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Seth Rieder

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We heard you want your buses fast, free from traffic, and on-time. Attend the Hudson County Bus Rapid Transit meeting this Wednesday to help make that a reality. betterblocksnj.org/2026/09/21/w...
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Travis Fedschun @travfed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As we’ve seen with the PATH, increase weekend service and the riders will come. It’s time to improve service on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and look for opportunities for further expansion. Take action here: hudcostreets.org/hblr www.nj.com/news/2026/07...
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Push is on to expand commuter rail service in this overcrowded part of N.J.
The group that won more frequent PATH train service has set its sights on Hudson Bergen Light Rail, circulation petitions asking NJ Transit for more trains and future expansion.
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SafeStreetsJC @safestreetsjerseycity.org · 14/07/2026
SafeStreetsJC released an op-ed describing ways for Jersey City to increase revenue from parking reform instead of raising property taxes. One way is increased fees at parking meters. Did you know that Jersey City’s parking meter fees are usually only $0.75 and haven’t been updated in years?
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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Jersey City needs this at five corners, I've been begging for "circular traffic diverters" at that spot and the response from infra is always tepid. Like, don't they want to fix the mess?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/05/2026
I appreciate this, but I don't think a lack of policy ideas is really the problem. We know how to push back against car-centric development. It's just that most Americans have been marinating in pro-car propaganda their entire lives & cars have made them selfish & sociopathic.
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Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them
Turning parking bays into green spaces and prioritising cyclists may be the fastest routes to improving urban life
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I wanted to add to this one. 1) Some people have bad taste and it’s showing in the comments. The build on the right is objectively bad. 2) Here’s some great examples of simple boxes that are brand new from my neighborhood. And these don’t showcase the well done modernist ones.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16/08/2025
Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes
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Justine Underhill @justineunderhill.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What if iconic places like the Pantheon or the Louvre had to follow U.S. parking laws?
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Jersey City has been doing an ok job of daylighting but really lacking on street flood mitigation via green infrastructure. Hoping to see more on par with Hoboken and NYC on that front.
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Bus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Govenor @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Thank you for your executive order, but there are a lot of issues with the HBLR that will take more than 45 days to resolve. 20-30 min off peak service is bad enough, but when trains are frequently taken out of service, that means riders have to wait 40 minutes.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jersey City's existing 15% mandatory IZO downtown has been in place since 2021. Affordable units built under it without a PILOT? Zero. The new mayor ran on the promise to expand this IZO mandate to 20% and make it citywide. Learn more about what IZOs are. betterblocksnj.org/2026/02/08/t...
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is a great thread. Glad Hochul is pushing to change SEQRA. Greenfield single family subdivisions are far more destructive to the environment than multi-family.
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Turnpike Trap @turnpiketrap.org · 03/03/2026
🚨🎉💪 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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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I'm sorry but the Port Authority going over budget on all of their fun Newark Airport construction, is the reason we don't have a PATH extension to Newark Airport in the capital plan. They need to get more serious about moving large numbers of people efficiently. And this just isn't it.
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Larry Higgs @commutinglarry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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...
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Eric Allen Conner @eaconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Good news! While Jersey City needs to do more to regulate parking demand, it is encouraging to see the Council President take steps to expand permit parking zones to Communipaw near the light rail station. Hopefully, one day soon, that parking lot is turned into dense, mixed-use, high-rise housing.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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…
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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.
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Oregon's state senate just voted to ban unfunded inclusionary zoning, recognizing that it makes housing *less* affordable, not more affordable.
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 14/02/2026
This is so spot on
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The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40
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An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 08/01/2026
Since 2010, Jersey City has been building 4x as much housing as NYC. The result? Rents stopped rising—and now they may be falling. New York City could do the same, says @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
This City's Housing Boom Is a Model for Mamdani
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
When transportation urbanists go back home for the holidays and have to ride in a car for everything they do.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Legislators in Trenton should vote against the e-bike bill because it: 1) is a de facto ban on Citibike and other popular bike share programs in NJ; 2) puts the livelihoods of many restaurants at risk; and 3) makes low-cost transportation unaffordable and inaccessible.
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Alex Ambrose @alexfromnj.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
State lawmakers are restricting access to safe & affordable mobility options while not actually solving any safety problems. Add your name and tell Trenton to hit the brakes on this bad e-bike bill! actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
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Save Low-Speed E-Bikes! Stop S4834 / A6235
In just a single month, a new bill requiring a drivers license, registration, and insurance to ride the lowest-speed e-bikes has been racing through the legislature, despite unanimous opposition from ...
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"These ebikes are out of control and we need to regulate them now!"
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Upzone New Jersey 🏗️ @upzonenj.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
CitiBike threatens to leave New Jersey over insane Nick Scutari e-bike bill. www.instagram.com/stories/citi...
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/12/2025
Cookie cutters are how we get lots of pretty cookies without too much work.
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Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A few weeks ago, PATH announced a series of service expansions that will finally reverse this trend. Though paired with a rather steep fare increase, these changes will finally put weekend PATH service levels above where they were 25 years ago. Huge congrats to all the advicates who made this happen
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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Celebrating this project is annoying, a shiny object. Instead they could have followed their capital plan to connect the PATH to the Airport, serving loads more travelers and employees. This would have improved a critical regional connection between the airport and Newark, Jersey City, and NYC.
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Bus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Hey Ciudad Jersey, can you take a moment to fill out this survey about the city’s master transportation plan. If you could share this link to any of your family and friends in the city. letsmove-jerseycity.hub.arcgis.com
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Let's Move JC
Discover, analyze and download data from Let's Move JC. Download in CSV, KML, Zip, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF or PNG. Find API links for GeoServices, WMS, and WFS. Analyze with charts and thematic maps. Take th...
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We have thoughts on NJTransit priorities! betterblocksnj.org/2025/11/05/t...
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Transforming New Jersey: A Mass Transit Roadmap for Gov. Sherrill
Explore how Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill can transform New Jersey's transit with key projects that boost economy and reduce congestion.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We did the math on Solomon’s affordable housing plan so you don’t have to. Unfortunately, it provides very little affordability or housing for homeowners and renters alike and could raise property 22% by forcing the city to subsidize all new development.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Better Blocks NJ endorses Bill O'Dea for mayor of Jersey City. betterblocksnj.org/2025/10/16/the-j…
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Solomon's affordable housing plan basically abolishes by-right zoning in JC. Every single big building will be subject to a city council vote on a PILOT in order to make it financially viable. There will be shakedowns for more parking and scaling down plans, as well as opportunities for corruption.
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I guess @citibikenyc.bsky.social listened too well! Zero parking available at all the stations below.
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Meanwhile over in Communipaw it’s the exact opposite. The stations either never have bikes or have very few. System definitely needs some better management. @citibikenyc.bsky.social
Map of citi bike stations in Communipaw neighborhood of Jersey City
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Bus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We should be building this stuff in NJ. Traffic is awful, trains are overcapacity and poor air quality is making us sick. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social we’re just wasting lots and lots of money demolishing an expressway and rebuilding it just to add a lane - which will just make traffic worse!
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Bus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just imagine @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, what we could accomplish if we ran frequent service, expanded service to the Ironbound and Newark Penn, fix PATH, improve bus service - then we won’t need to waste billions to demolish a highway & rebuild it just to add ONE lane of traffic.
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Meeting on street safety and street redesign in Communipaw/Lafayette
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great thread covering Solomon’s housing platform - as well as some nice counter points from @3underscores.bsky.social
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another parking lot finally bites the dust. 680 homes & retail on just half the parking lot at 242 Hudson St. 68-story tower. The other half is destined for another apartment building. This project was stalled for almost 5 years.
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ground-floor rendering of Namdar's first 48-story towers in Journal Square. Will bring about 1,700 apartments with no parking to Summit Ave between Pavonia and Van Reipen. Two other towers are already under construction on the same block.
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JC Policy Circle @jcpolicycircle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In reaction to a recent pedestrian death, JC’s downtown councilman and mayoral candidate, Solomon, is coming out swinging on street safety reform with a bunch of suggestions for improvement.
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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A bill before the New Jersey legislature sponsored by LD-31's Assemblywoman McCann-Stamato could lead to greater housing affordability in New Jersey. New York, Austin, and Denver all do it. Why can't NJ? Read why we need it by @3underscores.bsky.social betterblocksnj.org/2025/06/01/s...
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Single-Stair Reform: A Solution for New Jersey's Housing Crisis
Explore how single-stair reform in New Jersey can reduce housing costs, enhance safety, and improve community walkability.
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Seth Rieder @sethrieder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is why I’m concerned about pretty much all JC mayoral candidates’ housing plans.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect
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•@CityPortland's 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn't spark affordability
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From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I absolutely love all of the neo-art deco that’s been built in NYC recently
Brooklyn towerRose hill buildingThe Fitzroy
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Turnpike Trap @turnpiketrap.org · 15/05/2025
Great rally, thank you to our elected leaders and community members for standing up and fighting back. Two of tonight's many highlights: 1. 👏 Mayor @stevenfulop.bsky.social promised litigation to slow down and stop this project 2. ❤️ Our youngest advocate & speaker an 11-year old LCCS student!
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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NJ is having a primary right now - and there are still a lot of candidates who are staying quiet or supporting the Turnpike Expansion. This is an $11B project to DOUBLE the size of a highway. The next governor will decide if this is how NJ residents money should be spent.
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