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The future liberals want:

In other news

Periodic reminder the City Council decided to make this illegal starting next year. It’s 58 degrees.

“We need bolder regulation to redirect the automobile industry towards smaller instead of bigger.” amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This Financial Times piece is the best examination of US crash deaths that I've seen in ages. The US is so bad at this: "Even after adjusting for distance driven, US fatality rates remain 2x the rich-world average." Here's a quick 🧵 to share insights (paywall). ft.com/content/9c936d…

If BEYONCÉ is willing to take High-Speed Rail, you can too. 🚅👑🐝

🚨 Big News, NYC! Congestion Pricing kicks off June 30. Get ready for safer streets, speedier buses, cleaner air, and more breathing room for New Yorkers. ➡️ Discover how congestion pricing will improve your daily life: transalt.org/reports-list/h…

Just to be clear - as the Council Member for Greenpoint - I voted against this measure because we should have better preserved the outdoor dining program.

Hey, remember when car/oil/sprawl companies and oil nation autocrats lobbied & bribed governments to create car dependent cities & suburbs, and once we became car dependent, WE became the biggest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, cheap gas, and free parking?

Congestion pricing was set to begin today, Sunday, June 30, 2024, at 12:01am. But Governor Kathy Hochul killed it in the eleventh hour, putting the program on an indefinite pause and leaving New Yorkers in the lurch. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/30/all…

The US used to have some of the most beautiful cities in the world. They were walkable and well served by electric transit. So much of that was destroyed to make it easy to drive. They were turned from places to be and go to, to places to drive through. We can restore our cities.

A tale of two parking spots

Photo from Todd Heisler of The New York Times.

The city healed.