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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 12h

Port Imperial Blvd & River Rd is an important north-south bus corridor. It should be a proper road in the stroad confusion. But the county is giving away traffic lights and curb cuts left-and-right. Ave at Port Imperial should be a local retail corridor that provides good walkable self-sufficiency

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 12h

We also need some actual planning and zoning from Weehawken, West New York, and North Bergen. Big new buildings going up with zero retail. No coffee, bagels, restaurants, retail, diapers, daycares. Just lots and lots of parking. Then the new residents move-in and immediately complain about traffic.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 13h

I was trying to be positive in the phrasing, but yes, it would be difficult to disagree...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 14h

Jersey City has yet to acknowledge that Downtown is majority Asian and is underrepresented in many spheres.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 14h

Zero appreciation from red states for the tremendous amount of wealth transferred from blue states to red states of which NJ is a major donor...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 14h

I haven't fully thought things through, but I appreciate the "Strong Towns" tact you are pursuing. There's a level at which governance gets worse when the entity gets too small, eg NJ municipalities. But I think it's true. Federal grants regularly taking a decade, all-or-nothing elections, etc

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 1d

Hot pot right? It's enjoyable but I totally overestimated my spice tolerance and had to skim most of it out lol

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 1d

You posted about the amount of subsidy before, just wild how inefficient it is. Good to see improvement on the parking lot nevertheless.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 1d

I don't really understand it but there's still concern about moving cars north even though it seems self-defeating since that attracts Turnpike cut-through. Also I don't know if they ever moved on from the cars pointing at each other design. They almost did it again for Bergen Sq but people voted no

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 1d

Without reversing Grove St, my concern is Columbus and Grove remains a dangerous mess. It's an outdated strategy to slow down cars by pointing them at each other. And this rebuild will lock this bad idea in for a long time.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 2d

Just getting started but there is @betterblocksnj.bsky.social now.

cc: @3underscores.bsky.social @eaconner.bsky.social

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 2d

So what's the point in Sherrill saying nothing on either the $10.7B Turnpike Ext widening or the broader statewide $24B highway widening plan?

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 2d

NJ Republicans starved transit, but only a Democrat could come up with such a destructive self-owning spending plan for highway expansion instead of investing in transit.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 2d

Still struggle to find positive reasons for voting for Sherrill. She refused to say anything helpful on Turnpike when she came to Hudson County. Nothing will remake NJ for the worse more than the Turnpike's statewide $24B highway widening plan. At least Ciattarelli on transpo says he would fix first

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Eleana Little @eleanalittle.bsky.social · 3d

I'm proud to be endorsed by Streets PAC NJ! For years I have stood with transit & complete streets advocates. On the City Council, I’ll be ready to deliver the next wave of downtown #JerseyCity infrastructure successes—making our streets safer for all and improving our mass transit options.

Streets PAC NJ endorses Eleana Little for Council - Ward E

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 3d

What Gilmore did is wrong. Then the administration tried to pretend they didn't need more money for infrastructure to not give Solomon a win. While traffic lights remain mistimed, bollards that were there have gone missing, contractors install calming in the wrong locations, etc, etc

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 3d

If Solomon is bad on streets, no one in NJ is good. No Ward or Ward equivalent in NJ has seen more progress on safe streets in the last 8 years.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 3d

Solomon is way better than his opponents. It's not even close. McGreevey just wants to blame it all on traffic enforcement. Ali opposes 20mph speed limit and claims there's been zero progress so far. O'Dea is decent, but several of his running mates are atrocious.

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Glassbro @glassbro.bsky.social · 3d

Streets PAC NJ endorses James Solomon for Jersey City mayor.

For council:

At large - Mamta Singh
Ward A - Denise Ridley
Ward B - Lorena Loayza
Ward C - Dawn Giambalvo
Ward D - Jake Ephros
Ward E - @eleanalittle.bsky.social

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Upzone New Jersey 🏗️ @upzonenj.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday, Jim McGreevey said that renovations on single family homes shouldn't trigger property tax revaluations. Probably the most pro-gentrification policy I have ever heard a politician propose.

Every mayoral candidate should have to answer, do they think home prices should go higher or lower.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 4d

Seems very bad that there's a very good transit access project at Newark Airport station but Weequahic is single-family zoning.

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 4d

And congrats on the 10K!

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 4d

This is actually a really good improvement to have traffic calming and a protected two-way bike lane and is worth celebrating. Hudson County's first big one. It's taking longer than ideal, but people that live there also aren't realizing there's no way around needing to repave a roadway.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 4d

Kid's progressing through school and seeing New Math up front, it is the shizzz.

How did the same era of Big Education produce both New Math and destroy a generation's ability to read through sight words woo woo?

jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 6d

A senior widow talked my ear about living by the ferry and light rail and how great it was and how my parents should move here too. My parents want to stop driving. I'm just not sure what direction the city goes on Vision Zero. Imagining polite seniors trying to cross Columbus with turning drivers..

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