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Cap'n Transit
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I share your concern, Eric, but a quick trip down that stretch of Fordham Road in Google Street View...
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Good point, Nobody
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yesterday
True enough, Heffron
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yesterday
Good seating is
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yesterday
The do-nothing NIMBYism from the New York Times article prompted me to write
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yesterday
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, whose district includes the Port Authority area, said his office had ...
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October 3
What's up with the Brooklyn Paper calling the Youth Advocates "cycling activists" but the community ...
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October 3
As
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October 3
That stretch of Ninth Avenue has always been a nightmare both for cyclists and pedestrians
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October 2
To limit someone's ability to choose among all qualified candidates is a truly drastic step, and one...
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October 2
Thanks for the shout-out
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October 1
Anyone hear Harry Reid and Kit Bond shilling for the bailout today? Apparently we need it so that p...
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October 1
The saddest thing is that the same commenter probably went home and ranted about "welfare mothers" g...
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October 1
I favor giving community boards more power (and more resources) but then expecting more of them
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October 1
Not to say that the approach - for pedestrians, cyclists and transit users - couldn't be much improv...
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October 1
The bus from the train station to the Capitol is really not bad
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October 1
The $30 million (not clear what budget stream it comes from)
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September 30
I agree with Ace
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September 29
You know, if there were a few people down there who had really big cars, then people who are going t...
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September 28
Davis,
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September 28
"Livable Streets Scorecard" Ooooh I like this idea
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September 27
Let's be honest here, the bikers disobey the laws far more than the cars do
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September 26
Curbed linked to this
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September 26
Of course no one wants to see Chinatown businesspeople lose money, Paul, but your argument contains ...
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September 26
Here is
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September 25
BTW, there do seem to be community boards that do well on livable streets issues, like CB2 and CB4 i...
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September 25
The marina has been closed for two years, and while I think most everyone wants to see it re-open, n...
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September 25
"I think
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September 25
In addition, plans to revive the now-shuttered Dyckman Marina, including three food venues with comb...
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September 25
Intro 38 is currently assigned to the Housing and Buildings committee, which is chaired by council m...
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September 24
With the city already on board with Select Bus Service, and with the MTA cutting capital projects, s...
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September 24
Unless any of you have problems like these, you won't know ( or care ) what people like us go throug...
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September 24
We are faced with the dire dilemma, forecast some years back by Gene Russianoff, of the system expan...
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September 24
Nice to see Ben, Pan and Gary here putting in their $2; very good points
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September 22
What about the Cross Island Parkway from the Clearview to the LIE, since the Clearview is there, the...
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September 22
Thanks for the link, Damien
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September 19
Ahoy, me hearties! Did ye know that Park(ing) day this year just happens to fall on the same day as...
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September 18
People, particularly politicians, have been vulnerable while traveling at least as far back as 1610,...
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September 18
I thought that the framing of the "Downside of Low-Cost Buses" article was so bizarre that I wrote
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September 18
Sounds like the attitude of much of the Riverdale machine that put him in office: selfish, arrogant,...
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September 17
In the next car, Biden told another passenger that “If we get elected, it will be the most train-fri...
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September 16
Can we get a "preview" button in the next upgrade? ;-)
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September 16
Responsibility for adequately funding the MTA should fall on those who benefit from its services
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September 16
Oh dear, Cap'n Transit, did I squash your prejudices and conspiracy theories? No, you were just kind...
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September 16
By the same token, most Brooklyn residents do not own bikes
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September 15
Cycling is inherently dangerous
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September 15
Anyone have a timeline for Phase 2?
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September 15
I saw the rider in question arrogantly riding fast on the sidewalk past pedestrians just a day or tw...
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September 12
When I read this article my first thought was, "they're going the wrong way!" Thanks for proving my...
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September 11
I don't think you drive in Manhattan much, Cap'n Uh, no, I don't
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September 11
But pedestrians routinely cross when it is flashing (and when it is a solid DON'T WALK) so does it m...
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September 11
Now if they could just get the drivers to get out and push those last 30 feet, all the problems coul...
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September 11
Even for someone in Flushing or other places on the subway lines, it's a real pain to get in between...
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September 11
The NY Times article on the ethics of double-parking - and the comments on it - is like something ou...
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September 10
I submit that Mr
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September 10
JP, I refer you to my
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September 10
BTW, what's Maio's stand on liveable streets issues?
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September 10
With the current dysfunction in Albany, I think that the Assembly Speaker and Senate Majority Leader...
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September 8
Kevin, please, say all you want against reckless bicycle riders
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September 5
One persons "sell-out" is another person's coalition builder
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August 30
I'm sorry, Paul, I must not be smart enough to parse the distinction between "cars" and "private aut...
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August 29
I do support the notion of personal mobility and that means cars are in the mix Please do us all a f...
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August 28
Rep
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August 27
Ms
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August 26
Mr
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August 25
Yes, Mark, but if you put your idea and Peter's together, then you have to drum up the political wil...
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August 25
I
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August 22
My mistake, Rlb; I haven't been following the Maryland issues in a while, and I wasn't aware that Er...
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August 22
FPT, I disagree
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August 22
The problems, county planners say, started in 2004, when Maryland highway officials conducting a fas...
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August 21
Yeah, they SHOULD make it available to bikes
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August 21
Low-income drivers as individuals save substantially if they do not have to pay tolls, but as a grou...
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August 20
Milwaukee's
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August 20
So Crapper, if all of Queens were well-served by subway, bus or light rail, to the point where every...
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August 19
I'm a big fan of tackling tasks that are politically feasible, but I'm disappointed that this does r...
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August 19
Please
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August 19
Got that? It's the chronically underfunded agency, not the lawmaking bodies lording over it, that la...
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August 19
And he's not the only city politician with this problem-- we really need to clean house
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August 18
Turns out I was wrong: even though Queens Crap features post after post about paved yards and street...
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August 18
Good point, Michael (although Hope Cohen
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August 18
Sadly, I'm afraid the horses may be out of the barn on this one
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August 17
Please, Mark
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August 17
There is a "meme" going around certain reactionary groups in Brooklyn and Queens which argues that c...
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August 15
I think the solution is to recognize that the problem fundamentally stems from street design that gi...
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August 15
Declined by 39%, I should note, from 1990 to 2003
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August 15
From the Times article: The report said that last year, city and state subsidies to the authority t...
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August 10
In a related matter, if bicyclists are to use NYC streets more fully, I think they should also be tr...
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August 9
I didn't see David Byrne, but I did see Mark Gorton! It was a lot of fun
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August 8
I've just written
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August 8
Yay! My comment appeared at #17
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