The cost of being a fan of your local sports team has increased significantly, to the benefit of players and team owners and to the detriment of fans and the civic good that fandom represents.

Ahh, I see, thank you.

I’m not sure I know what this means about “pedestrian greens”

Cool, I’ll check out @transalt.org sounds like a great group! The Idaho stop sounds like a good policy. I live in a busy part of manhattan so there are pretty much always pedestrians waiting for the light to turn. You gotta wait for the light, then let the bikes zip through the red, then you cross.

Ya, that is fair about anything goes! Interesting about moving enforcement to DOT. Certainly doesn’t seem like NYPD does anything about any of this where I live. A culture of yielding to pedestrians would be helpful for getting pedestrians and bikeriders on the same team.

These are helpful points, thank you. I don’t know much about this stuff, I am just someone who walks around a lot, lol. Are there pro-bike advocacy people working on sensible bike traffic policies? Are bikes supposed to stop at red lights?

Ya, that’s a helpful way of putting it. Wouldn’t make sense to apply the same rules for bikes as for cars. But also wouldn’t make sense to apply no rules at all. I mostly walk around, and it does currently sorta feel like anything goes with people on bikes. I’m not sure how to get to future state.

Ya, I mean, if your fundamental point is that we should have fewer cars and more bikes in the city, I agree with you 100%. To get there, it’s not enough to say “cars are bad.” People have legit concerns about bikes, and ideally we can address those concerns rather than dismissing them as irrational.

Idk if that’s it. For me, cars are pretty predictable. It’s very rare to see a car in nyc just blast through a red light. Whereas it seems bikes usually blast through reds. Almost never see cars driving the wrong direction, not unusual for bikes! I’m pro-bike but wish they’d respect traffic rules.

Idk the details so maybe I’m dead wrong, but this kinda sounds like a plausible cost-control measure that was a threat to anesthesiologists’ massive salaries, and the backlash is a microcosm of why US health insurance is so insanely expensive

Cs cavs game has turned into a free throw shooting contest.

Raise the congestion fee higher and make the entirety of Broadway a lazy river you can tube down in the summer and skate on in the winter

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Air is smoky in NYC this morning.

The legend who got us Varitek and Derek Lowe.

Here's the abstract for #2. Again, this all seems good and appropriate.

What am I missing?

This is what it shows for #2. Tbh this all sounds pretty good. It seems like the Department of Sanitation should be in charge of maintaining the cleanliness of the streets and city property and of deciding how waste is disposed of and collected. That's what the Department of Sanitation is for, no?

The website for the NYC board of elections has the text that will be on the ballots

www.vote.nyc/page/proposi...

All the proposals have to be written at an eighth-grade reading level due to a 2024 law. That seems sort of silly since eighth graders are 13 years old and you have to be 18 to vote. Couldn't we expect a little more of our citizenry?

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place but it seems harder than I'd expect to understand the NYC ballot proposals in detail. For #2-6, googling delivers one million little articles that give a very high-level description and then explain that opponents are opposed because they were rushed by the mayor

a group of men sit at a table in front of a sign that says the long road home ALT: a group of men sit at a table in front of a sign that says the long road home

Daaaaaa jankees lose!

DAAAAAA JANKEES LOSE THE WORLD SERIES

Surprised that smoltz wasn’t more outraged by that bullshit yankee fan trying to rip the ball out of mookie’s glove.

It’s important to remind the Yankees fans in your life that there is precedent for a team coming back from down 0-3 in a playoff series. They need and love to hear it.

Feel like they could consider skipping the commercial break and stay in the stadium as Vesia warms up.

I love to watch Aaron judge strike out. It’s one of my favorite things.

Hell ya playoff baseball is amazing