Mayor de Blasio has allowed cars to conquer open streets.
The city’s “Open Streets” program, which launched in the summer of 2020 with the goal of closing streets to cars for certain parts of the day, has been mostly abandoned, said a report published Tuesday by the street safety advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
The goal of the program was to give New Yorkers more outdoor space to social distance during the pandemic — and proved to be wildly popular in many neighborhoods.
But data from Tuesday’s report suggests the program is not so popular among de Blasio officials.
Transportation Alternatives surveyed every one of the 274 street segments listed as part of the program, and found that 54% of them did not have barriers to keep cars from rolling through during hours the city Department of Transportation permitted them to close to traffic.
It’s a damning finding for a program that de Blasio in May called “great for the neighborhood, great for tourists too.” The mayor in April 2020 said up to 100 miles of streets would be part of the program — but Transportation Alternatives found just 24 of the city’s 6,300 miles of streets actually served as car-free “open streets” over the course of 2021.
The report also found glaring inequities in what remains of the Open Streets program.
Some 84% of the street segments listed as part of the program in the Bronx had no barriers to keep cars out in 2021 — and the borough is home to just 2% of the program’s streets that are actually enforced, the report found.
“This report makes one thing clear: New Yorkers love Open Streets, and they want to see them succeed,” said Transportation Alternatives executive director Danny Harris. “However, Mayor de Blasio has broken his promise to expand the program equitably.”
This report makes it more clear that they didn't even bother to talking to the residents where these open streets are. Danny Harris is the second most deranged and delusional person in this city behind the Blaz.
The people @TransAlt surveyed for these "active" open streets,no one is identified,they are all "visitors" not residents.And most of them respond with the same talking points that jibes with every press release and social media message they put out. Including this study! pic.twitter.com/QLEYYzS3mr
— This is JQ LLC (@ImpunityCity) October 13, 2021
44 comments:
What we need is more bicycle lanes. Not open streets.
Also for NYPD to enforce traffic laws.
When I was a kid we played stickball in "da shtreet". We played stoopball, punchball, skully, Johnny rides a pony, cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, snowball fights. The jungle gyms had concrete flooring. We flipped and flung bubblegum cards against the wall. And "da shtreets" weren't closed off nor was there any Transportation Alternative killjoy lunatic in sight.
We kept our eyes open for cars. What fun we had.
Just what is it about this incompetent mayor?
Is this one of his wife’s ideas? Seems to me that the “first lady” runs the show from the bedroom.
Billie do this! Bille do that!
Otherwise...no nookie tonight, Mr. Mayor!😂😂😂😂Whatta dominatrix!
Ah, thanks JQ.
You have a Twitter spat with these mindless clones, it explains why they are here talking about car storage among other garbage using ethnic slurs at times.
They are the Build Back Better activist mercenaries :)
@GTH
“Da” streets had a few less cars back in the 1950s.
What we need is more bicycle lanes.
What you need is a trip to China, so you can bike all you want.
>“This report makes one thing clear: New Yorkers love Open Streets, and they want to see them succeed,” said Transportation Alternatives executive director Danny Harris.
Insane that the Daily News quoted him but not people actually stuck living in the zone. I can't figure out if they quoted him so prominently because they agree with him, or that they stuck it in there to show TA are liars.
Seems like it's a site full of "Annon's" just like this one. So what's the big deal. One bunch of anons complaining that the other bunch are also anons. Even JQ LLC is an anon. For all we know he/she could be Vladimir Putin, Winnie the Pooh, The Quotation Drone or George Soros.
Turd Ferguson said...
Bike Nazis need to socially distance themself from the universe.
Even Brandon knows you can't go around the "left-hand" corner too fast and sharp or you'll go off the corner and crash.
Some day, if NYC Demorats attain to adulthood, they will understand all of this.
@"You have a Twitter spat with these mindless clones"
As I always say. Only Twits hang out on Twitter.
Get a life.
TA are neo liberal fascists. All these stinky non profits are the same. The executive directors making the real big money six figures are little Julius Caesars slave masters and the worker bees are expendable nobody’s. Throw in the mix a board that is remote controlled by the executive director and you have a toxic work environment.Sounds like a Plantation to me. Read the employee reviews on Glassdoor or Indeed. How they treat employees is how they will treat constituents.
Where will all the hipsters and. trust fundies do their yoga.
@“ Bike Nazis need to socially distance themself from the universe.”
True as do car communists. Open streets are for pedestrians, everyone else can take a hike.
What the working class Sheeple need is lower taxes ! Not unnecessary government spending that helps fuel inflation. Stagflation Continues, 5.4% inflation for September...
This government has spent its way into an inflationary mess, which we’re already feeling across the economy. Don’t be surprised if everyday expenses continue to be more costly and your disposable income shrinks as the economy hobbles.
"Only Twits hang out on Twitter"
I'm a deplorable Russian bot. Killary said so. Prove me wrong...
SUV Driver said...
I was almost hit by a Bike Nazi in a crosswalk yesterday. I told him to be more careful and he turned around and started swearing at me. I started walking toward him and he sped off, giving me the finger as he rode away.(Beta Male Actions)
Bike Nazis are often vegans and believe their choice of transportation makes them superior to those who choose to drive cars. Bike Nazis are quick to vandalize a car if they feel they can get away with it. If your name ain't Lance Armstrong, get the fuck off the road, stupid bike Nazis!
"Also for NYPD to enforce traffic laws"
God helps those who help themselves.
Just get past it. There is no just law in NYC with the Commie CRT Woke crowd in charge.
Do We need a strong dose of McCarthyism ? Let me know...
@“ Disgruntled Citizen”
How many of those reviews did you write?
Seems like it's a site full of "Annon's" just like this one. So what's the big deal. One bunch of anons complaining that the other bunch are also anons. Even JQ LLC is an anon. For all we know he/she could be Vladimir Putin, Winnie the Pooh, The Quotation Drone or George Soros.
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But since you snot-nosed neofascists and bike nuts a treated so seriously by the press it's nice to bring you all down a notch when you parade yourselves through OUR neighborhoods.
@All these stinky non profits are the same.
They are the money laundry. Look at the sponsors. Get the nutjobs to wreak havoc, the sponsors will clean up the money while everybody is arguing back and forth.
Old scam, only the soyboys are new.
Anonymous said...
Seems like it's a site full of "Annon's" just like this one. So what's the big deal. One bunch of anons complaining that the other bunch are also anons.
Coming from Anonymous .
Yes people, these morons are this stupid.
“Da” streets had a few less cars back in the 1950s.
"Da" country also had less commies like you back in the 1950s.
Anonym #4: Bet you never made one of these.
What Transportation Alternatives and the radical left is seeking to implement is actually neo-feudalism, NOT communism. The rhetoric about Trump, racism and communism is meant to distract the public about the neo-feudalist or corporate feudalist policies that wealthy people want to implement in the US. I repeat, we MUST be talking more about neo-feudalism as that is a BIG threat to the middle class and the American way of life.
@Open streets are for pedestrians, everyone else can take a hike.
So you need a whole street for your fat ass?
No wonder airlines are charging double now.
Open Streets - Globalist Bloomberg Project, he started this.
Right little foot soldier?
@GTA
Actually I did. Using the back wheels of old tricycles and some other pieces I cobbled together.
And by the photo, even a communist can see that there were much fewer cars back then. And they drove slower too.
@And by the photo, even a communist can see that there were much fewer cars back then. And they drove slower too.
Good. At least you admit being a stinking communist.
Fewer cars and they drove slower? Some new technology allows you to see they drove slower with big chrome bumpers and V8 engines?
What was the minimum speed limit in the city back then?
Ask your time machine.
@“ What Transportation Alternatives and the radical left is seeking to implement is actually neo-feudalism,”
Is this the latest from Q?
@“ Yes people, these morons are this stupid.”
Maybe you need reading glasses or more likely you are suffering from a severe bout of Dunning-Kruger syndrome like most Right Wing Nuts.
I guess we’ll never know…
I GTA spent most of his childhood playing with himself and not playing in the streets.
No need to worry about cars then.
Is this the latest from Q?
Working on your ABC? Use letters to form words, use words to form sentences.
Man, can't be this hard.
@GTA spent most of his childhood playing with himself and not playing in the streets.
We are not talking about you now. Keep your family secrets, no one cares.
Bike fetish freak.
@Maybe you need reading glasses or more likely you are suffering from a severe bout of Dunning-Kruger syndrome like most Right Wing Nuts.
I guess we’ll never know…
You'll never know anything, but that is OK. Hanson Robotics will take care of you.
You are suffering from "Let's Go Brandon" syndrome commie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_F_XQrukM
Try harder commie. Earn your keep for your handlers.
We played in the streets in the 50's and 60's all day and night and when a car came we yelled "car".Cars had to be cautious of the kids,now kids don't play in the street anymore and cars can speed.To close off a street to play on is ridiculous, if you want a car free street you should go to a park,streets are for moving traffic.To expect people to get out of their cars and move barricades is insane.
The Hell with the bike lanes. What about the horrific theft and shoplifting spree that is killing NYC stores. All because a radical lib government led by district attorneys who are the son and daughters of weather underground criminals.
TA is shilling for a neo-feudalist aganda. Vote Joann Ariola to help stop this.
@"We played in the streets in the 50's and 60's all day and night and when a car came we yelled "car".Cars had to be "
Not sure where you are living now, but it's obvious you haven't been around NYC in the past few years to see the standard of driving being performed on the steets. How 90% of New Yorker's got their licenses is beyond me, but it's obvious that the testing system is severely flawed. "Drive around the block and park the car" on a half empty street in Laurelton does not make someone a driver and it shows.
If you really think it's safe for kids to play on those streets, then why don't you and George The Idiot stand out in the middle of Astoria Blvd. and do a merry Jig.
See how long you last.
Playing stickball on Astoria Boulevard as the cars whizz by.
"George The Idiot stand out in the middle of Astoria Blvd. and do a merry Jig."
You the commie idiot, GTA was talking about streets, you are talking about boulevard.
For all we care you can go and play on the expressway or parkway.
Yes folks, they are THIS STUPID.
Agenda 21. Bike shock troops.
Paid by and for the capitalists.
Lovely union of the minds and bank accounts.
When we Played in the street, the first one to see a car would yell, Car, car, C-A-R, stick it in a jelly jar!
The only people playing in the street now are drug dealers who play football at 2 am.
Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan = No coal, no cars and no meat.
https://twitter.com/ChadGilmartinCA/status/1450945153515065344
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