NYer. Hey NYC! Start taking state and local elections seriously. ‘Progressivism,’ bike zealots, and app-funded lobbyists are making the city unlivable.
Bingo! And this is what is the matter with city of yes in NYC. It’s unleashes the real estate barons and who are largely responsible for the current affordable housing crisis. Some smart people are totally naïve, and believing filtering (‘trickle down’) will happen. We will end up with more luxury condos and overseas buyers. With poor people pushed out.
@VickieforNYC You are so right! A con artist extraordinaire to say the least. How can so many intelligent people be so gullible?
It’s amazing… Another one of those ‘only in NYC’ kinds of things, alas.
@bfurnas It would be so great to put any additional NYC bike infrastructure to a referendum vote and have the citizens/voters/taxpayers decide. The result would very likely be a wake up call to bike advocates.
@nycpix All exactly true. But why aren’t we stopping this at the ballot box? If we don’t vote for people who will stop the madness, we are partially to blame.
@Braydenboiiii03 100% true! That moment passed like maybe 5 years ago. The joke is on the ‘celebrities’ who don’t realize it yet. And still acting like everyone cares soooo much haha.
@bfurnas I’m not a NY Post fan, but you just don’t get it.
Streets (and sidewalks) are not retail selling floors nor restaurant service areas.
They are for people to walk, skate, bike, or drive to get from place to place. Period.
@dmtrubman Of all the horrible ideas I’ve read on here recently, this one takes the cake.
Independence mall should remain as it is. Period.
Cities need as much green space as possible. They become unlivable when over built.
@StreetsblogNYC A vast number of Council Speaker Adams constituents support her plan.
Transplant biker bros, their allies, and app-funded lobbying organizations don’t like it. But they aren’t the majority of NYC voters.
@enforcelawsNYC@TransAlt How do we fund a bigger and more powerful lobbying machine than ‘TransAlt’? It needs to happen pronto. They should be buried by a common sense voice against their app-funded nonsense.
@Boenau Wake up. All of society depends on roads. They are used for far more than private auto travel. Trucks and all commodities (the food you eat) travel over them. Of course broader society should support them.
@StreetsblogNYC The numbers seem highly suspect and very contrary to what I observe where I live inside the congestion zone. The restaurant industry will speak up soon, I am sure. Weekend business at countless places has been killed. All you need to do is look in the window to see.
@SocTransitLover@mistercourts @CompletedStreet Laughable statement in a place like NYC where there are bike lanes everywhere now. And public transit everywhere. It’s much easy to bike or take the subway in New York, but people choose to spend excessive amounts of money because they like to ride in cars.
@BenMillerise Trying to compare secondary cities like Austin (or Minneapolis or Nashville, etc.) to NYC and Cali is overly simplistic. It’s easy to build too much housing in a place like Austin, where not that many people want to live. And where the cost of living (for everything) is low.
@SocTransitLover@mistercourts @CompletedStreet Go after Uber and Lyft first. Let’s see how the streets change (traffic reduces). If more needs to happen, then keep going.