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Glassbro @glassbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I get to post about it 1st: NJ finally voted to raise premiums for its State Health Benefits Plan. Expect another round in the death spiral. Gov Sherrill's campaign rec'd reference-based pricing (RBP): cap hospital prices at a % of what Medicare pays. Strangely, the legislature is not acting.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 27/09/2026

Rainy Sunday, would be a great day to head to the library. Oh wait, unlike most major cities, Jersey City closes all libraries on Sundays 😅 But HCCC library is open! If you are looking for a place to read and browse (but not borrow), any Hudson County resident with a muni library card can access.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 27/09/2026

Is this area of NJ on either side of 280 but in between train lines known to feel especially soul-less and car-centric? Just endless 4-lane high-speed roadways and strip malls and low-density with no variation in form. Feels like it makes a lot of sense Livingston Mall died.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 24/09/2026

Holymoly. Imho general calming deserves a lot of credit here in addition to Citibikes and PBL network. With e-bikes and getting people to mostly drive 25 mph, it isn't that bad riding residential streets with traffic. Long way to go to make it accessible to all ages and abilities, but good progress.

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the first time in years, District 4 has a contested race for Hudson County Commissioner. We sent incumbent Yraida Aponte-Lipski and challenger Aaron Weiner our 17-question pledge on housing, BRT, Vision Zero, and parks. betterblocksnj.org/2026/09/24/a...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 22/09/2026

One of the most important things in Hudson County in many years. JFK is Hudson County's Boulevard of Death. BRT would make JFK safer by: 1. Redesigning JFK to be safer for all road users 2. Shifting traffic to transit. Buses are *60X* safer per passenger mile than private cars. Be there!

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 21/09/2026

1. It's really important the NHJ wrote this whether you agree with her other ideas or not 2. Lack of public school teacher accountability is completely core to the issue here, and it goes far beyond the worst schools. 3. Like JCPS, funding not the issue Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 15/09/2026

Even in Jersey City, traffic engineering will drag their feet for years about a simple problem like a dangerous intersection missing stop signs. It truly is a lot easier when the local councilperson is in your corner fighting for safer streets. Thank you Councilwoman @eleanalittle.bsky.social

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SafeStreetsJC @safestreetsjerseycity.org · 14/09/2026

With the start of the new school year, President of SafeStreetsJC Talya Schwartz wrote about how a lack of good car alternatives to get to school is creating car congestion that is spiraling out of control. Only way out? Safe routes to school + bus priority🚶🚲🚌 hudsoncountyview.com/op-ed-jersey...

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Op-Ed: Jersey City has a school drop off problem: 'The traffic is worse than ever' - Hudson County View

Op-Ed: Jersey City parent Talya Schwartz explains why she feels the city has a school drop off problem that needs to be addressed right away.

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

CDBG funds can be used for a lot of beneficial purposes. Blowing a MILLION dollars on a community garden for the benefit of an exclusive set of residents linked with a three-year-old "community board" does not seem like a good use of money when our streets and public parks are in a poor state.

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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

advocates in this neighborhood have been inspiring, the parents have been begging for safety interventions around the school for years. a well deserved win. streets that are safe for kids are safe for everyone. let's do this everywhere. yes, i'm looking at you jersey city @jerseycitynj.bsky.social

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 08/09/2026

Jersey City paid for a private easement to become a permanent part of the Brunswick Community Garden. This "community" garden no longer had public hours since the pandemic and were in no hurry to ever restore it. Maddening. Public spending on parks good, on private gardens bad.

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

JC raised taxes 15% and cut park maintenance. Thursday the council votes to spend $1.2M on a vacant lot — to lease it for $1/yr as a garden open ~610 hrs a year. A developer already has approval for 3- and 4-BR family apartments there. Vote it down. betterblocksnj.org/2026/09/07/a...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 05/09/2026

👎 Two dastardly trends I see in this terrible outcome: 1. Special-interests taking over every aspect of government and inflating costs makes good things look out-of-reach 2. Rails-to-trails is a dangerous coalition. You attract the NIMBYs at the cost of them forever opposing transit

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The Fund for NJ @fundfornj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New Jersey's housing shortage affects more than where people live; it also shapes our state's economic future. A new report from Fund grantee @newjerseyfuture.bsky.social finds that housing production has not kept pace with NJ's growing needs. Read the full report: www.njfuture.org/resources/is...

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 28/08/2026

Jersey City department incompetence begets Jersey City department incompetence. Many years ago people complained about the danger in crossing one street. Not only did they respond with useless yellow pedestrian crossing signs, but they mistakenly installed them on the much safer perpendicular st. /

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 28/08/2026

If you look at WARN layoffs, the NJ pharmaceutical industry has been in some kind of structural decline. NJ housing is far too expensive and most growing companies don't want to locate in random suburban office parks. Losing Samsung to Texas is bad. Could start to impact state finances.

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A proposal for 127 Morgan would build 240 apartments where a 40-space valet lot sits today. The parking lot pays $19,102/yr in property taxes. The 20-story apartment building would pay $2.8M/yr. 140x more. Given the city's finances, why is there any opposition? betterblocksnj.org/2026/08/24/d...

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Jersey City Development: Parking Lot vs 20-Story Building Proposal

Explore the fiscal impact of a proposed 20-story building on Jersey City's tax revenue amid ongoing development debates in the community.

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Upzone New Jersey 🏗️ @upzonenj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Greenville homeowners will be kicked out of their homes because we didn't want to disrupt the views of millionaires living downtown. Make it make sense. The state fiscal monitor needs to step in.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 20/08/2026

Pickled cabbage & carrots in Taiwan is called Shanghainese pickled vegetables. In Shanghai they are called Taiwanese pickled vegetables. At 99 Ranch they are called Cantonese pickled vegetables. We long for the other. 99 Ranch restocked. Get their new randomly in stock goods while you can. IYKYK

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 19/08/2026

Speeding is so obviously a problem on NJ roads. Except to Senator "Insurance Lawyer" Scutari. And the NJ subreddit where there is no greater evil than driving only 10 miles above the speed limit in the left lane.

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SafeStreetsJC @safestreetsjerseycity.org · 17/08/2026

Earlier this month, yet another serious preventable crash happened on our city streets. SafeStreetsJC releases the following statement calling for rapid, low-cost quick-build improvements to all our serious and fatal crash locations, including left-turn calming and leading pedestrian intervals.

On Friday, August 7th at Montgomery & Barrow, yet another left-turning driver hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk in downtown Jersey City, leaving the pedestrian in critical condition. We pray for their quick and full recovery. Last year, at Jersey & 6th and Summit & Sip, two vulnerable road users were killed last year by left-turning vehicles that did not yield. The continued level of injuries of vulnerable road users is unacceptable under Jersey City’s commitment to Vision Zero.

Over a year has passed and no progress has been made on addressing these and other fatal and serious injury crash locations with quick builds and improved street design. Leading pedestrian intervals and banning left turns at key intersections can be done immediately at little cost, if any, to Jersey City; until changes are made, dangerous intersections continue to be dangerous with no relief in sight.

Considering the level of danger on our streets, the time for more studies, more explanations, and more delays is over. We call on Jersey City to get things done and release its plan to reduce injuries at fatal and serious injury intersections, calm left turns, and promote safer, alternative modes of transportation with improved bus priority and building protected bike lanes.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 16/08/2026

The 86 just did me dirty. Coming in one minute. Now coming in an hour. Or is it? The NJ Transit app doesn't show the next 86 as coming either, but then the app also has zero service advisories for the 86 👎👎👎 @customeradvocate.bsky.social

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In other words, low-income people in California tend to live in market-rate housing in places that do *not* have inclusionary zoning at all. At a national level too, low-income people are fleeing states with strict IZ for market rate housing in states that ban IZ altogether.

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New academic study: Inclusionary zoning costs renters $800k per affordable unit created. This is more than the per-unit cost for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. While LIHTC which is largely funded by the rich via income taxes, IZOs are regressive because they place the burden on renters.

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did...did the city make this developer save the tacky, non-original, painted pink stucco side facade of this Journal Square building as historic preservation? Did they think it was original or something? 🥴

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 12/08/2026

There is so much misinformation in NJ about what are the main traffic safety dangers. It is very simple. The vast, vast majority of the issue is: 1. Cars crashing into pedestrians 2. Cars crashing into other cars 3. Cars crashing into fixed, non-moving objects Biking is not getting more dangerous /

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 11/08/2026

Bicycle in Jersey City jerry-rigged for fishing

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Sai-Kit Hui 許世傑 @saikithui.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Flooding, pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars, and ICE agents snatching people all happening in my neighborhood in the past month.

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Official Page for the City of Jersey City @jerseycitynj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mayor James Solomon: This morning a pedestrian was struck by a car at Montgomery & Barrow - leaving them in critical condition. My heart goes out to the victim and their family, and I want to reiterate that the only acceptable number of injuries or fatalities on Jersey City streets is zero.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 06/08/2026

The traces crashes are constantly leaving behind. I don't remember when this crash barrier hasn't been crashed out. It's basically public art at this point. (Still an awesome protected bike lane)

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Bus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It’s great to see a standing room only on a 9-Montgomery bus after 8:30. We advocated for better bus service on the 9 last year but the best we could get was service extended later into the evening. Nonetheless, the demand is there and that’s great to see. Hope we can get better service.

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🚲Bike JC🗽 @bikejc.org · 04/08/2026

This is tonight! Come say hi and get your bike fixed. 6 pm to 9pm at Arlington Park in Jersey City, NJ!

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Eleana Little @eleanalittle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My office was sent this video of masked ICE agents grabbing someone off the street on 2nd St between Erie St. & Jersey Ave. in Ward E. We have also been made aware of additional ICE sightings and abductions in Jersey City today, and have alerted Public Safety. ICE may be targeting delivery cyclists.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 31/07/2026

Police in many parts of Europe are very aggressive about enforcement and seeking out distracted drivers, while also having better designed streets. I don’t think we need to pit these things against each other.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 02/08/2026

NYC DOT: "💡 We've identified a set of extremely bad and deadly drivers. It is very clear and isn't close". War on Cars: "🙈 Enforcement couldn't possibly work, this is whack-a-mole". We should be raising insurance and suspending licenses on these deadly drivers, not discounting enforcement.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 31/07/2026

There is a problem in the Vision Zero community of repeating a disproven and tired line of discounting traffic enforcement. Turning off traffic enforcement created a disaster. Road design didn't get worse yet crash deaths skyrocketed. NYCDOT found 2 cell phone violations / year = 40X KSI crash risk!

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 31/07/2026

What the heck? War on Cars has jumped the shark. It is possible to improve design - but how about holding Apple and other smartphone manufacturers accountable to actually do that?

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Eleana Little @eleanalittle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Join us for a Ward E Budget Town Hall! Over the past week, we've spent hours reviewing the proposed municipal budget, questioning department spending, and identifying opportunities to reduce costs while protecting essential city services.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 30/07/2026

My favorite proposed Meadowlands trails access project is the long-standing plans to connect the Tonnelle Ave HBLR station to the Meadowlands Exposition Center and the surrounding commercial district. Increase HBLR access & ridership and provide a missing link between Secaucus and North Hudson.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 29/07/2026

The e-bike registration law is dumb for many reasons, but one of them is that if this is the hassle people have to go through to register something that puts around at 20mph, then what incentive is there to *not* get a 40mph rocket? Not my thing personally, but some people will go that route now.

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Hudson County Complete Streets @hudcostreets.org · 29/07/2026

We are honored to support Fair Fares NJ. Every New Jerseyan deserves access to transit, and cost should never limit their access. Learn more about the campaign and tell Trenton it’s time to invest in riders: fairfaresnj.org/individual-a... #FairFaresNJ

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Tell Trenton We Need Fair Fares Now! — Fair Fares NJ

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 28/07/2026

"They walk the bridge once a day and pick-up four pickup trucks worth of debris" This is good coverage of the constant stream of material pollution coming off vehicles. My estimation biking locally – most local road debris is also car-related.

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 24/07/2026

It is interesting Murphy's MVC was at the nexus of so much wrongdoing, from vast exports of fraudulently issued temp tags to the rest of the country to the more mundane of impossible waits for appointments and notorious hate-your-customer behavior.

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