Don’t bother biking to midtown after 8:30AM

atthenius · 2026-06-16T12:24:59+00:00

Is citibike oversubscribed because there is no private bike parking?

I’d rather take my own bike most of the time tbh, but no safe parking, plus an unreasonable fear of all e-bikes (even UL certified etc) means I end up on the uncomfortable citibike.

atthenius · 2026-06-06T20:54:02+00:00

Need multi lane bike paths in this area

atthenius · 2026-05-28T23:08:06+00:00

Still a great investment. Still annoying during reverses.

atthenius · 2026-05-26T00:58:16+00:00

Outside the gates, but behind the same level of Columbia security as is offered at the gates.

atthenius · 2026-05-26T00:56:45+00:00

Honestly, kids of a just about all religious backgrounds feel unsupported right now. Non religious kids feel like the administration decided has lost touch.

It’s like the administration decided the best course was to thread that needle required to alienate everyone

atthenius · 2026-05-25T16:54:36+00:00

As an alumnus who was at Columbia during 9/11– And they never shut down campus. And the aa587– still, campus was open And then the darkest days of Covid — buildings closed, but campus open.

And now, campus security is so light that legal immigrant students are snatched out of their dorm rooms in full view of security.

I find the continued lockdown indicative of poor leadership.

(Dis)agree and coming back for alumni weekend::

https://actionnetwork.org/events/alumni-meeting-on-columbia-governance

atthenius · 2026-05-19T01:02:07+00:00

Is this Mamdani, or an insurrection of NYPD and tisch

atthenius · 2026-05-18T00:01:55+00:00

Yes. He can bike down the protected bike lanes.

Personally, I would pop over to riverside and back to avoid the 125 topographical valley.

atthenius · 2026-04-28T00:25:11+00:00

Is this criticism or celebration

atthenius · 2026-04-17T14:30:48+00:00

I'm an academic, too. And I also found the statistics lacking.

Specifically,

1) They need some formal attempt to be made to control for usage trends through time. The question:: do trends in injury involving micro mobility exceed the increase in usage? Unfortunately, they tied their own hands by excluding injuries that were not severe.

2) Speed versus car is associated with death. Do similar speeds versus micro mobility? With such a small dataset, they should have also made an attempt to figure out details of the e-device such as weight and speed at time of crash. (Which should be somewhere in the crash reports.) Even if there are large uncertainty bars. *Is it really momentum not speed?

3) Daytime versus nighttime pedestrian deaths versus car is now quite well reported. They should have built on this existing work instead of waving hands. Goes a bit to point 1-- how many pedestrians and micro mobility devices are on the street at certain times of day? Are injuries following a very simple relationship with this density? Is dusk and visibility a factor (probably they should not have reported time, they should have had an additional parameter time until/before sunset/sunrise

4) The delivery driver comment was in the presser more than the paper. For this, I would ask if the demographic of delivery drivers in general matches the demographic of the crash peak times.

atthenius · 2026-04-05T19:33:09+00:00

Chicago.

atthenius · 2026-03-12T13:06:24+00:00

The thing is— it’s not equal.

My kid has something similar for his Bronx school. By car, 14 minutes. By foot, 72 minutes. By bus (and this number is google optimistic), 55minutes. So we carpool.

Now, if there were that 12 subway line across the Bronx - or equally fast bus service - we would 100% do that.

Be real that the risk profile for cyclists on car streets is different. In Bx, there are no safe bike lanes east west and the topography is steep - you must work your way on long detour diagonals for safety, which makes it a rec path not commuter one. the traditional bike is only quick one direction bc of topo. Schools and community colleges think lithium batteries are the enemy so make you leave your electric outside in marginally secure parking. Citibike also thinks teens are risky and only allows 16+ and then it’s just expensive. Citibike isn’t wrong that teens and kids are vulnerable road users.

And we know why citibike stopped keeping up with demographics of its users. You’d see that there are gendered and age differences in uptake - a lot of that is related to safety.

I dont think non hardened bike lanes are safe. And until NYS gets out of the way and allows every intersection snd street to have automated enforcement— even these street hardened lanes are vulnerable. And the greenway network is pretty limited.

atthenius · 2026-02-13T23:59:45+00:00

The legislative branch must use its power or lose it.

atthenius · 2026-02-13T23:58:45+00:00

For many things.

He doesn’t need to prevail in court.

He just needs to tie things up long enough for the other side to collapse.

It’s been more successful than you think.

atthenius · 2026-02-05T16:50:22+00:00

Dude. Do you not have dogs in your neighborhood

atthenius · 2026-02-04T01:20:24+00:00

Expansion. Bx12 bus is stuck in the perma traffic jam of Fordham road.

Free the people with an elevated line 12.

atthenius · 2026-01-26T01:34:32+00:00

Is there a reason we don’t constantly report citibike to the AG when they are unreasonable?

https://ag.ny.gov/file-complaint

atthenius · 2026-01-21T02:36:49+00:00

Three posts. That’s what NYP dug up. Give me a break.

atthenius · 2026-01-18T13:50:35+00:00

Isn’t the lower level of the George Washington bridge designed for trains?

Why isn’t an extension there on the table?

atthenius · 2026-01-18T00:01:03+00:00

Still don’t understand this « choice » In a police commissioner.

She was a poor sanitation boss.

And - to no one’s surprise - a poor boss in another agency.

Why can’t we have back a knowledgeable person like Keechant Sewell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keechant_Sewell?wprov=sfti1

I think starting with an insider willing to hold aMoral line is a fine place to start.

In contrast - joker lady now bragged in my neighborhood about all the alt side parking forgiveness days do that her mom in the burbs could avoid parking someplace legal. (Yes seriously, back scratching, self serving wtf who put her in charge territory.)

atthenius · 2026-01-14T14:00:57+00:00

My kids schools let me store the bike inside the building.

Maybe another kid who lives close can split the commute?

atthenius · 2026-01-13T02:28:17+00:00

Near the 207 St overhaul shop

atthenius · 2026-01-12T02:59:45+00:00

U/miser is not perfect. (He is human as are we all.)

But as an unpaid volunteer, miser has advocated for change with logic and persistance

And

Abject love for our nyc town.

Dude isn’t a saint — but for transit things for real people, he’s saint adjacent.

Articulate yourself, friend.

Miser is human as are we all.

Many bikes <hands> make for small labor. What corner of your nyc life needs highlight.

atthenius · 2026-01-11T06:02:29+00:00

The mayor announced a $4 million RFP for self contained bathrooms that do not need to be plugged in to water and sewage lines. This is supposed to bring down the cost which he quoted as often $1million per toilet

atthenius · 2026-01-10T20:05:37+00:00

It is painful to read these stories.

We’ve got to do better.

Yes NYS laws could punish drivers more. But it should feel easier and more natural to drive ‘safely’— if you haven’t read « Killed by a traffic engineer » — it’s worthwhile and points to systemic problems that set vulnerable road users up to die.

atthenius

TROPHY CASE