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Want Safety in Central Park? Add Protected Bike Lanes Around and Through It: Advocates - Streetsblog New York City

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 1d

AMEN. This is precisely the reason I said "perceived problems".

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 1d

I am quoted in this article.

"A cycle track around the park would get a ton of use and it’s going to take pressure off of Central Park," said Chris Sanders. "That would solve like 99 percent of whatever the perceived problem is for Central Park itself."

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/w...

It's time to ring the park with green paint — and add green veins through it.

Mamdani Vows To Defy DOT Insiders, Political Bosses To Pursue His Streets Agenda - Streetsblog New York City

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing!!! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social we need to get the Manhattan 5th avenue bike lane in place. Its chaos on that street and everyone uses it to ride their micromobility on. 🙏🏾👏🏾🥳🤩

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/m...

Mamdani pledged stand up to bureaucrats and political power players who oppose his plans to make streets safer and buses faster.

Why Boston is moving away from flexposts to a new type of bike lane barrier

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 2d

Flexposts are good to quickly mark a bike lane & have the advantage of being adjustable if the initial alignment doesn't work but should be replaced by something more solid after the lane is judged effective. Most flexposts in Boston have been in place for way too long. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Boston has begun swapping out the thin, flexible bollards with "cast-in-place concrete" bike lane barriers that sit on top of the road.

www.wbur.org

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 2d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if you havent met him already, I really think you should chat with Dan Wang. He wrote this

“…Americans do have to choose between poorly governed cities or car dependent suburbs”

while lamenting the lack of community in the car dependent suburbs in his book ‘Breakneck’.

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 4d

OMG I think I met you at a gays for transit meeting in SF awhile back.

Gale Brewer Flip Flops On Daylighting: Parking Over People

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 5d

I know its hard to believe. But I think we can do better than an awkward slip lane and that little piece of bike lane thats not connected to anything aboce 26th Street. Whats keeping this from being a 2way bike lane that links to 25th and broadway?

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 5d

@nyc-dot.bsky.social whats going in with 6th avenue? How does this happen where the parking prtected bike lane has no stipes delineating the parking at all.

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 10d

Gale Brewer's Daylighting Debacle!

youtu.be/3rLR7GbdPOQ

YouTube video by New York Urbanist

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 22d

Stop buying cars.

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We Need To *Stop* Buying Cars.

YouTube video by Cara Nicole

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 24d

@nyc.streetsblog.org I live in CB5 and wanted to attend meeting about Time Square Casino but there is no Thursday Meeting on the Agenda as this article says ---> nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/11/j...

Jay Z-Backed Times Square Casino Shrinks Sidewalks and Bus Lanes to Serve More Cars - Streetsblog New York City

New Yorkers aren't only gambling with their future inside the Times Square casino: Developer SL Green wants to remove a bus lane and "super sidewalks" installed just three years ago.

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 25d

She should just show us and dont tell us.

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 26d

Kathy Hochul Endorses Zohran Mamdani. 🤩🥳😁👏🏾

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 28d

We are so BACK! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/n...

Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu

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Active Transportation Alliance @atalliance.bsky.social · 28d

Over 25,000 in Chicago!

Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · 28d

2024 American Community Survey data is out

Congratulations to New York City on another year of strong growth for bike commuting - topping 70,000 people who primarily use a bicycle to get to work in 2024 data.bikeleague.org/data/cities-...

(Chicago and Boston also have new all-time highs)

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 28d

We are so back! This would secure my full throated support!!! 🥳🥳🥳👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🤩🤩🤩

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/n...

Mamdani Says He Will Apologize for Calling the N.Y.P.D. Racist in 2020

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · 29d

I don know 🤷🏾‍♂️ I think the NYPD should be apologizing for being homophobic and racist not Zohran Mamdani apologizing for calling NYPD homophobic and racist. 😵‍💫🤦🏾‍♂️😞 Please be fake news. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

SEE IT: Cops Violently Arrest Teen Riding Citi Bike in Alphabet City - Streetsblog New York City

Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · Sep 9

They could literally just put bollards at the edge of the sidewalk if they wanted to keep cars out.

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · Sep 8

Massive thank you to the Santander Cycles team for helping keep London moving this morning during the RMT tube strikes.

Our Cycleway network is really busy so if you’re out & about, cycle safely keep an eye out for others.

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · Sep 8

@mta.info @transalt.org I think you all should run some “They shouldve just taken the train ads.” Showing frustrated people driving cars or getting into crashes when they couldve just taken the train.

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · Aug 29

NYPD abusing power again. Youd think theyd use common sense. They need a new rule for officers… Dont make the news.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/29/s...

Four cops slammed a teenager to the ground, pulled his hair and knelt on his head for allegedly riding a Citi Bike "in a reckless manner."

Christopher Marte (@chrismartenyc) on Threads

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · Aug 28

@nycdot.bsky.social CM Chris Marte wants to pedestrianize the financial district. Ya’ll spent $500k studying it. Where is the document detailing how the financial district would be pedestrianized?

www.threads.com/@chrismarten...

DOT start the plan! It’s been 4+ years and $500,000 spent just to develop a plan to pedestrianize the Financial District and so far we have gotten nothing!

www.threads.com

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Chris Sanders @swiftysanders.bsky.social · Aug 25

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC History Scavenger Hunt was incredible. I did the whole thing with an amazing team of guys I met in line at the start of the scavenger hunt.

I used my Gazelle e-bike.👏🏾

INCREDIBLE!!!

Here is the picture I took with one of the guys from our group.

#zohranmamdani