Em Friedenberg

research on people + streets at @transalt, all opinions my own.

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

Cars on our roads are getting way bigger.

It’s not because consumers demand tanks – there are 3 federal incentives that have pushed Americans to buy megatrucks and automakers to stop making anything else.

From @transalt's #VisionZeroCities Journal 🧵👇

https://t.co/tHAVbgw5L3

[Teamsters Local 804 @804_local]

Amazon claims it will stop delivering in New York City if they have to take responsibility for AMAZON DRIVERS

Obviously, they are lying

What will Amazon do instead of delivering in NYC? Take up pickleball? backpack in Europe?

Stop the bs & Pass the DELIVERY PROTECTION ACT!!

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

This was the second child killed by a turning school bus in Brooklyn this year — we just keep letting it happen.

We need to
- Slow down every street to 20mph
- Install speed limiters in all big vehicles
- Get low-visibility vehicles off our streets
- Daylight every intersection

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I am devastated by the loss of a
9-year-old boy struck this morning while crossing the street in Williamsburg.

My heart is with his family and loved ones as they endure this tragic loss.

Children should be safe walking around our city, and this horrific road death is a painful reminder that we must continue to use every tool available to make our streets safe for all New Yorkers.

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

Stop Super Speeders is on the front page of the New York Times today.

Call Assembly Speaker Heastie's office again — let him know you saw the Times story, and tell him to put Stop Super Speeders in the state budget:

518-455-3791

[Jessie Singer @JessieSingerNYC]

GET IN NEW YORK WE'RE CLOGGING CARL HEASTIE'S PHONE LINE

Speaker Heastie is standing in the way of a bill that would force recidivist speeding drivers to slow down. Call him and tell him you want the Stop Super Speeders bill in the budget.

518-455-3791

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

If you’re speeding over and over again, it’s not a mistake. You’re making our streets dangerous.

I’ve got a plan to crack down on super-speeders and make New York City safer.

Let’s get it done.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

There is nothing more important than keeping New Yorkers safe, and reining in super speeders will save lives.

I am proud to support efforts in Albany to enable new tools like Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) in our fight for safe streets.

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

NEW: Nearly one in three super speeders (30.4%) caught speeding in New York City school zones have out-of-state plates.

Drivers from New Jersey and Pennsylvania committed the most violations in NYC, with tens of thousands of school zone speed camera violations from each state.

[Families For Safe Streets @NYC_SafeStreets]

From the @NYDailyNews, calling on @NYSA_Majority to pass the #StopSuperSpeeders Act:

"Those who are caught routinely speeding in school zones are not any less dangerous than those who drive drunk...That’s why the legislation has such broad support"

[Jessie Singer @JessieSingerNYC]

I don’t know what crazier: that this cop isn’t even the worst super speeder in New York or that Assembly Speaker Heastie is blocking legislation that could protect us from them all.

Call Speaker Heastie. Tell him you want the Stop Super Speeders bill in this budget: 518-455-3791

[Antonio Reynoso @BKBPReynoso]

547 speeding tickets is absolutely mind-boggling. Any driver with this many tickets is a menace to public safety. This officer's license must be revoked before tragedy strikes.

Yet another example of why Albany must pass the Stop Super Speeders Act now.

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

my $240/year citi bike membership briefly lapsed and i got the great pleasure of paying $9 for an 8-minute ride.

[Lincoln Restler @LincolnRestler]

A Citi Bike ride shouldn’t cost a penny more than a subway or bus ride. We’ve got a bill to cap e-bike fees at $3 and end Citi Bike-flation.

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

This week's biggest loser according to @CityAndStateNY's poll? Super speeder James Giovansanti.

Assembly Speaker Heastie could slow him down — and the thousands of other super speeders like him.

But Heastie's reportedly blocking Stop Super Speeders from the state budget.

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

We could be keeping people who repeatedly speed from going over the speed limit — saving them money and preventing them from losing their car entirely on top of saving lives.

Requiring ISA for super speeders is as common-sense as it gets. So why isn't Albany passing this bill?

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

It makes no sense that Speaker Heastie may be trying to kill a bill that would finally slow down New York's repeat reckless drivers. But according to yesterday’s reporting in @HellGateNY, that’s exactly what’s happening.

https://t.co/uCB47lzCxI

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

The @ACLU and @policingproject just put out a report:
Safe Roads for All — Evidence-Based Strategies for Keeping Our Roadways Safe

The #1 technological solution they recommend? Intelligent Speed Assistance.

Albany needs to pass Stop Super Speeders now.

[Council Member Chi Ossé @CMChiOsse]

New Yorkers deserve better than a private, for-profit monopoly that answers to its shareholders, and not the public. We need a grid that works for us starting with public power.

Read our op-ed with @CMShahanaHanif and @CMSandyNurse in the @NYDailyNews.

https://t.co/kfCNsUehiu

[emily lipstein @emily_lip]

New high score of *22* vehicles illegally double-parked in the bike lane on Bedford Avenue on Tuesday evening (6pm).

@NYCMayor @LincolnRestler @OsseChi do something before someone is killed.

[Patrick Cleary @PatrickDCleary]

How many bus stops are blocked by parked cars and deliveries at any given moment?

I looked at every bus stop in Manhattan on street view to produce an estimate.

It turns out it's 19% – practically 1 in 5.

https://t.co/ag3jqDekf1

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

@KathyParkPrice Aw thanks Kathy! (queen of visuals)

[Em Friedenberg @emfriedenberg]

my favorite time of year: getting to put together the map of the hellish drivers of NYC!

this year with a bonus report about how they're mostly driving new luxury cars!

[Transportation Alternatives @TransAlt]

NEW: Last year, the top 10 super speeders covered such an expansive swath of New York City with their reckless driving that more than 2.5 million New Yorkers live within a 5-minute walk of an intersection that just these 10 drivers were caught blasting through.

[Lincoln Restler @LincolnRestler]

The solution is simple: pass my bill to abolish placards.

When a city worker is driving a city vehicle on city business - there should be relaxed parking policies.

But why should city workers be allowed to park their personal vehicles illegally? It’s absurd.