Rob Bellinger<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> just published a piece on a new class action lawsuit in federal court against the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYPD</span></a>, for its well-documented practice of ticketing cyclists who follow the leading pedestrian interval or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LPI</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> cyclists have been instructed BY LAW to do this since 2019, but cops continue ticketing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> — and now summonsing them to criminal court — for this LEGAL and SAFE behvaior.</p><p>The attorney is seeking additional plaintiffs to join the case.</p><p>(11/n)</p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/12/cyclist-launches-class-action-suit-for-bogus-nypd-red-light-tickets" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/12</span><span class="invisible">/cyclist-launches-class-action-suit-for-bogus-nypd-red-light-tickets</span></a></p>
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Rob Bellinger<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> is actively seeking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> who have been summonsed to criminal court. They have made flyers in multiple languages but right now they are only on IG (sorry)</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/streetsblognyc/p/DJXN6HdoExW/?img_index=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/streetsblognyc/p</span><span class="invisible">/DJXN6HdoExW/?img_index=1</span></a></p><p>9/n</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p>As chronicled by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a>, those offenses include:<br>*reckless driving<br>*operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs<br>*driving the wrong way<br>*disobeying a red light<br>*failure to stop at a stop sign.</p><p>The police say this is in response to 311 complaints, but decline to cite data.</p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/policy-change-nypd-will-write-criminal-summonses-not-traffic-tickets-for-cyclists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02</span><span class="invisible">/policy-change-nypd-will-write-criminal-summonses-not-traffic-tickets-for-cyclists</span></a></p><p>(2/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a></p>
Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:<p>Congestion Clown Car!</p><blockquote><p><strong>Disorder in the Court: U.S. DOT Lawyers Upload Memo Admitting Their Congestion Pricing Case is Weak</strong></p><p>Attorneys for the Federal Highway Administration, seemingly by mistake, uploaded an internal legal strategy memo into the record of the MTA's lawsuit against U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over his illegal order to end congestion pricing — and the memo discussed how difficult it will be for Duffy to win.</p><p>Instead of filing documents that were expected to be part of Duffy's defense for withdrawing approval for congestion pricing, lawyers instead uploaded an email sent on April 11 from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dominika Tarczynska, David Farber and Christine Poscablo discussing the weaknesses in the federal case and charting a different, but no more guaranteed way, to end the toll.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/disorder-in-the-court-u-s-dot-lawyers-upload-memo-admitting-their-congestion-pricing-case-is-weak" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24</span><span class="invisible">/disorder-in-the-court-u-s-dot-lawyers-upload-memo-admitting-their-congestion-pricing-case-is-weak</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CongestionPricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CongestionPricing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transit</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p>"In the one year since the agency added a protected bike lane to Third Avenue in Manhattan, total injuries have dropped by 33 percent — and injuries to drivers and other car occupants have dropped by 43 percent."</p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/safety-first-on-third-dot-numbers-show-a-roadway-safer-for-all-users" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19</span><span class="invisible">/safety-first-on-third-dot-numbers-show-a-roadway-safer-for-all-users</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/streetsblognyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streetsblognyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urbanists.social/@streetsblogmass" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>streetsblogmass</span></a></span> Thanks for posting this information. I'm glad we can get <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congestionpricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congestionpricing</span></a> updates from the Mass branch, as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> still doesn't seem interested in the Fediverse 🙃 .</p>
NYC Glue<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars" class="u-url mention">@<span>TheWarOnCars</span></a></span> Winnepeg bike community has its own discord server. "Tired of the banter on X". <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GershKuntzman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GershKuntzman</span></a></p>
Rob BellingerExtreme Traffic Violence
Rob Bellinger<p>Some real zingers in this piece on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Houston</span></a></p><p>"Here’s the key: state and federal governments will pay cities all day and every day to make bad financial decisions and transactions that are not in the broad financial interest of their own residents. They have lots of programs to do this, highway expansions being just one of them."</p><p>Also....I guess the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StrongTowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrongTowns</span></a> people, like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> people, are still waiting for last call at the N*zi bar.</p><p><a href="https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4/1/heres-the-real-reason-houston-is-going-broke" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4</span><span class="invisible">/1/heres-the-real-reason-houston-is-going-broke</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urbanists.social/@streetsblogmass" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>streetsblogmass</span></a></span> Congrats. What will it take for your colleagues at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> to do the same?</p>
Rob Bellinger<p>I dare <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> to produce an article without an embedded xeet</p>
Rob Bellinger<p>Adams caves and kills (part of) another people-first DOT project. Now southbound <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> will have to cross vehicular traffic to then cross the sharrow death zone of lower Ashland, before dealing with the ice cream trucks that always block the plaza at Atlantic.</p><p>This is how we end up with nonsensical infrastructure that forces unnecessary conflicts. It's why experienced bikers ride in the street. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/streetsblognyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streetsblognyc</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/safety-last-city-confirms-that-ashland-place-will-remain-dangerous-bowing-to-local-corporate-interest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06</span><span class="invisible">/safety-last-city-confirms-that-ashland-place-will-remain-dangerous-bowing-to-local-corporate-interest</span></a></p>
Most Normal Amtrak Rider :vm:<p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/08/11/wire-creator-and-nyc-camera-foe-david-simon-has-received-16-school-zone-speeding-tickets-in-his-beloved-baltimore" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/08/11</span><span class="invisible">/wire-creator-and-nyc-camera-foe-david-simon-has-received-16-school-zone-speeding-tickets-in-his-beloved-baltimore</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/DavidSimon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidSimon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SpeedCameras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeedCameras</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baltimore</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p>The illegal mini-motorcycle situation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a> is fully out of control. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> picked up this story from Reddit about a horrific crash with FIVE injured, at least one severely, on the Manhattan Bridge last night.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/safestreets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safestreets</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/27/horrific-crash-on-manhattan-bridge-bike-path-underscores-moped-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/27</span><span class="invisible">/horrific-crash-on-manhattan-bridge-bike-path-underscores-moped-crisis</span></a></p>
NYC Glue<p>My ONLY reason to go to Twitter is to see what <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GershKuntsman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GershKuntsman</span></a> is up to with his <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CriminalMischief" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalMischief</span></a> . I just wish he'd start posting here with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StreetsBlogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetsBlogNYC</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bikenyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bikenyc</span></a></p>
Rob Bellinger<p>New article from too-cool-for-Fediverse <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StreetsblogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetsblogNYC</span></a> on the "interagency task force" studying how to better manage the rollout of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ebikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ebikes</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/micromobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>micromobility</span></a> devices, using the now-established taxonomy.</p><p><a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/01/18/task-farce-delta-city-hall-also-has-its-own-electric-micromobility-panel/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/01/18</span><span class="invisible">/task-farce-delta-city-hall-also-has-its-own-electric-micromobility-panel/</span></a></p>
NYC Glue<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rbellinger" class="u-url mention">@<span>rbellinger</span></a></span> Transportation Alternatives and The War on Cars are here, but not <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StreetsBlogNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetsBlogNYC</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GershKuntzman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GershKuntzman</span></a> or anyone related to that org. <br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@transportationalternatives" class="u-url mention">@<span>transportationalternatives</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars" class="u-url mention">@<span>TheWarOnCars</span></a></span></p>
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