The cost of being a fan of your local sports team has increased significantly, to the benefit of players and team owners and to the detriment of fans and the civic good that fandom represents.

Ahh, I see, thank you.

I’m not sure I know what this means about “pedestrian greens”

Cool, I’ll check out @transalt.org sounds like a great group! The Idaho stop sounds like a good policy. I live in a busy part of manhattan so there are pretty much always pedestrians waiting for the light to turn. You gotta wait for the light, then let the bikes zip through the red, then you cross.

Ya, that is fair about anything goes! Interesting about moving enforcement to DOT. Certainly doesn’t seem like NYPD does anything about any of this where I live. A culture of yielding to pedestrians would be helpful for getting pedestrians and bikeriders on the same team.

These are helpful points, thank you. I don’t know much about this stuff, I am just someone who walks around a lot, lol. Are there pro-bike advocacy people working on sensible bike traffic policies? Are bikes supposed to stop at red lights?

Ya, that’s a helpful way of putting it. Wouldn’t make sense to apply the same rules for bikes as for cars. But also wouldn’t make sense to apply no rules at all. I mostly walk around, and it does currently sorta feel like anything goes with people on bikes. I’m not sure how to get to future state.

Ya, I mean, if your fundamental point is that we should have fewer cars and more bikes in the city, I agree with you 100%. To get there, it’s not enough to say “cars are bad.” People have legit concerns about bikes, and ideally we can address those concerns rather than dismissing them as irrational.

Idk if that’s it. For me, cars are pretty predictable. It’s very rare to see a car in nyc just blast through a red light. Whereas it seems bikes usually blast through reds. Almost never see cars driving the wrong direction, not unusual for bikes! I’m pro-bike but wish they’d respect traffic rules.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/n...

Here's the abstract for #2. Again, this all seems good and appropriate.

What am I missing?

This is what it shows for #2. Tbh this all sounds pretty good. It seems like the Department of Sanitation should be in charge of maintaining the cleanliness of the streets and city property and of deciding how waste is disposed of and collected. That's what the Department of Sanitation is for, no?

The website for the NYC board of elections has the text that will be on the ballots

www.vote.nyc/page/proposi...

All the proposals have to be written at an eighth-grade reading level due to a 2024 law. That seems sort of silly since eighth graders are 13 years old and you have to be 18 to vote. Couldn't we expect a little more of our citizenry?