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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦

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Addicted to e-bikes. Research Director at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Hot takes are my own. My relationship status with NJ TRANSIT is "complicated".

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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
PennDOT and #RabbitTransit have issued an RFP Philadelphia-Reading-Harrisburg bus service. If its operates like other subsidized PennDOT bus service, there would be local stops along the 422 corridor (Pottstown, Lebanon, Hershey etc.).
Services provided under ntial funding under this procurement. The Harrisburg-Reading-Philadelphia corridor represents an expansion of the Pennsylvania Intercity Bus Program and is a required service corridor under this procurement. Proposers may submit proposals for eligible services as provided in the RFP.

The total program allocation available for services under this solicitation is $5,950,000 for the 2027-2028 contract period. This amount represents the maximum funding available through this procurement and does not constitute a guarantee that the full amount will be awarded or expended.

Proposed services shall provide meaningful connections with the regional and national intercity bus network and shall meet the service, accessibility, fleet, reporting, performance, and other requirements contained in the RFP.

All Proposals and resulting contracts are subject to applicable Commonwealth and Federal laws and requirements and to the applicable financial assistance arrangements between the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), PennDOT, and SRTA.

All costs incurred by Proposers in developing responses to this RFP are the sole responsibility of the Proposing firms. No such costs will be reimbursed by SRTA and shall not be included as reimbursable costs under any resulting Contract.

Please obtain the complete Solicitation by visiting PennBid.net. All solicitation materials, questions, responses, addenda, and Proposal submissions will be administered through the PennBid.net platform.

Due:

2:00 PM Eastern Time, November 30, 20260910 - Intercity Bus Operators RFP

The Susquehanna Regional Transportation Authority (SRTA), dba rabbittransit, in consultation with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Bureau of Public Transportation (BPT), is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified intercity bus service providers for the operation of intercity bus services under Pennsylvania's Intercity Bus Program.

The Pennsylvania Intercity Bus Program provides funding for regularly scheduled intercity bus service connecting rural and small urban communities with larger population centers and the regional and national intercity bus network. Services provided under this procurement shall comply with applicable Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5311(f) requirements and the requirements established in the RFP.

SRTA has identified multiple intercity bus corridors throughout the Commonwealth for potential funding under this procurement. The Harrisburg-Reading-Philadelphia corridor represents an expansion of the Pennsylvania Intercity Bus Program and is a required service corridor under this procurement. Proposers may submit proposals for eligible services as provided in the RFP.

The total program allocation available for services under this solicitation is $5,950,000 for the 2027-2028 contract period. This amount represents the maximum funding available through this procurement and does not constitute a guarantee that the full amount will be awarded or expended.

Proposed services shall provide meaningful connections with the regional and national intercity bus network and shall meet the service, accessibility, fleet, reporting, performance, and other requirements contained in the RFP.

All Proposals and resulting contracts are subject to applicable Commonwealth and Federal laws and requirements and to the applicable financial assistance arrangements between the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), PennDOT, and SRTA.

All costs incurred by Proposers in developing …Rabbit Transit i.e. Susquehanna Regional Transportation Authority
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was the subtext of the #SouthPark episode. #rememberingKenny.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is pretty self-centered but taking your bike on an Amfleet car is a painful experience. I welcome my Airo overlords.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is yet another reason the outcry to ban e-bikes is so wrong-headed. My 250 Watt Class 1 Cannondale vs. our 2 motor vehicles.
AI-assisted one-pager graphic of a real-world comparison of a 2009 Subaru Forester XT (premium gas required), 2025 Kia Niro EV and a Class 1 e-bike, the Cannondale Treadwell Neo with a 250W (1/4 kWh) motor and battery.
300 Mile Results 
Subaru Forester $78.95 at 5.00 a gallon
Kia Niro $8.00 at 12 cents a kWh (PSE&G Time of Use)
Cannondale Treadwell Neo 68 cents at 27 cents a kWh
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KD Drummond @kddrummondnfl.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Fans booing THE SHIT out of the anthem at Cowboys-Ravens in Rio
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is @njtransit.bsky.social not telling #RiverLINE customers that afternoon service cuts are coming in this press release? Service will be every 30 minutes after 9AM. @customeradvocate.bsky.social www.njtransit.com/service-advi...
New afternoon service will only be 30 minutes instead of 15 minutes after September 21st on New Jersey Transit River Line.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ban e-bikes!
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A good time to remind people that 1/4 of the adults in the US do not possess a driver’s license. Walkable communities, good bicycle infrastructure and reliable mass transit is way cheaper than automobile ownership regardless of the motor power.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
People need watch or rewatch Sicko.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Morning bike count on the Ben Franklin Bridge. #bikephl @bcgp.bsky.social
Bike Count sheet, Ben Franklin Bridge,  Camden, NJ.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's transit and should be funded as such. Philly's Indego bike network is essentially the 6th busiest transit system in PA.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The sidewalk and all the travel lanes are open. They are just using the bike lane to store that big crane thing.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
OTOH finding a working public outlet to charge your ebike while enroute is 10x more difficult than finding an EV charger.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Love the HBO series #Task. I hate the fact that they have a #PHL bike lane permit on Market St. and did not set up the required bicycle detour.
1700 Block of Market St on August 26th. The set crew from the HBO series "Task" storing equipment in the bike lane. The City requires a bike detour with this permit.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...
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Lake of the Hague - MapQuest
Check out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake of the Hague!
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's worse than that because some residential buildings have banned e-bikes.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually."
theconversation.com
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bus number 19144, it arrived in Beverly at 9AM heading for Camden. Probably substituted for 8:12 or 8:27 Trenton departures. The sign said out of service no passengers.
NJT Bus 19144 at Beverly Edgewater ParkBus 19144 "Not in Service No PassengersPassengers heading northbound to Trenton unfortunately it was a southbound bus. August 25th 9:01 AM
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Miller's is a 2 puncher.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@customeradvocate.bsky.social RiverLINE shuttle buses are a mess. No directional sign, no real time, driver doesn't announce. Trenton customers just tried to board a southbound at Beverly, they weren't happy.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Woke bike lanes" guy has something to say.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The e-moto problem makes true Class 3 e-bikes (no throttle) look tame.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner from December 2024 in Toronto over the Gardiner Expressway. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social
B/W BANNER HANGING ON A HIGHWAY OVERPASS: WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFICexpressway traffic with image of banner hanging on overpass
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/current/mete...
mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu
Maunakea Weather Center - MKWC Meteograms
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Nice day eh! Wind Chill of 18 degrees and soaking wet I assume. #MaunaKea #LALA
Weather Observation at an CFHT observatory on Mauna Kea, HI. Temp 36.8, Presure 607 mb, Winds ENE 84 mph.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Shout out to this kid who seems to be flush with cash (or sponsors) to buy and modify all these #emotos www.facebook.com/share/r/1GtT...
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It looks like Senator Scutari seems OK with the monster he's created. #ebikeNJ Gift Link www.nj.com/news/2026/08...
NJ.Com NJ bike shops report up to 90% drop in e-bike sales new law: "They are breaking us"Facebook Post from NJ 22nd Legislative District elected officials. Senate President Nick Scutari and assembly members James Kennedy and Linda Carter on the current e-bike law. Scutari the 2nd most powerful elected in the state, was the primary sponsor of the bill.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
SEPTA is rolling out new bus stop signs this month.
SEPTA is replacing all their bus stop signs before the debuts its new bus network on August 23rd.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
At least we're finally addressing the e-bike menace.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"..Woke people say"
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here is a handy e-ride checker that shows whether or not you need to register your vehicle in NJ. #stupidlaw www.jesseserides.com/pages/ridech...
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What Class is Your e-Ride? | Jesse's e-Rides
Find out which New Jersey e-bike class your ride belongs to. Use our simple interactive checker to know whether your e-Ride is Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, or something else.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The blood is on his hands. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/m...
bostonglobe.com
Boston transportation planner fatally struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
Louisa Gag, 36, “was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TBF the "Country Road" has a MARC Station for trains that go to West Virginia.
Boyds MARC Brunswick Line commuter rail station on Clopper Rd near Gaithersburg MD. Trains travel between Union Station-Brunswock, MD and Martinsburg, WV.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
lol looks like the voters heard her loud and clear because DeGette lost her primary
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For the Epsteinth time, it's the genocide Jake.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Boiler alert.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Here is an e-bike Liability Insurance quote from #velosurance. The bike is a 2013 Breezer that was retrofitted with a Hilltopper e-bike conversion kit in 2020. The $545 is the original cost of the kit. TBF this is max coverage. @govsherrill.bsky.social

Total premium
$31.99/month or $414.00/year

2013 Breezer Uptown Ex (with 2020 e-bike conversion kit).
Value - $545

Coverage
Limit

Bicycle Physical Damage 
None Liabillty only
Deductible
None Liability only

Bike usage
Commuter
Worldwide Theft/Damage/Loss
NQ
$500,000
LiabiltyLimit (0ptional -nal premium

Medical Pavments (Optional)
$10,000/person

$25,000
Vehicle Contact Protection (Optional)
$500.00/occurence $1,000.00/term

Competitive Event Fee Reimbursement (Free)
$250.00/occurence

Rental Reimbursement (Free) 
Spare Parts (Free) 

$500.00/occurrence $1,000.00/term
Cycle Apparel (Free)  riding gear helmet etc.
$500.00/occurrence $1,000.00/term
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I plan on questioning the DRPA on their enforcement plan. I doubt Camden PD will bother, my concern is going beyond to places like Cherry Hill or Haddonfield.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here's my answer to PA residents who aee worried about being stopped in NJ for riding an e-bike.
Expired PA License plate attached to a Class 1 e-bike. 
NJ e-bike law enforcement begins July 19th and the law as it stands now has contradictory language as to whether out of state residents can legally ride an e-bike in the state.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Delco Gym Manager > Florida Man
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
He was truly a progressive pioneer at USDOT for Vision Zero, biking, walking, transit, ev's. Now we have Road Rules guy whose only accomplishment is to unravel all that he has done.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"From police to politicians, a corrupt Establishment thinks citizens fighting data centers must be terror threats or foreign agents." Another banger from Will Bunch. www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...
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You hate data centers. They think you could be a terrorist or Chinese dupe. | Will Bunch
From police to politicians, a corrupt Establishment thinks citizens fighting data centers must be terror threats or foreign agents.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
PATCO High Speed Line (NJ to PHL) is extremely car dependent. Townships hate TOD, it pays for half the electricity to run the trains and they function as carports. Not installing them at all would have been the worst option.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
People are uniting behind reigning in data centers. I expect progressives to run with it and centrists to author some milquetoast statements.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It got to a point about 5 years ago where @nytpitchbot.bsky.social was able to predict the headlines months in advance.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
share.inquirer.com/lDoXKN
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Not sure if there is a paywall but here is the "gift article" share.inquirer.com/lDoXKN
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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John Boyle 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦 @fjohnboyle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#DelanyHall has easy bus access (Route 25) from Newark Penn Station. NJ Transit accepts Tap and Pay on its buses. A Veo scooter ride is faster than the bus but you will be on streets with heavy truck traffic.
Route 25 Bus service from Penn Station, Newark to Delany Hall on Doremus Ave. A 20 minute bus ride or a 15 minute Veo scooter ride. Source the Transit App.
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