Ryan Russo

Great and safe streets, realized not imagined. Principal at Together Projects. First Director of @OakDOT, former Deputy Commissioner @NYC_DOT, Daddy

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

10 Years Ago on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend our team at @NYC_DOT closed Broadway to traffic to create pedestrian plazas at Times and Herald Square. Reflecting on this 10 years later I have 10 lessons that can inform our work making great streets for great cities today.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@KnicksMuse Nope. It’s a fumble and fumbling doesn’t end a dribble.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

Now it's 15 years! NYC is lucky to still have the likes of Sean Quinn and Josh Benson making its streets better. And each year its harder and harder to imagine the way it was before plazas!

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

10 Years Ago on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend our team at @NYC_DOT closed Broadway to traffic to create pedestrian plazas at Times and Herald Square. Reflecting on this 10 years later I have 10 lessons that can inform our work making great streets for great cities today.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@RepJoshG Thoughtful leadership would recognize the benefits that are on the way for New Jerseyans, whether they save time driving or benefit from better transit.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@stef_kon_one @henrygrabar In 1970 city air was filled with smog and lead. The air is orders of magnitude cleaner.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@henrygrabar Later it received a curb bus lane. Then more recently the exterior red bus lane. And now there is this overhead…should change the balance!

[The Parking Professional @kerbyside]

🚨 AB 1082 🚨 is a well intentioned bill that will be a total disaster for roadway safety in CA.

You think parking in bike lanes and bus stops is bad today?

Wait until there are ZERO consequences. For this or ANY other parking violation. @NancySkinnerCA please vote NO 1/9

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@MikeLydon @ParkToPark103 @OpenPlans @pfrishauf Thanks for taking the time to share this @MikeLydon. Will be useful to my planning students who thinking about how to make it easier to get projects like this done.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@MikeLydon Exciting! I have some stories from taking the original “Before and After” photos from the Manhattan Bridge bike path in 2007. When it’s done it would be fun to work with @NYC_DOT on taking the “after” photo for the capital project.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jonorcutt ICYMI: 2/2

Vehicles are making safer turns as well; the rate of crossing the double yellow line while turning has dropped by 78.9% for locations that have a treatment extending to the stop bar and 100% for locations that have a treatment extending all the way to the crosswalk.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jonorcutt ICYMI:
Speed Reduction
Median left turn speeds have decreased by 54.3%
Average left turn speeds have decreased by 52.6%
85th percentile left turn speeds have decreased by 59.8%
Maximum left turn speeds have decreased by 37.7%
Median right turn speeds have decreased by 32.7%
1/2

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jonorcutt Do you have the same critique about the findings of reduction in pedestrian injuries from protected bike lanes? And how do you debunk the 50% reduction in turning speeds?

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jonorcutt Also seems to be helping in Chicago

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jonorcutt Total joke or cutting turning speeds in half and reducing severe injuries to pedestrians by 33%, slightly hiring than the reduction that comes from protected bike lanes? (NYC data) https://t.co/cz4VwnEcjh

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@IDoTheThinking Tomorrow is a holiday. For DSNY it’s a big one (lots of Italian Americans). So no trash collection tomorrow. Wait one more night.

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

+1. Hoping other leaders in CA step in and make this right.

[tamika butler is @tamikabutler.bsky.social @TamikaButler]

One thing I'm always going to do is stand with JWW. One of the realest and always there when you need a true advocate, friend, and leader.

Caltrans official says she was demoted for objecting to highway expansion https://t.co/2kUR9uKttc via @politico

[Jim Charlier @TheCharlier]

We've fallen down a rabbit hole into a wonderland where most fire engine calls are in response to traffic crashes, our fire engines are too big to operate anywhere other than on wide streets and most car crashes occur because our streets are too wide.

https://t.co/tgCPLHM9vb

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@jmassengale @mmuelle286 @GVSHP @NYCMayor @NYCHousing @DeborahJGlick @SaveNYCNow @filmsbyAmy @scdemark @ChintzAge Residential neighborhood? The site is surrounded by commercial buildings and a high school. It’s mixed use here at a minimum. But arguably commercial given the location in Hudson St along the classic advertising office corridor.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Helpful overview

https://t.co/vworoRpAg0

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

@Streetfilms @OpenPlans Exciting! https://t.co/coQntRpBPO

[Ryan Russo @TogetherRyan]

10 Years Ago on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend our team at @NYC_DOT closed Broadway to traffic to create pedestrian plazas at Times and Herald Square. Reflecting on this 10 years later I have 10 lessons that can inform our work making great streets for great cities today.