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14 hours

Commute, University District (Detroit) to Kitab Cafe and Bookstore (Hamtramck), via 6 Mile (McNichols) and Joseph Campau. Sometimes you just gotta cycle six mile. The Joe Louis Greenway from Hamilton to Campau can't open soon enough.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

I don't know how to break this to you but you are not a Subaru and you don't own the street in front of your house.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

5 months

The fact that we make public spaces sterile and miserable for families and children is a choice based on our country's core value of hating poor people.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

5 months

This video of “public transit in Finland” seems to be blowing people’s mind. Via joshlevine485.

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@cyclesixmile

27 days

Cities are shit holes, that's why I only go there for nice dinners and events.

Doctor Gonzo

@DoctorGonzo__

27 days

@JGitto We aren’t “afraid”. Most cities are shit holes and we only go there for nice dinners/events. Learn the difference.

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@cyclesixmile

3 months

Imagine not parking it on the sidewalk.

The Surfing CyberSurgeon©️ 🔪 🏄‍♂️🤙 ☮️

@thecybersurg

3 months

Imagine waking up to this every morning. I’m like a kid on Christmas Day every day! Fkn love the Cybertruck

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@cyclesixmile

5 months

Instead of going into debt so I can daily drive a pickup truck in the city, I occasionally pay $20 to rent a trailer for the day.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

We were parked there, on the public street not blocking a driveway or fire hydrant, for two hours and discovered the note as we were leaving. Some of you need to relax. And remember that you don't own the street in front of your house.

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@cyclesixmile

11 months

I wish I was smart enough to finance a pickup truck for $700 per month so I didn't have to pay $20 to rent a trailer two or three times per year.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@Greytaitai In this case the Subaru driver was still able to park directly in front of their house (as mentioned in the note). They also could have parked in their private driveway leading up to their private garage.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@theSprocket_Alt I would simply not live in that neighborhood.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@roqueadeleon Because we don't live in that neighborhood. I park in my driveway when I'm at my house.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@IanGriff They have a privately owned driveway and garage. The street is public.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Amazing how my almost 100 year old house with no air conditioning can stay relatively cool even on an 88° day. Almost like they knew what they were doing.

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@cyclesixmile

2 months

@joesakthatsme Yeah that's one of the more confusing parts about this.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

4 months

Except that people have literally died doing this. That's why parking in bike lanes and on sidewalks is illegal. It's because it's dangerous. It's not just to spite drivers. The lives of my child and I are more important than an Amazon delivery.

LuxuryVacationRentalGuy

@LuxuryVacatio12

4 months

@thomasc818 I’ve done a fair amount of cycling and can’t imagine why there’s so much bitching about things that really aren’t that much of an issue. Just stop crying and go. Around.

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@cyclesixmile

2 months

A lot of these replies justify the truck by claiming that it's safer than the bike... That says a lot about America re: rights vs. responsibilities.

Ben LeRoy ✡️🇵🇸

@LeRoyLandUse

2 months

Each of these vehicles carried one person to this store.

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@cyclesixmile

2 years

I have a bike. I ride it for recreation. I only commuted with it a few times. I got an electric cargo bike. I commute with it, go to the grocery store, and go out to dinner or events with friends. E-bikes don't replace bikes, they replace cars. Eliminating car trips is good.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

5 months

And while everyone is free to make their own financial decisions, I do have an issue with people daily driving large trucks in the city purely for commuting or errand running purposes. They're dangerous, polluting, anti-social, and take up far too much space in urban areas.

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@cyclesixmile

2 years

@_david_ho_

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@cyclesixmile

10 months

No one is currently using those cars, either. Clearly a waste of resources to manufacture them all.

Lynn Kittel

@MillCityGirl2

10 months

I’d a beautiful fall Sunday afternoon yet not a single biker on that expensive new bike lane on South 2nd Street. Plenty of cars, though @LauraGMitchell

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@cyclesixmile

6 months

Dan Siroker

@dsiroker

6 months

What are the best examples of boring technology that work exceptionally well and aren’t overhyped?

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

Extend the people mover all over the city but make it this:

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@cyclesixmile

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@cyclesixmile

2 months

@cyto_chrome They have a privately owned driveway and garage and in this case they still had a spot to park right in front of their house, as mentioned in the note.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

I wish Detroit had commuter rail trains with depressing interiors 😭😭😭

Will - Papal Supremacy Arc

@MassJumbo

3 months

The interior of the commuter rail trains in Boston are so depressing

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@cyclesixmile

3 months

I am interested in biking for transportation and pretty much only that kind of biking. Is that normal? I don't have much interest in mountain biking, road biking, or pretty much anything that requires taking a bike somewhere with a car (unless I need the bike to go somewhere).

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

Leaf blowers are like cars. In some ways it's better when they're electric, but in other ways... We'd be better off without them altogether.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 years

Detroit once had a bike grid. Before cars, it was... every street. We can and should end the 100+ year failed experiment of the private automobile in our cities.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

11 months

@RealLuckless It worries me that someone who can't back up a trailer would daily drive a huge pickup truck.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

7 months

It should not be cheaper to buy a new car.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer

@GovWhitmer

7 months

You got a fast car I got a plan to lower the cost

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@cyclesixmile

10 months

My boss: "You rode your bike today? But it's cold out." What has happened to us? We live in Michigan. 30F is not that cold.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

5 months

This guy working on my house drives a pickup truck... that he just uses to pull an enclosed trailer. Can someone explain how a van would not be easier, safer, cheaper? Then he could daily drive whatever he wants. Oh right, he wants to drive a truck. That's the answer.

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@cyclesixmile

2 years

You can cope and seethe or just get a bike.

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@cyclesixmile

2 months

@ssspenz Lol.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

7 months

Fascism isn't funny, but this specific thing is.

Ben Von Klemperer

@BVKImages

7 months

Many thousands of #nyc commuters use these turnstiles correctly every day. But these white nationalist demonstrators who marched here on Saturday seemed to struggle with it.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

20 days

I regret to inform Middle Eastern food haters that this costs $10.58 in Hamtramck.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

1 year

I had to park in the bike lane to take a picture of this ridiculous bike lane parking sign.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

27 days

@rightorrightnow Third world hellscapes with fully booked fancy restaurants and fun events.

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@cyclesixmile

4 months

Live view from inside DEMOCRAT controlled Detroit!! The crime! The tyranny! The corruption!

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@cyclesixmile

2 months

@Hylias_ You don't have the right to park your car in front of your house. I'm sorry, but that right doesn't exist.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

He said "whatever it cost, it's worth it if you can get around without your car." He told me he just put over 4 grand into his car this month right after finally paying it off. People know that cars are a scam, they want alternatives.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

5 months

I think that's all the important stuff...

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 years

I could post the same video every morning. I probably shouldn't bother, but my hope is that by keeping a record of this it will help if someone is injured here.

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@cyclesixmile

27 days

@DoctorGonzo__ I took these pictures in Mexico, all of these people were afraid to leave the resort but I guess they found the courage somehow.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

11 months

This meal cost me $78 at DTW. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

8 months

New e-bike issue: I didn't drive my car for so long that the battery died.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@Digi6x @Greytaitai You're right, no one should ever visit this neighborhood 👍

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

1 year

Before cars, every street was a bike path.

Coney Island History

@ConeyHistory

1 year

#129years ago today, June 15, 1894, Ocean Parkway bike path, first in the US, opened. Pandemic-delayed repairs to the bike path funded in 2019 by former CM @MarkTreyger718 are finally underway! 📷 Sheet music for New York & Coney Island Cycle March Two-Step @nypl_lpa

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

4 months

Hamtramck, Michigan's most densely populated city (and an enclave of Detroit), is making strides towards even more density with city council approving construction of new four-unit multiplexes like this one that just went up on Gallagher Street.

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@cyclesixmile

1 year

E-biking might not be "real exercise" but it's real enough for me! My 34 miles biked yesterday would have been 0 miles without an e-bike. Also, I think "exercise" would not place in the top five reasons of why I bike and why I encourage anyone to try it.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Buy an e-bike.

Anna

@itsafronomics

3 months

In exactly ONE week, I turn 28 and I wanted to know, especially from those 30 and older, what advice you give your 28 year old self?

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5 months

@grumblechuk I agree, thanks!

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@cyclesixmile

5 months

I owned and enjoyed driving a couple of pickups, a Chevy Colorado and a Dodge Dakota, but neither had the utility of this station wagon plus trailer hitch. I thought they would be practical for camping, fishing, home projects, but they honestly weren't that great.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

Cyclists never stop at red lights.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

7 months

Whoa Whitmer just announced a moratorium on gas stations, drive thrus, and highway widening!

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

16 days

Drivers, without looking it up, what do these markings mean?

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@cyclesixmile

7 months

And where did the driver come to a stop?

JC Reindl

@jcreindl

7 months

Cybertruck in the Cass Corridor

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

I just talked to a guy outside Ace Hardware about the Urban Arrow. When it came time for him to ask how much it cost, I did my usual "it's pretty expensive, but..."

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

Would you feel safe biking here? Would you feel safe letting your child bike here? The raised and separated bike lane is good, but the intersection design is dangerous. I count 9 drivers failing to yield at full speed.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

This machine makes it so easy to leave the car at home. Bikes like this expand the definition of what bikes (and riders) are capable of. I never thought I'd be able to bike over 2500 miles in a year in Detroit, but here we are, locked up at work, after daycare drop off, again.

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@cyclesixmile

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@RyanJC2009

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

10 months

About to drive from Detroit to Lansing, Michigan's largest city to its capital city. Why isn't there a train??

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

11 months

@SharpGoBlue Because it's not just a personal financial choice. It has negative consequences for our communities, a high cost not just for the owner but all of society.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

7 months

The government should provide every 14 year old with a RadRunner and every family with a RadWagon (or equivalent).

Adatimum

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7 months

What is your most unique or rare political view?

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

1 year

If a driver yells "get out of the road!" and you yell "you get out of the road!" back, they do not like that.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

19 days

One of the best free places in Detroit, honestly. How do we replicate this feeling in every neighborhood?

Sam Robinson

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

16 days

Now for a really hard one, one does this sign mean?

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

Hi, when I was poor and on food stamps I loved using them at the farmers market because they would double my money for already well priced fresh fruit and vegetables grown in Michigan that I couldn't have afforded otherwise.

memetic_sisyphus

@memeticsisyphus

2 months

The farmers market by my house accepts food stamps. Which is one of those things people who don’t know any real poor people think is a great idea. That theory of mind that says poor people are me without money.

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6 months

Still can't believe they put the bike lanes on the wrong side of the planters 😫

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@cyclesixmile

8 months

Me when my family asks how things are going in Detroit:

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 years

Hey @detroitpolice where are drivers supposed to stop when waiting at a red light?

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

6 months

I can by several very nice EVs that are not cars for the price of one EV car.

Hank Green

@hankgreen

6 months

If you don't want an EV for your next car, what is holding you back?

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@cyclesixmile

4 months

One of the worst bike racks I have ever seen 😂 😭

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@cyclesixmile

27 days

The guy in Lycra, special shoes, and drop bars checking strava vs me biking my daughter to daycare and stopping at the hardware store on the way home.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

9 months

We will do anything except change the built environment to slow down and restrict access for drivers. School streets now!

Dave Gifford

@DE_Gifford

9 months

This pic: A Detroit-based robotics company and a UK-based tech company teamed up to develop a crossing guard robot that helps pedestrians cross intersections safely. Thoughts: This is not an intersection (which is fine). This robot won't last a week in the wild.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Assuming this is in Florida, 316.1945(1)(a)2., Florida Statutes, prohibits parking an automobile on a sidewalk. It also defines the portion of the sidewalk that goes through a driveway as, yes, being part of the sidewalk. Hope this helps!

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Lol cry more. Choo choo!

Anna Hoffman

@shoesonplease

3 months

Daily reminder Michigan is not Europe, California, New York, or Chicago. We invented the automobile - we do not need or want trains. If you think it’s a necessity in the 3 or 4 urban areas you live in, your local taxes can fund it. Do not Transit My Michigan. 🚗 🛻

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

4 months

Detroit is a great city, ruined by exurban sprawl. It could have 5 million people living within its limits.

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@cyclesixmile

1 year

I always get much better questions from kids than adults about the Urban Arrow. Adults want to know how much it costs, kids want to know if you can put dogs in it.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Dear god. Look at this place. We should be renovating and building hundreds of these in Detroit.

Malachi Barrett

@PolarBarrett

3 months

Notebook scraps: City Council approved an NEZ tax break for a housing project planned by Angela Yee and other partners. They plan to renovate a 100yr old apartment building 30 apartments, 12 with reduced rent for 60% and 80% AMI.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

1 month

This could be every other street in Detroit but we're playing games.

Oh The Urbanity!

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Rue de Champlain, Montréal

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

7 months

"You think I can ride a bike to visit my family on the other side of the country?" That's a new one.

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@cyclesixmile

3 months

"why do all these houses have basement bars" No AC.

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@cyclesixmile

5 months

I can't sit on my front porch because I just get mad about people speeding and running stop signs. I'm going to start putting more and larger things in the street until people shape up.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

Michigan Trails Magazine says they can't recommend the Dequindre Cut or the Riverwalk because their readers will "become more easy prey for Detroit's criminals."

Detroit Greenways Coalition

@DetroitGreenway

3 months

You can find Michigan Trails Magazine in Detroit at the Michigan Welcome Center, but you won't find any Detroit trails in it. The publisher considers all trails in the City of Detroit to be unsafe, including the Dequindre Cut & RiverWalk. @PureMichigan

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

1 year

Nearly a third of downtown Detroit is parking. Perhaps just one more parking lot will fix it?

Detroit Free Press

@freep

1 year

Taylor Swift at Ford Field in Detroit: Hunt for parking will be a challenge

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

8 months

As a union teacher I'm embarrassed to see this from the UFT. Do teachers stand in solidarity with their kids and families and communities on issues of health and safety, or are they just another occupying force?

UFT

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8 months

Today, our union, along with teachers who work at schools in Manhattan and the Bronx as well as Staten Island Borough President @SIBPVito , filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to halt the implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

5 months

@AshbyHarper It's $20 for 24 hours

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 years

Looks like Detroit is learning from its mistakes, and choosing to build a denser financially solvent city. Just look at this plan for Woodward Ave!

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

@Peyton_Po That's what I'm saying, they're still parked in front of their house! And they have a driveway!

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@cyclesixmile

5 months

@FredFli48494319 I do this fairly frequently. You're right that a lot of people in Detroit live in poverty and that we don't have a robust social safety net so you see the symptoms of that poverty in places like public transit.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

At the suggestion of Internet weirdos I will now exclusively ride my bike in parks and not on public roads. Unrelated, I am also demanding a long park between my house and the grocery store and between my house and my work.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

2 months

Buying this so I can melt it down.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

3 months

@EngineerDustin What if you put some really big rocks there like this:

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

6 months

All I'm asking for is this, all over the city, in a grid.

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cyclesixmile

@cyclesixmile

9 months

Dumb. 1/4+ of Detroiters don't have access to a car, much less a wirelessly charging electric car. People need reliable, frequent, and extensive public transit and a bike grid for transportation.

City of Detroit

@CityofDetroit

9 months

Detroit has the nation’s first wireless electrified roadway! Using technology from Electreon, coils installed underneath the pavement will allow electric vehicles with an approved receiver to be charged as it drives on the road (dynamic charging).