Jaqi Cohen
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Director of Climate and Equity Policy at @Tri_State . Advisory board member of @NY4ChildCare . Opinions and kvetching all my own.
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I loved Ryan like he was my little brother and I will miss him terribly. He was a tremendous friend, colleague, organizer, confidant, and an absurd force of nature whose light we were robbed from far too soon. I love you Ryan.
I am devastated to share that my dear friend Ryan Carson, who worked for NYPIRG and created the advocacy organization “No OD NY”, was murdered last night. I met Ryan many years ago through the DIY punk scene and he has been a trusted friend in Albany and at home. I miss him.
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48 minute wait… at 9:30am… I just… 😭
@GovKathyHochul
more than half of NYC residents don’t own cars (like me). Waits like this make our city unlivable. We need
#6MinuteService
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Some *news*!
After 10 (!!!) years at NYPIRG, today will be my last day at the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign. I am excited to announce that I will be joining the immensely talented team at Tri-State Transportation Campaign as their new Director of Climate and Equity Policy!
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Maybe the happiest and most at peace I ever saw Ryan was sitting at my kitchen table last week looking at his beautiful partner, Claudia.
i found this note in ryan’s phone. he did, he did, he did.
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I can’t get over this. Imagine literally surviving the holocaust only to be mowed down and killed by an SUV on your way to shul in Brooklyn.
2021 was the deadliest year on NYC streets since vision zero started.
@NYCMayor
what are you doing to reverse the trend in 2022?
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For years, NJ Transit has raided its own capital budget to pay for operations. This has deteriorated NJT service, and riders are left struggling.
Instead of obsessing over congestion pricing,
@GovMurphy
owes it to NJT riders to invest in public transit.
We are suing to block New York’s congestion tolling program. Here’s why.
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Now end the subway curfew so bar and restaurant workers can get home from their jobs
@NYGovCuomo
NEW: Beginning May 17, the 12am outdoor dining area curfew for bars & restaurants will be lifted.
The 12am indoor area curfew will be lifted on May 31.
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The Governor’s reasoning for his unwillingness to raise taxes on the wealthiest NYers is wild when you consider that his MTA is considering taxing essential workers by raising the fare this month for *far* less revenue.
#unfairhike
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Would love to see Cuomo champion transit improvements for NYC residents with the same intensity he does for suburban commuters.
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I’m here in Fort Lee with NJ climate activists to call on
@GovMurphy
to stop his anti-climate, anti-congestion pricing lawsuit and
#FundNJTRANSIT
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I went to see To Kill A Mockingbird tonight- before the show ended a motorcycle outside the theater backfired and everyone inside thought the sound was gunshots in the theater
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Buses are too crowded because service is too infrequent. Instead of fighting each other for limited space, we should unite to call on our State and City for more frequent service and new bus lanes. A more accessible transit system for EVERYONE is possible.
A group of NYC moms have for months advocated at MTA board meetings for strollers to be allowed on buses.
That's caused tension with disability advocates, including a blind speaker today who called the moms "lazy"
"We did not choose to be disabled, but you chose to be a mother"
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When a white supremacist did this in Charlottesville,
@NYCMayor
called it (correctly) an act of domestic terror
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30+ years since the passage of the ADA and STILL less than a quarter of all NYC subway stations are accessible.
@GovKathyHochul
- we need a commitment for a fully accessible subway system now!
Thanks to
@RidersAlliance
and
@RepGraceMeng
for amplifying this call!
#AccessDenied
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Buses make it better.
#SaveTransit
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Open streets that ignore accessibility are not it. We have to do both.
(great interview with
@Eman_Rimawi
in this piece by
@JohnSurico
)
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Every day I walk past this intersection to get my toddler to daycare and I’m reminded of Dolma’s story and how dangerous our streets are.
This bill is common sense for a city like ours. Thanks to my rep
@ZohranKMamdani
and honorary Astorian
@Sen_Gounardes
for sponsoring it.
80% of children killed on NYC streets are killed by an SUV or other large vehicle, and cars continue to get bigger every year. Proud to launch legislation with
@ZohranKmamdani
to adjust vehicle fees based on their weight and make our streets safer.
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Glad to see
@NYGovCuomo
drive the point home that our public transit system is an extension of our healthcare system as we NEED to get nurses, doctors, healthcare workers and other frontline employees to work. Congress must protect transit in any
#COVID19
economic stimulus.
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My op-ed with
@NJPolicy
's
@alexfromNJ
from today's Bergen Record: if
@GovMurphy
really wants to stick it to NY's congestion pricing plan, the best thing he can do is invest in NJ Transit.
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It's almost like we should have congestion pricing or something...
Despite most households not owning cars, New York City is suffering from more traffic congestion than anywhere else in the country — surpassing Los Angeles for the first time in nearly four decades.
New York also ranks
#1
in the commuter stress index.
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Popular opinion: the transit authority should spend its money on transit.
NOW❗️Riders and State Legislators are coming together to tell
@NYGovCuomo
to invest $249 million in a subway
#ServiceHike
instead of 500 new MTA police!
🔥
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Hey, it’s me!
“The indefatigable activist wasn't afraid to stand up to the mayor for not taking her advice on Mobility”.
Hell yea.
@jaqicohen
is
#42
in the
@CityAndStateNY
Transportation Power 100!
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This is a devastating cut to a vital program for hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers. A million steps backwards from achieving transit equity.
"It was an effective, important program." -- Bill de Blasio, confirming that he is cutting $65 million from Fair Fares
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Today we joined our union and EJ advocacy partners in Red Hook to launch the Clean Deliveries Campaign and demand online retailers like Amazon be held accountable for heavy pollution from delivery trips.
@MMitaynes
and
@SenGianaris
' Clean Deliveries Act will do just that.
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Thank you Senator
@jessicaramos
for supporting
#congestionpricing
and for being a champion for NYC’s workers and transit riders 🙌
#FixTheSubway
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1.6% of NJ commuters drive to the CBD. 77% take public transit.
"We crunched this data, and it revealed to us that there is more panic in the discussion than warranted in terms of impacts on New Jersey drivers"-
@FPRinBklyn
🔥🔥🔥
@Tri_State
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"The City should add 100 miles of bus lanes over the next two years, with a special emphasis on increasing access to non-Manhattan commercial corridors" !!!
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Cuomo has diverted millions of dollars away from transit for years.
Cuomo:
#stateofthestate
- we must improve the NYC subway system, it is a question of funding. We need short-term funding this year for emergency repair and long-term funding to address growing traffic
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Some non-COVID content for you: We had my late grandfather’s 8mm digitized and just watched it for the first time last night- discovered lots of amazing footage from the ‘64 World’s Fair!
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NYC’s buses are the slowest👏in👏America👏. A disproportionate # of bus riders are essential workers, immigrants, and POC.
@NYCMayor
- will you keep your promise and commit to speeding up buses 25% this year?
#BetterBuses
#AskTheMayor
@BrianLehrer
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Super impressed with the turnout at tonight’s
@NYC_DOT
workshop about 31st Ave. Astorians want safe streets (with bike lanes)!
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It’s not every day that I get to be in a room with some of public transit’s staunchest champions but here we’re here with
@GovKathyHochul
to celebrate the advancement of congestion pricing and investment in public transit, NYC’s most important public infrastructure.
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I am forever awed by the bravery and power of these mothers who have lost their children to traffic violence, and of all the members of
@NYC_SafeStreets
.
Shame on you
@NYSA_Majority
for letting it get to this point.
BREAKING:
@NYC_SafeStreets
members Amy Cohen and Fabiola Mendieta-Cuapio are starting a hunger strike at 11 a.m. tomorrow until
@CarlHeastie
holds a vote on Sammy's Law.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly want this bill. Albany must stop playing politics with our children's lives.
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Is it a coincidence that the proposed fare hike would raise the same amount of money that the governor is looking to divert from the MTA? No. The gov would rather raise taxes on working class New Yorkers with an
#unfairhike
than tax the rich:
Gimme the money!
Cuomo wants to yank $145M from MTA to help state budget
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As if things weren't scary enough- an SUV just crashed into a coffee shop around the corner from my apartment. *Especially* as more ppl are opting to walk and cycle to get around, the last thing we should need to fear right now are vehicles plowing down the sidewalk.
@NYCMayor
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ICYMI: The governor proposed a budget that steals $145 million from the MTA (the same amount of $ expected to be raised from the proposed fare hike). Both houses of the legislature said no.
#StopTheRaids
Statement on One-House Budgets: Legislature Rejects Governor’s Extraordinary Budget Powers and Raid on MTA Funds. We thank the Legislature for restoring $145M in MTA dedicated funds.
@LeroyComrie
@AmyPaulin
@SenGianaris
@JeffreyDinowitz
@ridersalliance
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May I present to you the crowning achievement of my career: a dreidel song parody about buses 🚌
#BusTurnaround
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“What he would want to avenge his death is for us to fix how broken this city is.”
“I know he would have wanted people to use his death as a means to talk about structural wrongs in the city,” Melissa Lozada-Oliva said about the the unprovoked killing of her friend Ryan Thoresen Carson.
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This is our reality. In a country, in a WEEK, where so many people have been murdered by gun violence,we can’t go anywhere without thinking this could be our reality.
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Had a great morning surveying bus riders in Yonkers- some of the things riders wanted to see included shorter wait times, more weekend service, and benches at bus stops.
#BetterBeeLine
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Hey
@SenSchumer
: your fellow Brooklynites are counting on you to
#RescueRiders
with a fully funded MTA- NYC’s recovery depends on it!
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Opening 100 miles of NYC streets to the public right now is a big deal- putting people first by allowing NYers to keep a safe distance is critical for our collective health and safety. Thank you
@NYCMayor
and
@NYCCouncil
for coming to an agreement and doing the right thing.
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"Widening highways to incentivize more driving during a climate emergency is absolute insanity"-
@LiamBlank
@GovKathyHochul
- inducing demand on the Van Wyck harms frontline communties and our climate. Invest this money in transit instead.
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This L-train presentation has yet to address what we all want to know most- how long will this rehab take? How will service be impacted? Will we still get new elevators/bus lanes/longer trains?
#WhatTheL
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A PSA: this week I got COVID & antibody tests-I am normally a very big baby about going to the doctor but the nurses at
@NYCHealthSystem
in Fort Greene were amazing and the test wasn’t scary and I got both results in 24hrs (happy to report COVID free 👏)
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Public bailouts over corporate bailouts. Period.
New York City's MTA, the largest public transportation system in North America, is seeking a $4 billion federal bailout. Subway ridership has plunged 60% during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sorry but I always thought being "New York Tough" meant not putting up with bullshit from men.
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The nation’s transit agencies asking for $25b+ for emergency relief from the fed is completely reasonable. Boeing has requested more than twice as much.
#TransitIsEssential
Heads of the nation's 10 largest public transit agencies call on Congress to allocate ~at least~ $25B in relief through coronavirus stimulus package.
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The actors on stage fled, everyone started screaming and stampeding, I yelled and fell to the floor and tried to push my husband toward the exit.
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Happy birthday
@rebeccabailin
!!! I hope you take a short break from eating the rich today to have some birthday cake 🍰
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We’re back, baby!
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Our students showed up today in support of
#CongestionPricing
to
#FixTheSubway
because they are fighting for a cleaner environment, a more accessible transit system, and a more equitable New York.
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👏👏You love to see
@MTA
and
@NYC_DOT
working together to bring
#BetterBuses
to our streets 👏👏
Complete with:
✅All-door boarding
✅Accessible bus platforms
✅Restarting network redesigns
✅Expanded transit signal priority
✅More miles of bus lanes and bus ways
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Listen- lots of ambitious projects in
@GovKathyHochul
SOTS and budget. But highway widening in Queens is the exact *opposite* direction of where we need to be headed in order to rectify historic racial inequity in transportation planning in NYC.
Statement on NYS Budget Proposal:
"While the Governor’s budget puts forth a number of ambitious priorities that will strengthen the region, the budget also includes counterintuitive priorities that will move New York in the wrong direction."
Read more:
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I was excited to see
@sbgoldensohn
at today’s
#AccessNow
rally... but he couldn’t make it because every single accessible station near our event he attempted to go to had broken elevators! We need more elevators and we need them to work!
@NYGovCuomo
@MTA
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In very good company up in Albany at today’s joint transportation budget hearing. Women of transit advocacy, unite!
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How about more frequent subway service, new bus routes in the Bronx, and an expansion of unlimited on-demand e-hail Access-A-Ride to start?
“250 million at a time when the MTA is on a fiscal cliff, at a time when crime is at an all time low, is ridiculous. If the MTA needs a list of things to better spend their money on, I’d be glad to advise them,”
@Straphangers
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I’m at today’s MTA board meeting with my colleague, Gene Russianoff, to testify in the need for expansion of Access-A-Ride’s e-hail service.
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Extremely cool to have Senate Majority Leader
@SenSchumer
meet with hundreds of
@NYPIRG
students and organizers across NYS today to talk about the importance of advocacy in New York!
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Having to wait almost 30 min to transfer from the subway to the bus at 6:30PM is beyond words. NYers can’t live or commute like this! We need
#6MinuteService
@GovKathyHochul
@RidersAlliance
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Testified at today's very painless
@MTA
congestion pricing hearing for Connecticut- important to remember that congestion pricing helps fight against the effects of climate change and improves transit for the region, not just within the CBD.
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Jackie Cohen? Don’t know her!
Here’s
@jaqicohen
of
@Straphangers
getting the Marrow Pelican treatment on the captioning at MTA World HQ.
#TGDOTM
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If there's one thing about me you need to know, it's that I hate a slow bus!
@NYCMayor
@LincolnRestler
.
@Tri_State
’s
@jaqicohen
asking where the “Bus Mayor” Adams is after years of campaigning on fixing the nation’s slowest buses as both BP Adams and Mayoral candidate Adams.
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When folks talk about defunding police, what they mean is: maybe use the funds that currently pay for tasing and abusing unarmed black men and use them towards reduced-fares or free transit instead.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
A gang of
@NYPDnews
officers swarmed onto a train, jumped on and tased a young Black Man. They accused him of fare evasion and many witnesses on the train, tried to explain to the cops that he did pay his fare.
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A rail or bus line that makes it easier for me and
@rebeccabailin
to hang out? I'm not saying she did this intentionally, but seems like when women are in the governor's office, best friendships win?
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Can't "improvise" a bus lane. Can't "improvise" a way to make our transit safe and reliable. We need strong leadership and we need a plan.
Wait, what?
"There’s not always a chance to help people all the time in terms of their transportation needs,"
@NYCMayor
tells
@chayesmatthew
about how NYers will get back to work w/o a safe mass transit system.
"People are going to have to improvise and I believe they will"
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FYI: I *am* a legally ordained minister and I *will* marry you from my second floor fire escape.
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This is very good news. Now let’s win progressive revenue so the fare *stays* affordable.
MTA chief, and chairman of its board, Pat Foye, out with the statement on delay of fare hikes for several months
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As a New York Jew who is married to a Californian Jew, I must ask you
@nytimes
why are you doing this to me.
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Love hearing the caller on
@BrianLehrer
who moved back to NYC from TX during the pandemic because of our public transit. Transit is integral to NY's recovery.
#SaveTransit
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I am dead.
Ope, looks like someone tried to vote for the acting MTA chairman for mayor but called him "Lieger" instead of "Lieber."
In any case he lagged behind transit advocate
@jaqicohen
and, uhhh, the other Subway guy.
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This whole thing could use a whole lotta sunlight. Let the public weigh in on the plan!
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We transit advocates are very serious people-
We’re getting feral on Fordham!
We’re out at
@FordhamNYC
with the very flora and fauna
@BronxZoo
and
@NYBG
claim to care about to call out their bull-💩 opposition to a new busway!
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"The length of their parents commutes can be one of the biggest factors in predicting upward mobility for children. More than coming from a two parent home. More than their test scores."
@jonquilynhill
masterfully connects transit to equity in this great listen.
.
@SecretaryPete
on America’s deadly roads: ���We should all be up in arms about roadway deaths in this country.”
Read or listen to our conversation on the latest episode of The Weeds.
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On behalf of NYC’s 2 million daily bus riders, a huge thank you to
@nily
and
@LizKrueger
for championing the expansion of bus lane camera enforcement. This is a tremendous win for every single one of us who rides the bus 🙌😊🚌
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Just filled this out and encouraging my fellow Astorians to do the same!
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YES PLEASE.
#TransformTransit
Tom Cotton to Pat Toomey, overheard walking onto the floor: “What is Chuck Schumer going to do, upgrade every rail in the New York City Subway system?”
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If you want to know if a reservation system is a good idea, ask anyone who uses Access-A-Ride😑
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Thousands of workers have been left in the lurch, wondering when 24/7 service will be restored.
@NYGovCuomo
- I can think of no better way to celebrate NY's low infection rate than by bringing back late-night subway service to those keeping our city afloat.
After long shifts on the frontlines, late night workers face an unwelcome challenge: no subway service.
@TransitCenter
urges
@NYGovCuomo
to restore 24-hour service for thousands of hospital, airport, pharmacy, & bodega workers.
@RidersAlliance
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Zoom in for a look at how I’m handling motherhood.
We are suckers for a great ribbon-cutting, especially on a new dedicated bus lane on 21st St. in Astoria. 5.4 miles down this year and 14.6 to go!
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Here at today’s
@NYCCouncil
joint oversight hearing on Access-A-Ride.
@MTA
recently announced plans to gut its transformative on-demand AAR pilot, we’re here to say
#WeDemandOnDemand
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For example- the stock transfer tax has already raised over $4 billion this year and was fully rebated back to Wall Street. The fare hike on subway and bus riders will raise $79 million. The fare hike is a tax hike on working New Yorkers
#unfairhike
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If THIS is what happens on a rainy Thursday in July, how on earth are we prepared for the next Sandy-sized storm?!
Reason
#3937293
why we need need Congress to approve new and sustained federal funding for transit.
#TransformTransit
@SenSchumer
@RepJeffries
New Yorkers wade through underground lakes as subway stations flood
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Lol, k.
.
@NYGovCuomo
says if a subway car or bus is crowded, try to take the next one and avoid other densely packed places as NY tally hits 105 coronavirus cases
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As the president of the
@rebeccabailin
fan club, I’m kvelling!
Gotta shout out
@rebeccabailin
from
@RidersNY
. She first mentioned
#FairFares
to me over coffee about 3 YEARS ago. And she never stopped. Bravo, sister! Like
@CoreyinNYC
said, today simply doesn't happen without the advocates.
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My brilliant colleague
@LiamBlank
authored this report which envisions the rail network our region deserves. Check it out!
NEW REPORT: Commuter rail is dead. The NYC region needs a unified Regional Rail network, with frequent, all-day service, accessible stations, and modern electric trains. We could have a great transit system, but it all depends on Penn Station.
➡️
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Not every rider can pay $127 upfront each month for an unlimited-ride MetroCard. With fare capping, they wouldn't have to.
"Fare capping would ensure that all riders have access to the same unlimited fare option, whether they could afford to pay upfront or not."
-Jaqi Cohen, Director of Climate & Equity Policy
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Everybody loves somebody who went to CUNY- for me, it’s my mom (I went to SUNY!).
I’m so proud to know you
@juvaniepiquant
, and thanks for fighting for a
#NewDeal4CUNY
in Albany,
@Sen_Gounardes
!
If you do anything today, please read this piece by
@ericlach
, where
@agounardes
& I talk about the importance of CUNY funding.
The Case for More CUNY Funding | The New Yorker
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