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For decades, Jersey City has run one of the largest, most unacknowledged welfare programs in its history, for wannabe suburban car owners. By giving away 60,000 street parking spaces of expensive public real estate for free, it's a multi-hundred million dollar annual wealth transfer.

In the twilight of Governor Murphy's administration, he tried to lock in a bad deal by giving up very little. $10.2B Turnpike widening instead of a $10.7B widening. Many people wanted to just accept the deal or prioritize trucks over the people of Newark/South JC. Win or lose it was worth the fight.

This is a cool visualization of property taxes per sq/ft in Jersey City and shows the valley around the Turnpike Extension. By @runsascoded.com

Murphy left a $10.7B project a $10.2B project. Sherrill fully scaled it down to $6.7B. One new bridge, the old one will be torn down. *Repair-first* approach to the rest of the extension. 0 new lanes. Full cushion to continue to invest in NJ Transit.

Sherrill so far has been a breathe of fresh air.

This is one of the wild aspects about something with high externalities like the Turnpike Authority going around saying how they are so fiscally self-sufficient. They receive the mother of all tax abatements plus they destroy all the taxable land value within X000 ft of the thing.

Guess which city devotes the most land to highways.

Newark.

But bcs Newark's prop values aren't as high as, say, Oakland's, it doesn't rank among cities w/ the most to gain from redeving its freeways--in terms of total $.

But Nwk prop tax revs could ⬆️ at least 32%, more than Manhattan or Oakland.

🚨🎉💪 We will have more to say soon, but this is a huge win for transportation and the environment. Our coalition's brief statement below 🌳🚶🛤️

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Officially adopting Jersey Fortress

With lower-cost e-bikes (I ride one) the cheaper controllers with only cadence sensors have an unintuitive delay. So then they usually have a throttle that is necessary to use to "clean things up". Not the worst, but it's something. Anyways, e-bikes and kids – they are a cheat code.

Oh nice. If you go with a Tern, the good thing is it has a high-quality torque sensor so it will feel very natural. I don't think there is a ton of learning curve with riding e-bikes but the extra money makes it even easier to ride. /

Is this a first e-bike for you? Parenting and e-bikes is such a good combo. Personally have found it a gamechanger efficiency wise. Usually the fastest way to get somewhere local around here and lowest variance too.

I don't personally ride an electric Tern, but it is a popular option among parents in Jersey City. High quality. Accessories are all great. I'd get their panniers even if not buying their cargo bikes. Quality of the analog bikes I have from them is very high. /

$1.75M per affordable unit is a horrible waste. Shameless to ask the Federal government for $21 billion dollars because they refuse to upzone and build enough housing elsewhere.

Language can be funny. Fwiw, I think a lot of people still call it Defe even after the CDMX administrative change + rebrand

New Jersey ->
紐澤西 "niu-juh-see" (Taiwan) vs
新澤西 "new juh-see" (China)

Jersey City ->
澤西城 "Jersey Fortress (city, archaic)" (Taiwan)
澤西市 "Jersey Market (city, modern)" (China)

Hello world!

jct.rbw.sh is a map of @jerseycity.bsky.social property tax payments

65 groups and three state legislators ask Governor to back the downsized one bridge option fo NJ Turnpike project www.nj.com/news/2026/02...

Whoa. They used to have them in West New York right? But that required police protection to sustain. Wild.

I do apologize to whichever fellow Jersey City-an I am grabbing Killed By a Traffic Engineer from. JCFPL should order more. Looking forward to reading this @wesmars.bsky.social

Anyway, the solution is obvious. There are good and bad faith critiques of 150 Bay St. But if it's not a viable plan, let's see another one that gives more density in exchange for a school. I am hopeful Eleana Little is willing to do this.

I appreciate @eleanalittle.bsky.social's willingness to help. But let's be clear that while facilitating a deal is fine, the money for the actual rent / bonds for the building have to come from the BOE + SDA, not from the municipal budget.

There is an issue with City Council being the best run, best streamed, best recorded meeting in the area. All those PS 16 parent should be showing up to the Board of Ed and the SDA which is responsible for building new schools in Jersey City.

A little girl riding a bike with her family and a Bike JC volunteer down the Franklin St. Protected Bike Lane pilot demonstration, which created a two-way protected bike lane on Franklin St. in the Heights neighborhood in Jersey City. Text says: "Tell City Council YES to One-Way Franklin St. and two-way protected bike lane Wednesday, February 25th at 6:00 p.m."

Join us at City Hall TONIGHT at 6:00 PM to support the Franklin St. Protected Bike Lane!
An ordinance to turn Franklin Street one-way and add the Heights' first protected bike lane will have a first reading TONIGHT (Wednesday, February 25th, at 6:00PM).
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Go light rail! Resilient through snow and rain.

This is very good. Exasperated yet playful.

Don't let the seemingly niche topic drive you away.

JC Birds Continues to Mislead Jersey City on Costs, Impact of Bird Ordinance Ever since the bird-safe glass ordinance was introduced in 2025, Better Blocks has worked hard to make it a better, more targeted ordinance [Jersey City Times]. Our goal is to reduce bird strikes in high-risk areas without worsening the housing affordability crisis by adding onerous and costly regulations on all new construction, additions, and rehabilitations on residential and commercial buildings citywide.

JC Birds Continues to Mislead Jersey City on Costs, Impact of Bird Ordinance

Ever since the bird-safe glass ordinance was introduced in 2025, Better Blocks has worked hard to make it a better, more targeted ordinance [Jersey City Times]. Our goal is to reduce bird strikes in high-risk areas…

Oregon's state senate just voted to ban unfunded inclusionary zoning, recognizing that it makes housing *less* affordable, not more affordable.

Problem was bidding on rent against an AI Lab no?

This is like the tenth research group using a totally new dataset to reach this same conclusion: building new market-rate housing helps low-income tenants.
"These findings demonstrate that housing supply expansions benefit lower-income households through moving chains"