus camera program: are cops getting tickets for their personal vehicles dismissed?

Trials?! But how will we know with complete certainty that there won't be any adverse consequences?!

Vitrol from the post is inevitable with or without community board review and regardless of whether the community boards (and/or dozens of speakers) support the projects. See nypost.com/2025/06/14/u...

Only "major transportation projects" require notification and review by community boards per city law § 19-101.2 Review of major transportation projects: codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyor...

There's no law that requires DOT to review open streets (and most, but not all, other street redesign projects) with community boards. Mamdani's administration can and should announce it as a citywide policy and not subject it to painstaking bad-faith debates.

I’m here for it?

This isn’t a crisis. It’s a long-overdue fix.

Make 34th a real busway. Keep NYC moving!

cc: @2avesag.as @nyc.streetsblog.org @transalt.org @ridersalliance.org @davecolon.bsky.social

The article quotes a handful of residents (and at least one non-resident: hello again, Andrew Fine, foe of all good progressive street projects) upset about traffic but not a single bus rider or supporter of the plan.

Plenty of us in the community rely on transit and want 34th Street to work better

Quality of life for who?

28,000 daily bus riders sit in traffic on 34th Street moving slower than walking pace. They live here too. They matter too.

Cool, let’s start with the *actual real world data* from the 14th St Busway:

🚌 Bus speeds +24%
💥 Crashes -42%
🚦Traffic impact on adjacent streets = negligible
💼 Business impact = zero

No study beats proof. We've already run the experiment just 20 blocks downtown. It worked!

Maybe a pilot on 12th or 13th street since they already have a large amount of space designated for cyclists?

Also probably not ideal for the a street with a bus route?

Have seen these 1-2 individuals at every street safety event/demonstration I've attended in the last several years. It's definitely unnerving, particularly when there's not a police presence.