Peter Som de Cerff

On the one hand, self-driving cars and EVs are only less bad cars.

On the other hand, they are at least less bad.

Let's help them build on this momentum and push for better PATH funding and expansion. A new year is coming and it's high time for a strong push with support from newly electeds.

@eleanalittle.bsky.social
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social

#JerseyCity #StreetSafety #Path

It's rare to get public acknowledgement by a public transit organization about the impact of local publicity campaigns and grass-roots efforts. The Better PATH advocacy group with HCCS has worked tirelessly for about a year, and clearly they are getting noticed!

Port Authority adds PATH runs, for most coverage in 25 years.

Just a reminder that mass transit is safe (much safer than driving), and keeps our streets safer for walking (with fewet cars).

www.panynj.gov/port-authori...

@eleanalittle.bsky.social

A billboard is a child biking in a painted bike line. Text says there will never be a bell loud enough to helmet, strong enough for clothing, bright enough to make up for support infrastructure.

It’s real! Pretty moving to actually see this in person. 🥲

**without driving the speed-walkers insane.

Sneak preview: You';; tell yourself "With the grandkid(s), I'll be super-available and not miss a minute!" But, it turns out, they grow up even faster.

They still can't accept that congestion pricing works....

I’m really happy to see that you won Ward E! And doubly so as an unabashed street safety advocate.

I will support and assist - count me in!

Those of us who support reasonable restrictions on guns AND strong mental health care generally support your statement.

But there is a level of karmic rewards that's hard not to feel.

I won't say more than "how many deaths is too many, for those who support unrestricted guns?".

Why?

I am again reminded that it is a unrecognized luxury of exquisite value to be able to ignore one's digestive system and to take the functioning of one's organs for granted.

Most young people luxuriate without even noticing, and many oldsters lament the unexpected loss.

I'm really glad to see this!

What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.

...Ford-transit (the small one) minivans, instead of box trucks. Let's not have vehicle deliveries overlapping school commute times. Let's charge Ubers extra to pick up in 'hoods, vs at a nearby major arterial.

Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.

...for a "bus then drive" or a "walk then drive" outbound commute, if needed, and others can drive in for a "park-n-ride" train to NYC. And NOBODY needs to park on neighborhood streets.

Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...

We really don't need $10B spent on a turnpike here. We need a few million spent on bollards, planters, and bulb-outs, and reasonable restrictions on parking and deliveries, and simple enforcement of the laws.

Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...

...is the primary commute to work, that a few seconds of convenience for a driver is not worth the lives of our children?

When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?

... teachers, and rabbi, calls to action, and even comments noting that anger is appropriate when our electeds and our communities fail the most vulnerable.

When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...

...halfway between here and the park I take my granddaughter to visit, which is only 8 blocks away.

Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...

#jerseycity

When last I visited JC, about Feb, a car ran into a house a few blocks from my grandchild's home. A month or two ago, a 73-year-old man was killed in a cross-walk, crossing legally, less than a mile away. Yesterday, a 6-year-old boy on his bike was run over by a UPS driver....

Chaos is not indicative of strength.

I thought Iran had only one reactor,tho many nuke-related facilities?

Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?

Let’s just use an inherently safe tech and not 1950s light-water weapons-focused reactor designs.

This is at the root of much of the problem, but it's not so much causal as correlated, as part of evolving feedback loops. Western judeo-christians are relative wealthy, and Muslims tend to be poor despite vast resources, esp since extractive-industry wealth tends to promote heavy inequity.

...preserving power structures of privilege while thereby ensuring a poor, unempowered underclass which is forever ripe for populist-fueled uprisings and fundamentalist fervor.

If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!

If we imagined the US all having average wealth (vs most having median wealth), we'd all be better off than the 50's WASP-male heyday, yet poor white guys think they are just one small step from being Elon Musk if not for a few other brown guys in the way.

An awful lot of effort goes into ...

Likely the same will be said about the US someday?

Here in the US those making 20K per year think those making 200K are rich and spend cash hedonistically, yet those making 500K per year still do not feel rich, and those with 5M in the bank don't feel secure.

Now imagine those making $5 per day...

...vs wealthy, secular, educated, and non-reproducing for the technocrats and productive, yet perhaps also elites, of the world.

It's always easier to break than build.

I'm not sure of the global pattern, but I think it's save to say that Islam is the religion of the poor in many areas. Fundamentalism of other religions seems to align with poverty also.

Poor, fundamentalist, ignorant, and fecund is a crappy pattern for global stability...

Did not matter in substance....