my firm belief is that if you have a first name like "Inna" it means your last name must be legally changed to "Minute"

well the subject ISNT crashes - the issue as detailed in this article is peoples behavior... and the fact that even in a place that has no cars people cant seem to regulate their interactions between biking walking running or just standing still.

so even in a place where there are no cars

people are miserable about walking biking and running ....

maybe the problem isnt cars .....

no it IS most definitely a race thing - maybe not for you but certainly for the longtime residents of Harlem who wont benefit at all by getting a bunch of apts that they cant afford ( when the avg neighborhood income is something like 65K /year ) nor qualify to live in ( because the qualification is way beneath what a person let alone a family can actually afford ) if the rents start out at 2500 and up a month for a 1 BR ...which is exactly is the case with a lot of these developed properties that offer "set aside" apts.

they arent interested in courting people who live in the neighborhood or families ( otherwise they wouldnt just offer set aside apts that only go up to 1BR ) they are interested in renting to some high end earner and turning Harlem into a theme park ride ....

no thanks .

it should be noted that the people who are criticizing this deal dont even LIVE in jordans district - and im sure they dont talk to the people that live there or interact with them in any meaningful way ....

so it shouldnt be lost : its a bit of irony of so called progressives who recognize the historic disregard for black and brown peoples voices to be acknowledged doing the shit the say are against and disregarding the voice of the representative of black and brown people....

vanity is a sweet wine but hypocrisy is vintage....

well sometimes not so much an idiot

a lot of cops dont like writing tickets - a lot write tickets because they are commanded to write - so sometimes i have found they will fuck the ticket up -

its always advised that you fight your ticket and you will find often that the time ( AM instead of PM ) or color or year or even a letter is not clearly written on the ticket or even the charge is wrong -( like your ticket that said no standing but really it was for no parking )

the ticket is a charging document and EACH fact has to be correct ( especially for moving violations like seatbelts or redlight or speeding tickets ) for you to be charged and found guilty ...

its just distressing to see some people in this city think that people AUGHT to get tickets as a matter of course of living in the city- this is clearly the wrong attitude to have about the purposes of summonses. the punishment of the citizenry should not be a revenue stream for the city to try to make as much as possible off of - it just results in a toxic regard to following the rules to where people will then be more concerned with avoiding following the rules rather than why they should abide by them in the first place.

i was so happy when i got a membership there

and that night I saw Akira in the movie right on 8th st.

for the back end to realy COUNT as being in the "cross walk" it has to actually have the rear wheels in the cross walk space ... otherwise it doesnt count - it occurs in traffic court all the time -

you wouldnt know it unless you actually have to fight it

plus the ticket has to be for the violation thats actually stated - so even if she was in the crosswalk - the ticket is for a hydrant -

as a result its the ticket is invalid since the fact that there isnt a hydrant there means the actual facts of the violation are incorrect.

reading some of the comments here i see what MalcomX was talking about - white liberals are terrible "allies" for black neighborhoods

uhhh a home ISNT a commodity - its supposed to be an asset and increase in value...... - its not supposed to be anything like a car....

ok but its not like the developer CANT develop somewhere else...so there is a reason he wants to develop there and in order to do so it means a trade ....

and its not NIMBYISM to make a demand for what you want for your neighborhood and the needs of its constituents - just because youd prefer " some" over nothing doesnt mean that that standard is good for the neigborhood she represents ...

well if the people who she represents dont seem to think that way.... and theres no indication that they do

again its kind of hypocritical for people from OUTSIDE of the neighborhood she represents to insist they know better whats good than what she/ community wants and declare its NIMBYISM ....

someone from outside making decisions about infrastructure and saying " too bad this is how it is its for everyones benefit " that is the very epitome of why Robert Moses was a dick....

not for nothing but if ppl have a home and its value will be impacted negatively by some aspect of development its bullshit to insist that ppl should just accept that situation.

you know i have been saying this for years -

i dont understand people getting on bikes or running at NIGHT and wearing black or dark clothing - you cannot be seen well and thats in CLEAR weather ...let alone in something like rain which makes you all but invisible beyond 20 feet ....

its like begging for a darwin award...

reduce demand for people who think like this is more likely the result.....

a lot of this attitude is a result of the former DOT comissioner janette sadik-kahn

pretty much she was the incubator of the "ban cars" mentality that is so pervasive ( and IMO) so poisonous to any discourse - this is from a NYT article back in 2011 -

“She has an absolute certainty that she’s correct,” said Lewis A. Fidler, a council member from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, who has clashed with Ms.Sadik-Khan over bicycle lanes. “I guess it’s nice to go through life with that kind of certainty, but I don’t know if it’s appropriate in government.”

a lot of posters about this issue go on about Robert Moses and how much of an asshole he was with forcing his vision about how the city should be engineered- ironically those same people that curse his name ignore their own similar attitude about bikes and car ownership here in NYC because they know whats best for NYC ....just like he used to say.

but a lot of the street design for the last 10 years has been to create more congestion 1- as a part of generating revenue via a toll 2- to supposedly make things safer for pedestrians by slowing cars down and of course if you slow down the cars then you will have congestion

it is - and you are right ....

"Here’s where Uber and Lyft come in, and the local skirmish potentially takes a more broadly relevant twist. Meeker Ave Neighbors, the group behind the petition to halt the refurbishment, learned that Transportation Alternatives (TA), the muscular, decades-old bike lane advocacy group behind the plan, accepted a combined $125,000 from Uber and Lyft in 2020, along with donations from Revel, Bird, and Lime.

TA has undeniably facilitated otherwise-unavailable environmentally friendly transport throughout the city. It pushed the city to install the nation’s first protected bike lanes, lower the speed limit, and introduce Vision Zero, a plan to reduce traffic injuries (also a cornerstone of the de Blasio administration’s platform). It’s hard to argue with reducing traffic; the Brooklyn Queens Expressway running over the parking area is a backed-up exhaust vent that’s sickened nearby residents with some of the highest asthma rates in the city. Last year, New York City added the equivalent of 56.5 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. We don’t have to reiterate that a case for cars over subways and bikes is a case for the end of life on Earth.

But it’s unclear why TA chooses to side with corporations whose tens of thousands of vehicles congest the streets and spend, on average, a third of their time idling and waiting for rides. It’s not the first transit group to do so; bike activists from national groups, Denver, San Francisco, and the UK have all taken money from rideshare companies. One former TA organizer who took a job at Lyft wrote, in self-defense, that the company “has pledged to support protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety infrastructure even when it does not benefit the bottom-line.”

https://gizmodo.com/a-small-war-over-bike-lanes-may-be-an-uber-and-lyft-con-1847795365

there are absolutely people paid to promote and spam threads here as part of the larger overall push for "bikes" and "congestion pricing " and leave the rest of the populace at the mercy of Uber and Lyft, to be the only alternative for people who cant use a bike and arent anywhere near (useful) transportation.

there is a poster here that REGULARLY spams this reddit and the other NYC reddit with a form letter to be sent to promote a bounty program for people to get paid for tickets written against cars.

it absolutely is organized.

wait who are you to say what someone should have a "right" to do ???

and im pretty sure you make yourself availible to using a 2 ton box or benefit FROM those 2 ton boxes - LIRR isnt here to replace cars

if youre getting "taxed an obscene amount "....... drivers are too

and i guarantee youre not paying anything close to what people pay in the outlaying counties pay in property taxes - the same people who are needed to come into the city to work and buy stuff here...

uhh how is it a damning statistic

there are millions of car drivers in the city - using cars and trucks

there is hardly the same number of people with guns using them

so really out of millions only 250plus isnt very bad - hell even 250 in 100's of thousands isnt bad....

or maybe she just shouldnt have been in the lane with cars and trucks ....

the traffic is atrocious because the traffic planner(s) are making formerly wide avenues narrower which naturally causes congestion

justifying the "need" for "congestion pricing..."

well the reason you have this city is because a bunch of people who DO have walkable wide sidewalks dont wanna be there - they wanna be here -

they are from places where you need a car to get around and they will drive in their car to get here for work or for play - nyc wouldnt be NYC if its wasnt for those people in areas where they predominantly have cars - its because of those "car people " we have the prosperity here because they want to come and work and be entertained here and live close enough to get here by car.

but without the cars

you wont have cities...