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Re: Bike JC’s Ward Tour returns Sun. June 5!
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Over 2,100 riders now registered, with 9 days to go!

FOMO is a terrible thing and utterly preventable, people ...

Posted on: 2022/5/27 13:38
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Re: Bike JC’s Ward Tour returns Sun. June 5!
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Bump. About 1,600 riders are already registered!

REGISTER HERE NOW!

Posted on: 2022/5/19 19:44
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Bike JC’s Ward Tour returns Sun. June 5!
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The Jersey City Ward Tour is back on Sunday, June 5, 2022, at 11:00am. 2,000 Bikes. 15 Miles. 6 Wards. 1 Great Day in Jersey City!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW:


ABOUT THIS EVENT:

It's been three long years since the last one, but the Jersey City Ward Tour is coming back on Sunday, June 5, taking you (and 2,000 of our closest friends) on a tour of our great city.

FREE! This event is free and open to all, but we are also accepting donations to fund Bike JC's year-round work for better biking in JC. $5 is the suggested donation, but $0 is totally fine!

ROUTE: ridewithgps.com/routes/38744234

Start: City Hall - 280 Grove St., at Montgomery Street. Check-in begins at 9am, roll out at 11am.

End: Jersey City Jazz Festival, at 107 Morgan St.. Riders will find a bike parking area and great food, drink, and entertainment options there!

We’ll ride on streets (or sometimes on one side of a street) that are closed to motor-vehicle traffic by the Jersey City Police Department. Officers on bikes and in motor vehicles will escort us throughout the ride.

Finish Line: Jersey City Jazz Festival
We're excited to partner with the Jersey City Jazz Festival for this year's "Finish Line Festival!"

At the end of the Ward Tour route (at 107 Morgan St.), riders will find a bike parking area and great food, drink, and entertainment options there!

Live music and festivities are scheduled there from 12-6pm on Sunday, so you can catch the last 3 or 4 hours of it. The Jazz Fest is also running the previous day, Saturday, June 4, from noon till 8 p.m.

ALL RIDERS, OF ALL AGES, and even people who AREN'T riding, are welcome to join us at the end of the Tour, for this "Finish Line Festival."

NOTE: Bike parking outside Jazz Fest will be supervised, but is self-parking, not valet check-in/check-out, so YOU MUST BRING A LOCK if you want to park your bike there.

RIDE INFO:

Riders must be age 12 or older, and must wear helmets. (Younger children may be carried securely on an adult's bike in appropriate child seats, bakfiets buckets, trailers, tag-along attachments, etc.)

All riders must also be able to maintain a pace of approximately 10 mph. This is a fairly relaxed pace for an adult who bikes even occasionally. We also take some short breaks to catch a breath and to allow for smooth traffic control, and our one long break in Lincoln Park roughly at the halfway point, after the only steep uphill on the course (so you can just walk your bike up that hill if you want).

Please note that the Ward Tour is not timed, and it is not a race. In fact, we will strictly limit the front of the ride group to 10 mph.

But we must also emphasize: YOU MUST BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE GROUP, OR WE WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO CUT YOUR RIDE SHORT, as police re-open the streets to motor traffic behind us.

Also note, if you can’t keep up, if your bike quits on you, or if you simply want to drop out along the way, we will TRY to help you, but ultimately YOU are responsible for getting yourself home if need be. We will have marshals and others with mechanical skills in the pack, and at least one van following the tour to try to pick up riders. But this is not always possible. If you need to go home, please ride according to all traffic laws. You may be able to catch a light rail or PATH train to shorten your trip home.

We strongly recommend that you and everyone in your party do at least some bike riding in the weeks before the tour.

We do NOT rent or otherwise provide the bikes!

The tour rolls out at 11 a.m. SHARP, but you will need to pick up an official tour bib number before the start, 9:00–10:30 a.m. Details of number pickup will be announced separately.

We encourage you to dress up yourself and your bike colorfully!

RAIN OR SHINE:
PLEASE NOTE: The Ward Tour & Festival is officially a RAIN OR SHINE event. There is NO rain date.

We will ride June 5 even if it’s raining, in any weather that’s not dangerous, or simply cancel till next year for any that is (e.g. lightning, hail, very high winds, plague of frogs …). There will be no refunds, because it’s free! But if you give us the suggested $5 donation (or $5 million or whatever), those are non-refundable. And thank you!!

ABOUT US:
Bike JC is a citizen-based advocacy organization that aims to make Jersey City streets welcoming for bicyclists, by promoting bike-friendly policies, including bike lanes; and bicycle education.

We hope to see you June 5! With protected bike lanes spreading through Downtown, Journal Square, and surrounding neighborhoods—and proposals for other parts of the city up for public hearings—this is shaping up to be another banner year for biking in Jersey City. Come celebrate the victories with us—and let everyone know we need the great work to continue!

The Jersey City Ward Tour is presented by Bike JC in partnership with the City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, and the Office of Cultural Affairs, and through the generosity of our sponsors and the efforts of our volunteers.

VOLUNTEER:
We need your help making the event running smoothly: beforehand, at the start, during the ride, and at the finish. Sign up to volunteer here, or find more info here.

See you June 5!

#JCWardTour2022

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW:



NOTE: The 2022 Jersey City Ward Tour and the 2022 Jersey City Jazz Festival will both be held entirely outdoors.

Posted on: 2022/5/12 11:01
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Re: 10th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour & Festival (w/ Bayonne/Hoboken option!)
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Registration closing Friday night or early Saturday! Avoid long lines at the start, register now here: [url]http://www.bikejc.org/events/jersey-city-ward-tour[/url]

Posted on: 2019/5/30 21:28
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Re: 10th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour & Festival (w/ Bayonne/Hoboken option!)
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LAST WEEK TO REGISTER! The tour is this Sunday, June 2, with the first group leaving City Hall at 11 a.m.

REGISTER HERE NOW

Posted on: 2019/5/28 3:10
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Re: Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Permitting Operation of Low Speed E-Bikes and Motorized Scooters
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I thought the biggest purpose of the bike crowd was to be better for the environment. Now you can ride your bike AND use fossil fuels to do it. Smashing.


Ah, ?the bike crowd,? yes. I?ll take the leap that you want a serious answer, so:

Our understanding is that these e-scooters and e-bikes are not burning fossil fuels.

But all electricity to power them comes from sources that can be more or less clean, so how it?s generated matters. That?s why, yes, in general, us bike crowd people prefer non-powered bikes (and scooters, and feet) to be dominant. They?re guaranteed green.

But it?s been amply demonstrated, in many cities, that e-assist bikes and e-scooters fill niches that non-powered bikes don?t reach--especially in environments still lacking in comprehensive protected bike lane networks. E-bikes are good for people with especially long but bikeable commutes. For people with certain disabilities and weaknesses, particularly for older residents. For people living next to a steep elevation, if you know any of them. Scooters, meanwhile, are great for short hops, kind of like faster walking, and very easy to use spontaneously. So, they both allow more people to live without cars, or with fewer cars, often the same people who use non-powered bikes or walk for many trips.

So the net result is generally a city that drives and owns cars less, and bikes and walks more.

All this is also true about great mass transit.

Bikes are central to transportation in Dutch towns and cities, but they have all these other choices too, which only helps.

Posted on: 2019/5/21 5:12
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Re: Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Permitting Operation of Low Speed E-Bikes and Motorized Scooters
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[quote]
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Melodramatic much?

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Not melodramatic enough. The low level of attention paid to the constant drip, drip, drip of lives lost to cars is a bizarre sociological anomaly, aided by a century?s worth of propaganda by automakers, oil drillers, highway contractors, and a host of other interests. Google it.

If a train kills one person and injures several others, there?s a huge investigation, national hearings, a bound report ... because we don?t accept trains killing us. Not so with cars; we?re inured.

Scooters might be terrible here. But the correct default stance toward basically anything that helps substitute for cars in crowded cities is thank frigging goodness, let?s try this out.

If everybody takes that attitude, you won?t hear melodrama from me. But of course many will, and some are, already complaining about scooters. Give it a minute, kay?

Posted on: 2019/5/21 1:47
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Re: Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Permitting Operation of Low Speed E-Bikes and Motorized Scooters
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All these solutions have problems.

The cars they help replace have FAR worse problems, like, you know, relentless violent death and dismemberment, lung cancer and asthma deaths from air pollution, deaths from heart disease and other diseases of sedentary lifestyles, accelerated climate change, massive public (taxpayer) subsidy for precious driving and parking space on public land ...

And they?re not even here yet. BUT BY ALL MEANS, LET?S BITTERLY COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM! That seems sound.

Your city is on fire. Stop obsessing about whether fire extinguishers could be marginally safer, and use them, immediately, to PUT OUT THE DAMN FIRE.

Posted on: 2019/5/18 2:55
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10th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour & Festival (w/ Bayonne/Hoboken option!)
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2,000 Bikes. 15 or 25 Miles. 6 Wards. 1 Great Day in #JerseyCity! (with a side of Bayonne & Hoboken!)

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN on bikejc.org and is required.

REGISTER HERE

Bike JC?s 10th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour will roll Sunday, June 2, taking you (and probably over 2,000 of our closest friends) on a tour of our great city, and passing through all of its political wards.

And this year, we?re offering a special route that will be longer (25 miles), will roll somewhat faster with fewer stops, and will loop through parts of our neighboring towns Bayonne and Hoboken!

FREE! $5 suggested donation to fund our year-round work for better biking in JC. But it is JUST a suggestion. $0 is totally OK. So is $500, or $5 million.

We all start at City Hall, 280 Grove St. at Montgomery Street.

We all end up near the foot of Second Street along the Hudson River waterfront, in and around Lutze Biergarten. The Finish Line Festival afterparty will follow there, with great food, a drink special for riders all afternoon, a face painter for kids, and more!

We?ll ride on streets (or sometimes on one side of a street) that are closed to motor-vehicle traffic by the Jersey City Police Department. Officers on bikes and in motor vehicles will escort us throughout the ride.

Riders on the main 15-mile tour must be age 12 or older, and must wear helmets. (Younger children may be carried securely on an adult's bike in appropriate child seats, bakfiets buckets, trailers, tag-along attachments, etc.)

Riders on the 25-mile route must be 16 or older.

All riders on the main 15-mile route MUST also be able to maintain a pace of approximately 10 mph. This is a fairly relaxed pace for an adult who bikes even occasionally. We also take some short breaks to catch a breath and to allow for smooth traffic control, and our one long break in Lincoln Park roughly at the halfway point, after the only steep uphill on the course (so you can just walk your bike up that hill if you want).

All riders on the 25-mile route MUST be able to maintain a somewhat faster pace, about 12 mph, obviously for longer, and must be ready to roll with fewer and shorter rest breaks. This is a new, one-time, more complex route that we are offering to celebrate our 10th Ward Tour and showcase the growing bike communities in our neighboring towns. But we will be especially strict about who does this route, for safety and logistics reasons.

Please note that neither route on the Ward Tour is timed, and it is not a race. In fact, we will strictly limit the front of the 15-mile group to 10 mph, and will slow down the 25-mile riders as needed to keep the back of that group from stretching out.

But we must also emphasize, for either route: YOU MUST BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE GROUP, OR WE WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO CUT YOUR RIDE SHORT, as police re-open the streets to motor traffic behind us. If you are in the 25-mile group, and you fall behind, MARSHALS AND POLICE WILL STOP YOU, and you will have to wait for the slower 15-mile group.

We strongly recommend that you and everyone in your party do a least some bike riding in the weeks before the tour. If you want to do the 25-mile route, that?s pretty much a requirement.

We do NOT rent or otherwise provide the bikes!

The 25-mile group rolls tour rolls out at 11 a.m. SHARP, and the 15-mile group rolls at 11:30 but you will need to pick up an official tour bib before the start, 9:00?10:30 a.m.

We encourage you to dress up yourself and your bike colorfully!

Bike JC is a citizen-based advocacy organization that aims to make Jersey City streets welcoming for bicyclists, by promoting bike-friendly policies, including bike lanes; bicycle education; and traffic law enforcement.

We hope to see you June 2! With protected bike lanes on the horizon, this is shaping up to be another banner year for biking in Jersey City. Come celebrate with us!

PLEASE NOTE: The Ward Tour & Festival is officially a RAIN OR SHINE event. There is NO rain date.

We will ride June 2 even if it?s raining, in any weather that?s not dangerous, or simply cancel till next year for any that is (e.g. lightning, hail, very high winds, plague of frogs ?). There will be no refunds, because it?s free! But if you give us the suggested $5 donation (or $5 million or whatever), those are non-refundable. And thank you!!

MORE ABOUT THE FINISH LINE FESTIVAL:

ALL RIDERS, OF ALL AGES, and even people who AREN'T riding, are welcome to join us inside and around the beautiful Lutze Biergarten at the end of the Tour, for our Finish Line Festival.

The biergarten has a nice variety of food and drink for purchase; bring valid ID and get a bracelet from the staff if you want to buy adult beverages.

And we hear there's a special cocktail in the works for us too!

For the kids, in the biergarten's grass-covered picnic area, we'll have a face-painter working magic!

Local nonprofit groups and others will have tables outside the biergarten so you can get to know them if you'd like.

The Jersey City Ward Tour is presented by Bike JC in partnership with the the City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, and the Office of Cultural Affairs, and through the generosity of our sponsors and the efforts of our volunteers.

See you June 2!

REGISTER HERE

#JCWardTour2019

Posted on: 2019/5/18 0:45

Edited by elsquid on 2019/5/18 1:10:27
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Quote:

JCbiscuit wrote:
another great ride!
suggestion for next year: more food options, please.
Lutz had one line for 1500 riders. it took over an hour to get food.
the extra mile cocktail was nice, though.


Thanks!

Yeah, that's the number-one thing we heard. We are talking about going back to Lutze next year but expanding more into the parking lot, with them and us adding more food options out near the bike entry.

Posted on: 2018/6/4 13:55
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES AT NOON TODAY for the big Jersey City Ward Tour tomorrow! Do it now, guarantee your entry, and avoid longer lines the start!

Sign up here: WARD TOUR REGISTRATON

Posted on: 2018/6/2 14:31
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Check it out: After our Ward Tour on Sunday, we'll have three great local bands playing live throughout the afternoon as we enjoy The Lutze Biergarten during our Finish Line Festival. All ages are welcome; it's at the far east end of 2nd Street at the Hudson River.
BAND LINEUP:

The Penniless Loafers -- Ska
About the band

B. Davis & The HiFi Rockers -- Reggae
About the band

Annie Minogue Band -- Rock
About the band

Posted on: 2018/5/31 19:47
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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FYI, the Lutze Biergarten, host of our Finish Line Festival after Sunday's tour, will have happy hour for riders all afternoon:

Show your rider number, and you can get:
$5 Coors
$6 well drinks
$7 wine

And we hear there's a special cocktail in the works for us too!

Posted on: 2018/5/31 18:53
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Only a few more days left to register online for Sunday's big Jersey City Ward Tour. Register now and avoid longer lines at the start!

FREE registration here

Posted on: 2018/5/30 17:12
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Bump! Jersey City Ward Tour is coming right up, Sunday, June 3!

Register now online for the big bike tour. You?ll avoid the longest lines at the start.

REGISTER NOW

16 miles. 2,000 bikes. All 6 wards of our great city?hence the name!

Posted on: 2018/5/26 0:00
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Re: Why are Bullitt Cargo Bikes not a thing here???
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I know someone in the Heights who rocks one all over the place. Giant loads of groceries, random people jumping into it on night light-up rides?It?s awesome.

Posted on: 2018/5/25 23:47
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Bump. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Ward Tour info and free registration here


Posted on: 2018/5/7 13:49
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for Bike JC's big 9th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour & Festival!

Deets and free registration here!

Sunday, June 3, 11 a.m.
Start: City Hall, 280 Grove St.
Finish & Festival: 2nd St. and the Hudson River, in and around Lutze Biergarten
2,000 bikes
16 miles
Free ($5 suggested donation to our nonprofit 501(c)(3) group)


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Save the date and ride with us!!

Bike JC's 9th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour and Festival will be held Sunday, June 3. We'll start at 11 a.m. and bike about 15 miles all around the city at an easy pace?with a couple thousand friends! After the ride, enjoy a finish-line festival, including live music, food and drink. Free registration is required, and we expect to open it online soon.

We'll have much more information shortly, here and on our website at www.bikejc.org.

Facebook: bike JC
Twitter: @bikejc
Instagram: @bikejcgram

Posted on: 2018/5/5 22:05
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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey
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It is difficult to pin an increase in traffic accidents or traffic fatalities on marijuana legalization. Traffic deaths nationwide increased by 14% from 2014 to 2016, with 2016 being the deadliest year since 2007. So Colorado is far from the only state to see an uptick in traffic incidents.

Colorado's traffic fatality rate per 100,000 citizens is 11.0, which is actually below the national average of 11.6. The highest fatality rates are in Mississippi (23.1) and Alabama (21.3), states that most certainly are not known for lax marijuana laws.

If anything, I'd surmise that the increase in traffic deaths nationwide has more to do with a strengthening economy plus relatively low gas prices. These two factors helped make 2016 the year with the highest number of miles driven in the history of the United States. More cars on the road and more miles driven would logically lead to an increase in traffic accidents.


This is the part where I point out that the bike/walk/mass transit-friendly streets of Amsterdam, where car traffic is limited and calmed by engineering, law, and culture, are far safer, crash-wise, than those of basically every other large city. (Their national average is around 3.4 deaths per 100k?about a third of ours.)

This despite having pot and hashish sold on every other corner, drunk tourists roaming around every night, and a self-reported 2/3 of young people regularly biking while drunk.

The most effective remedy for the dangers of intoxicated driving, it turns out, is not reducing intoxication, it's reducing ... well, you know.

K bai!









Posted on: 2018/5/2 18:02
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Expansion
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Look at the rendering again... Barrow isn't getting closed off. The Barrow -> Erie highway will continue to cut through the area.


OK. Too bad. It probably should. It gets closed all day for the All About Downtown festival in September (I worked on that block all day last year), and the city survives.

Posted on: 2018/4/30 2:33
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Expansion
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Regarding Barrow, there are two little business entrances on the east side, the botanica and the barber shop. But yeah, the rest is pretty much blank walls, with one big vacant lot.

But what you can do is put little micro-business spaces on the sidewalk in front of the blank walls, like little kiosks or spots for food carts, etc.

The sidewalks are pretty wide there, but width won't matter anyway now that the former street area is opened to pedestrians.

Posted on: 2018/4/27 19:21
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza Expansion
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I don't believe it's at all a widespread phenomenon that someone from elsewhere in the city is suddenly unable to patronize a Downtown business that they love (and a business loses a longtime customer), because of increased traffic, due to the ped plaza.

I know LOTS of people from all over the city who still patronize businesses in and around the existing plaza by car. But hey, maybe it happens in some cases at some times of day ... I can't speak for every individual's experience. The fact that it might happen at all is the reason why changes in traffic patterns should be made somewhat gradually, to allow people and businesses to adjust; indeed having just one block of ped plaza for several years now seems pretty gradual to me.

The bigger problem with the original objection, though, is that when and if it's true, it is treated like the end of the world. It's not. The MOVEMENT of business revenue around the city is not somehow the LOSS of business. People don't stop needing stuff or buying it.

For one thing, what we ALWAYS hear is the one complaint about, say, a Downtown business losing a customer who used to drive there. We RARELY hear about people who discover a Downtown business while strolling a newly walk- and bike-friendly neighborhood, and become NEW customers. That's not something they come to local forums to yell about, because it's not a sore subject for either the new customer or the business owner.

Conversely, in some ways it's GOOD that a person from, say the upper Heights might switch to a similar business closer to home. That's good for the businesses in the upper Heights. Don't they count? We have it on good authority that there are bakeries in pretty much every neighborhood in this city. If they get a small percentage of extra revenue from people who used to shop Downtown, it will help them thrive and encourage more of them to serve very local customers.

This is how great cities have worked for 5,000 years until we started letting car monoculture destroy them: They're big places, but even today they're made up of tiny, self-sustaining neighborhoods, each with their own grocery, dry-cleaner, pizzeria, etc.

I've lived in the back corner of Hamilton Park since 1997, just off Brunswick Street. Before my time, the area was famous for having dozens of tiny neighborhood businesses serving everyone's even more basic needs: the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Even as recently as the early '00s?after car culture and bigger stores killed off those markets?there was still a big old dude who would walk straight down the middle of Brunswick Street every Sunday pushing a huge cart, selling fruits and vegetables to all the Italian grandmothers, without their ever having to leave their blocks. It was pretty great, like living in a little Italian village, one might say.

It would be GREAT if more and more people in every neighborhood gradually started shopping closer to home again, by bike, on foot, on mass transit, or via shorter car trips than they're now making. It means less driving, with less of the ills that urban driving brings. It means safer, cleaner, more cohesive, friendly, sustainable neighborhoods.

It will mean some adjustments on everyone's part. It definitely WON'T mean anyone will be unable to buy a nice cake, or sell one, in Jersey City.

Posted on: 2018/4/26 15:27
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Re: Citi Bike
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TheBigGuy wrote:
That Bike JC statement / position is certainly different from the Citi Bike statement that said Bike JC endorsed the relocation plan.


They did not say that Bike JC endorsed it. They said their own data showed low usage in those docks, and noted that Bike JC?s recent analysis of Citi Bike?s data also showed that.

Posted on: 2018/4/24 3:14
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Re: Citi Bike
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Bike JC's full statement on the recent station relocations is right here:

Bike JC is very sorry to see that Citi Bike JC docking stations are being relocated from large areas in the southern third of Jersey City. As with earlier removals in the northern Heights, the latest realignment is unfortunate and painful for several reasons.

Some of the stations had groups of regular users who are now deprived of service. And several of the stations served or are in or near, underserved communities, and neighborhoods with many lower-income residents, which raises the serious concern that this rebalance will exacerbate the already documented equity gap in bike share systems.

Citi Bike JC?s operators, Motivate, are moving eight of its least-used stations to areas where other stations are already heavily used. We have no doubt this will improve service within those areas, will let Motivate re-balance the bikes between stations with less delay and expense, and will encourage more people in those areas to buy memberships, keeping the company financially sound?and hopefully, over time, allowing it to expand again into a wider area.

This is now very similar to the model of the affiliated Citi Bike NYC, which serves something like 20% of the land area of New York City, including its densest and most transit-friendly areas and, recently, including large communities of color such as Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. It also leaves 80% of NYC without bike share. We believe Motivate when they say that that model is the only way they can operate in a self-sustainable way over time under its current conditions.

But that doesn?t mean we shouldn?t all continue to try for something better. We believe everyone in Jersey City should have access to high-quality bike share. It?s a small enough place that we should be able to support it even in the far north and south.

So we call on the city government, Motivate, and our residents and community organizations to work together, and explore several possibilities:

Public or private subsidy for Citi Bike JC ? We all subsidize various forms of mass transit, including trains and buses, through our taxes, tolls, and other payments. Why should bike share be any different? It improves safety and health, moves people efficiently, and is more equitable than expensive car travel?if we make it accessible to everyone. The city should fund Citi Bike JC sufficiently to allow it to expand throughout the city; there may be public or private grants available for the same purpose.

Better discount programs ? JC Housing Authority residents are already eligible for discounted $5 monthly membership. But uptake is slow (as it is in NYC), due in part to a lack of awareness and difficulties for people without credit cards. We should do more to promote, expand, and improve these discount programs.

Dockless bike share ? Using shared bikes that can be parked without docks, dockless bike share, has sometimes been criticized as untidy, but it also is gaining a reputation for serving low-income communities and less-dense urban areas effectively. Several competing companies are offering dockless bike share
now, and Motivate is reportedly testing its own version. Some cities now host both docked and dockless bike share; Jersey City could be one of those cities.

Government and business employees on bike share ? The city government should replace some of its use of cars with bike share for short trips; this would save taxpayer dollars. Both government and local business should offer no-cost or deeply subsidized Citi Bike JC memberships for all employees as a matter of course, as an employee benefit. All these measures would get more people biking in safer streets and pump money into the system.

Business and developer sponsorship of stations ? Citi Bike JC accepts sponsorships for docking stations to be located near a particular business or residential development, for the benefit of its employees or residents, and the station is then also available to everyone else. Encouraging more of these?perhaps during the approval process for new development?could help spread and support bike share.

Protected bike network ? Some of it is already being planned, but it?s essential that the city build out a complete network of protected bike lanes and other bikeable streets and pathways if bike share is to reach its full potential in Jersey City. Membership in NYC has already benefited from the miles of protected lanes there.
Study after study shows that traffic safety is the top concern for cyclists and non-cyclists and that protected bike lanes, once installed, are safe, effective, and popular.

Posted on: 2018/4/23 19:20
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Re: Group wants new highway leading to Jersey City Waterfront
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Could this be "fake news", designed to create a buzz as it already has here on JC List?

First a newspaper article about nothing and then a Facebook illusion?


It's not that, exactly, though I see why you'd suspect that. It's a very real small, moneyed (self-)interest group with a genuine desire to do something monumentally stupid, destructive, futile, and against everything we've belatedly and painfully learned about transportation planning over recent decades.

It's people who want to sell new luxury condos to suckers and rubes who think they're going to have a private driveway from the Turnpike to their homes, avoiding all the car traffic that all us proles endure.

And the scam would succeed, too, if this thing were ever approved, because all the money would change hands before people realized that adding new car capacity in crowded urban areas simply attracts more cars and bigger traffic jams. It's called "induced demand," and is the same reason California spent $4.5 billion to widen a freeway, only to have it jammed up again within a week.

The irony is that drivers would arguably suffer most. Meanwhile, more cars means yet more crashes and violent death, pollution, diseases of pollution and sedentary life, diminished quality of life with more noisy, dirty, shortcutting car traffic, etc., etc., while a precious linear right-of-way, the Bergen Arches, is given at least partially to a form of transit that the city, state, and federal governments are already officially committed to trying to scale back. Idiotic.

If you're looking for a term from the dark arts of PR to describe this ad campaign, it's "astroturfing," a small group of fatcats pretending to be a large, grassroots organization of concerned regular-joe commuters. Yyyyyyeah no.

Anyway, every single person in the downtown neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, the DCNA, Journal Square and its neighborhood associations, safe streets groups, bike groups, mass transit groups ... pretty much everybody, in other words, should call, write, email, and send smoke signals to City Hall and the State House right now and tell them that this heroically irresponsible, selfish and corrupt plan, and this group, need to go away and stay there.

PS: For anyone thinking that this project will provide union/government jobs and/or boost the economy, don't worry, there's a LOT of honest work to be done around here, fixing and maintaining the roads and mass transit infrastructure we already have. But that stuff isn't as easy to give away in sweetheart contracts to your cronies, or name after your dead fixer father, or cut a ribbon for a cool photo op.

Don't be fooled.



Posted on: 2018/4/23 17:23
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Re: !!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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heights wrote:
Where is the starting point and where is the finish-line festival located ?


Still confirming with various parties. Details soon.

Posted on: 2018/3/28 13:06
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!!Bike JC Ward Tour rolls Sun. June 3!!
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Save the date and ride with us!!

Bike JC's 9th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour and Festival will be held Sunday, June 3. We'll start at 11 a.m. and bike about 15 miles all around the city at an easy pace?with a couple thousand friends! After the ride, enjoy a finish-line festival, including live music, food and drink. Free registration is required, and we expect to open it online soon.

We'll have much more information shortly, here and on our website at www.bikejc.org.

Facebook: bike JC
Twitter: @bikejc
Instagram: @bikejcgram

Posted on: 2018/3/27 15:52
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Re: Is Downtown JC next? Out-Of-Town Drivers Banned From Using Leonia As Shortcut
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Lots of good ideas and analysis in here, trying to solve a real problem.

But I can't help thinking, this is all thinking too small.

Want to cut through a quiet residential neighborhood quickly in a car to get somewhere else, in Amsterdam or other Dutch cities? You literally can't.

Residential streets there have multiple forced turns, in maze-like patterns. Sometimes there's housing right smack where a through street would have run (great though it probably requires long-term planning and zoning changes); other times a formerly through street is retro-fitted with permeable barriers such as big planters, which let pedestrians and cyclists through but make cars go around (we can totally do this in JC, and it's popular in Portland).

In addition, basically every residential street has lots of traffic-calming structures like brick pavement, gently raised crosswalks with bumpouts on each side, strategically placed curbside parking or tree pits on alternates sides to guide drivers through gentle "S" movements (aka chicanes), etc. (we can totally do this in JC and we are already starting to do it).

The result is that locals can get into and out of their home streets easily enough, and they don't mind the slight delays that all of the above causes, because they're slowing down anyway, and because, you know, they live there, so they like traffic to be calm.

Whereas, rat-runners and short-cutters, while they can legally cut through neighborhoods as far as I know, are strongly disincentivized against it, because dealing with each slight delay across multiple streets and neighborhoods really adds up for someone who'd rather zip through. So they just take the few arterial roads instead like they're supposed to?no enforcement or special technology is necessary, and no one is pulled over for being "an outsider," etc.

Of course, the tragic side effects of this system is that top speeds of cars are reduced, leading to far fewer fatal and serious car crashes, while cycling and mass transit are boosted, leading to massive gains in public health and longevity, less air and noise pollution, more livable neighborhoods in general, and so forth.

Which is nice, if you're into that sort of thing.


Posted on: 2018/2/8 18:32
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Re: FM BAR AND RESTAURANT
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I heard they were putting in a stage and will have live music, run by Dancin' Tony/Rock-It Docket. That might be what the work is.

Posted on: 2018/1/30 14:41
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Re: 27th Annual Jersey City Art Studio Tour
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elsquid wrote: Friday, Oct. 13: Arrive at the #JCAST2017 opening night party in style with Bike JC! We will hold a special light-up night party bike ride, starting at 7 pm at Grove PATH Plaza and ending at the opening gala! This was mad fun last year. And we know how to make an entrance! Join us! Free; just show up. Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 14 & 15: Ride with Bike JC on our free tours of many great arts venues around Jersey City! Multiple tours noon to 6 pm both days. Routes TBA here; all start at Grove PATH.
OK, HERE'S OUR SCHEDULE FOR THE WHOLE WEEKEND. ALL SCHEDULED RIDES DEPART AND RETURN TO GROVE ST. PATH PLAZA! (If you come with us to late-night parties, we will not return en mass to Grove PATH from those, but will escort people to places within reason.): Friday 10/13 7-8 pm from Grove PATH: Light-Up Ride to Opening Night Party at Harborside Atrium 8-9 >>9:30-ish till ?? 660 Grand Street for a Puerto Rico benefit/party<< Saturday 12 noon - 3pm Downtown Ride - Art House 300 Coles St. - Hamilton House 255 Brunswick - Merseles Studio 339 Newark Ave. - Drawing Rooms 180 Grand St - The Oakman 160 1st St.) Saturday 3pm - 6pm Greenville, Bergen/Lafayette - Project Greenville 128 Winfield Ave - Ocean Green Gallery 744 Ocean Ave - Pacific Flea Gallery - 149 Pacific Ave - The Artisits of 111 First Street - 395 Halladay St. #2 - Deep Space Gallery 2nd Fl THE HIVE JC - 77 Cornelison Ave >>Possibly we will venture to a night party or two after dropping people off at Grove PATH<< Sunday 12 noon - 3pm Heights Ride - Jim Fischer's Art Studio - 530 Liberty Ave - The Statuary 53 Congress St. - 107 Bowers Gallery and Art Space 107 Bowers St. - Pershing Field Community Center - 201 Central Ave. (enter from Summit Ave) - Musicians Building - 130 Central Ave - Prime Gallery - 351 Palisade Ave - Madill Studiio - 58 Laidlaw Ave Sunday 3pm - 6pm WEST / MCGINLEY Sq. / JSQ - Independent Art World Gallery - 715 Newark Ave (John Ruddy & Lillian Khan) - The Triangle Building - 2800 JFK Blvd, 1st Floor (37 artists) - El Cocotero - 749 Bergen Ave (Multiple Venezuelan artists) - Jersey City Bicycle Co - 687 Montgomery St (Chris De Los Angeles? bike shop, work by our friend Daniel ?Kodaq? Morteh & 2 others, quick stop) - Shua Space - 340 Summit Ave (5 artists in small but cool space) - Dineen/Hull gallery @ HCCC - 71 Sip Ave (Kayt Hester, 1 other exhibit, closing party till 8)

Posted on: 2017/10/13 16:32
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