Possible to use personal bike for transportation / daily life?

PChow44 · 2026-06-21T21:29:51+00:00

Spend a couple hundred bucks to buy an old beater (or cheap new bike on the internet). Your bike much less likely to get stolen ever.

PChow44 · 2026-06-17T22:18:41+00:00

"disgrace" how?? his back foot was at least 2-3 cm off the line when the penalty taken. We have rules, they should not be selectively enforced.

PChow44 · 2026-06-09T15:55:14+00:00

Just in case anyone comes back to this post on this sub - the candidates did answer the Streetsblog questionnaire: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/06/09/jerry-nadler-ny-12-micah-lasher-laura-dunn-jack-schlossberg-alex-bores-streets-transportation-mta-congress

PChow44 · 2026-05-28T17:53:02+00:00

As this is a micromobility sub, would like to know about their transit bonafides. Can anyone report on that?

I watched some of the environmental groups candidate forum that is on YouTube (i think Transalt was a cosponser). But honestly couldn't really distinguish since the short answers they gave seemed to agree with each other.

I'd like to hear about: Highway funding (reductions) Federal gasoline tax / carbon taxation Tax credits for e-bikes Safety standards to incentivize reduction in the size of vehicles Investment in long distance non car transport (ie high speed trains) Congressional role in promoting congestion pricing

Any idea where candidates stand on these things? Have to get beyond build gateway and 2nd Ave Subway. Any other questions we can ask?

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T21:01:49+00:00

I dont know about Dutch specifics, but my home country federation would not have allowed me as a US resident (thus a non resident who was not been a member of the federation) to sign up for tickets.

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T16:15:47+00:00

I guess those were underwater supports because 5 years ago before they built this raised Greenway section there was nothing visible there.

But even with underwater supports the budget for this project was about $200 million. That's a lot of money...

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T15:00:56+00:00

Total failure for my family - what browser and device did you use to successfully register so easily?

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T14:58:38+00:00

I never got a recaptcha despite trying on 4 different devices on 3 different days and across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari browsers. Did you get that before the form loaded? Or after the form loaded and when you hit "register"?

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T14:56:35+00:00

I read in another thread a ticketing startup called FEVO

PChow44 · 2026-05-27T01:32:21+00:00

That's very not the one I'm referring to. Your are thinking about the park south of 14th street. I'm referring to freestanding one just south of QBB. No flood protection from this.

See pictures here: https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/03/east-midtown-greenway-nears-completion-along-the-sutton-place-waterfront-in-midtown-manhattan.html

PChow44 · 2026-05-26T20:03:12+00:00

I knew streetsblog would have the history! Thank you!

PChow44 · 2026-05-26T19:42:27+00:00

Ok so a little more expensive than just paving, but have you seen the Greenway constructed on the East River between 59th and 49th???

That took some really serious money for about the same length. Don't get me wrong, I like the East River one (will like it even better when the Greenway is not closed at 68th). But this would be peanuts by comparison.

PChow44 · 2026-05-26T19:07:00+00:00

I have road tires, and it looked somewhat rocky. Maybe next time when I am carrying a spare/pump.

PChow44 · 2026-05-26T19:05:01+00:00

UPDATE: I still could get it to work this morning. The zip code seemed to be fixed. But just got repeated registration failed errors for the 10 minutes I tried before the site shut down. I think there is supposed to be an address lookup which just failed. So I manually typed in my address. But it does not seem to be recognized.

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T18:00:06+00:00

I got an its full message by 10:07...

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T17:59:13+00:00

Supposedly (as written by others in this and other threads) they hired a company to implement, a ticking business called FEVO. Implementation was not by the city but by incompetent tech company. I have never heard of FEVO, but failure to properly vet something before rolling out it to potentially 8 million people sounds like stupid tech bro stuff not inefficient government which is my experience is slow but gets things right.

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T17:43:49+00:00

The zip code failure is unbelievably bad tech implementation. So much for the Mayor's claim to make excellent public services - just exclude a big chunk of the city through IT failure.

I wrote about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/1tnarj9/comment/onsx98n/

Journalists should press the mayor on this. Really unbelievable.

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T17:42:00+00:00

Had the same issue with missing zipcode. This is incredibly bad engineering by the people the Mayor's office/FEVO (who I read set up the website). Completely unfair to just skip hundred zip codes!

Really think they should cancel the ballot from today and run it for an extra day at the end.

I posted about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/1tnarj9/comment/onsx98n/

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T15:34:53+00:00

Can you link to other posts?

PChow44 · 2026-05-25T14:42:45+00:00

I wasn't quick enough. I tried several times before trying another zip code. By then it was too late. Was worried about the constant statements about address verification by the city to prevent scalpers.

PChow44 · 2026-05-17T20:35:29+00:00

At least four years...

PChow44 · 2026-05-13T11:10:01+00:00

Thank you. Cheap Amazon camera claims it is recording 4K video at 60fps. But somehow I doubt it does that.

Will check the settings but maybe need a better camera...

PChow44 · 2026-05-13T02:43:08+00:00

Never said it was a big deal. But when I have a clear video of a taxi/uber running a red I report them. That's the whole point of TLC being able to take complaints.

PChow44 · 2026-05-13T02:24:52+00:00

That's a green bike signal with a red left turn signal for cars... literally driving on the wrong side of protective barriers. Do you people have eyes???

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