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Jon Orcutt
@jonorcutt.bsky.social
NYC transportation - working now w @bikenewyork.bsky.social, @reinventalbany.bsky.social

Alum @TransitCenter.bsky.social @nyc-dot.bsky.social @tstc.bsky.social @TransAlt.org
This cafe inherited a curb cut & has made nice use of the non-curb space
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social fighting for congestion pricing (2023), safe streets (this summer)
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
By far the creepiest
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The flyers work seasonally
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Weird thing that happened: joking around with @streetfilms.bsky.social, @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & then-BP Eric Adams on the downtown 1 train, following @transalt.org's Vision Zero conference in 2019
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Pounding the pavement - good looking turnout at early voting site in N Brooklyn!
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Final stray thought!

Sam Schwarz & @henrygrabar.bsky.social talking about the dispossession of pedestrians in the early 20th Century made me think of the account of "chariot calming" & level walking steps at street corners in ancient Roman towns in David Macaulay's *City*
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The film's next showing is in the Bicycle Film Festival here early next month www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/tickets
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Imagine NYC actually reclaiming leadership on safe, sustainable streets!

The film concludes with a quick bite from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's August press conf on McGuinness
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
and to @jskstreet.bsky.social's point about re-election of Anne Hidalgo & others despite predictable criticism of transportation reform policies & projects. Btw, in a trip to France last year, we perceived an "Hidalgo effect" bringing many other cities along. Random view of 🚲 traffic in Bordeaux
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The whole sordid Adams tale of corruption, sell-outs, lack of principle & ultimate political demise is shown in stark contrast to accounts of projects going ahead despite *bikelash* during the Bloomberg admin
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To me, McGuinness is the story of an incredibly well led neighborhood (at both civic & local elected levels) in an abysmally-led city. @emilyassembly.bsky.social, Bronwyn Breitner & Kevin Lacherra are absolute stars in the film
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
and the last few decades of challenge to car-dominated streets in NYC.

There's a significant sub-theme on the city's mismanagement of streets generally (we go along with @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social confronting disfigured license plates) & w regard to the big uptake of ebikes
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Changing Lanes, a new film by Brooklyn-based cinematographer Ben Wolf premiered this past weekend at the Architectural & Design Film Festival. It does an amazing job of situating the recent struggle over the McGuinness Blvd *road diet* in Greenpoint within the history of making cities car dependent
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nice look at the still new-ish E Side greenway
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Good scene up there!
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world”

1st walk over the S roadway since it was pedestrianized earlier this year
October 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's on! Pulaski Bridge this evening

@thewaroncars.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
*One day* each year, our block in Greenpoint is car free, and people flock to it.

With this level of popularity why not create more permanent pedestrian spaces?
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One cool/interesting thing about the greenway stretch along 3rd Ave is it facilitates a Brooklyn near-perimeter ride

(I know this goes into Queens. I was trying a route to Shirley Chisholm - Onderdonk/Cypress Hills/Fountain - then followed my nose back to Greenpoint)
September 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Stupidity is the point w this administration
September 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My impressions in SLC is that there is a lot of drinking going on
September 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Closed still? Again? Maybe we got across/out in some kind of bum rush
September 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM