Joshua Simoneau

#Cities / #PublicSpace tweets and RT are personal views

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

@ManhattanCB5 @ebottcher @MarkLevineNYC @NYC_DOT

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

🚨 5 Av barriers are safety concern. Fellow NYers moved some blocking a bus stop to allow elderly person and family to access bus. Clear path is also reduced to 5 ft sometimes, and during holiday season creates a congestion hazard. New Yorkers and its visitors deserve better.

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“You can make it here only because you can make it anywhere, but why would you ever go anywhere when you can make it here?” ⁦@vishaannyc⁩ ⁦@VitalCityNYC⁩ https://t.co/n6rx2Tj2GL

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“#POPS … often function as perfunctory vestibules to the rentable sf indoors. Here, the landscaping urges you to pass through and keep going into the sunset. The lumpy crystal mounds of architecture serve as a frame for the part that really counts.” https://t.co/mrmsmpk5TS

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

@nyc311 @KeithPowersNYC @ManhattanCB5 @NYCCouncil Right, I know. But, first this was not an emergency. Second, complainants through 311 for noise only work for reoccurring instances. This noise is only occurring this one night, work is now complete, so if I submit complaint, when DEP comes out to observe, there will be no noise.

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“Every year without congestion pricing is a year with more cars, more pollution, more asthma attacks. Whose job is it to tally those costs?” https://t.co/QMFRaciciW

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“Her Majesty’s big, steel tree-holder is not just an aesthetic disappointment, a gross misuse of carbon-hungry steel and aluminum … campaigners say that the QGC is sponsored by several major companies associated with deforestation” 😬 https://t.co/gcAO7c7Vsf

[Governors Island @Gov_Island]

Today, the Trust for @Gov_Island announced the next phase in the competition to anchor the Center for Climate Solutions on Governors Island. Four university-led teams will respond to an RFP released today as part of @NYCMayor's Blueprint for NYC’s Economic Recovery. (1/2)

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

Manhattan ♥️ https://t.co/w1hLXpwwdh

[NYC Planning @NYCPlanning]

Welcome @NYCPlanning’s new Director, and CPC Chair, Dan Garodnick, and Executive Director Edith Hsu-Chen! These two remarkably talented public servants will lead DCP’s work in building a more just, more affordable, and economically prosperous New York City.

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“…the city’s move to make open restaurants permanent is remarkable. It’s a rare opportunity to enhance the public realm. It’s also bittersweet. Design standards and sameness are a tag team.” https://t.co/sgFfQmpcVK

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

Hope @ericadamsfornyc and @MTA are taking notes…

[MayorWu @MayorWu]

THREAD: Today, I’m excited to put forward an appropriation order for $8M to make Boston’s 23, 28 & 29 bus lines fare-free for a 2-year period. Here’s how this program will lay the groundwork for accessible transit in our city:

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

Ridiculous. “Of the transportation-related funding, about 80 percent is directed to highways and road projects…”

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

Let’s do this, now! https://t.co/swj0mkKLue

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“Designing for long-term care of people and cities has to involve rethinking design practices and processes from within, alongside less hierarchical interactions with users and maintainers.” ⁦@LangeAlexandra⁩ https://t.co/jxZ9Sei5i7

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

“Though road reclamations reliably serve as public-relation challenges for cities, experience shows that residents adapt quickly to road changes and predictions of traffic nightmares and business failures do not come to pass.” ⁦@JSadikKhan⁩ ⁦ https://t.co/OQGTFve0EE

[Regional Plan @RegionalPlan]

Scenes like this should not exist in New York City. One more reason why we need to re-envision the right of way, make firm rules about which uses are appropriate for which streets, and *enforce* them.

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

Invoking safe street language as a means to curtail transit in the heart of one of the densest places in the country is infuriating. On the heals of shelving the bike lane on the same street nonetheless! ⁦@StreetsblogNYC⁩ ⁦@NYC_DOT⁩ https://t.co/iJFfpSDa0z

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

"fits & starts - bus/bike here, lack of enforcement there; traffic problems amok, but congestion pricing over the horizon — makes for a future that appears closer than before, but still one riddled with challenges. So much of it hinges on political will." https://t.co/4KWCjBFTV3

[Joshua Simoneau @joshua_simoneau]

"a growing number of educators, manufacturers and town planners argue, must stop striving for absolute safety & instead create challenging microcosms that teach children to navigate difficult situations even if the consequence is the odd broken bone." https://t.co/2XzJQj8zrN