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Re: Comptroller Lander: Make City Drivers Safer By Punishing Agencies for Crashes

jehiah — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:58:51 -0000

Why is there no recommendation to shift specific uses for NYC fleet to a fleet of e-assist or e-cargo bikes?

Sure you won't plow snow with an e-cargo bike, but no reason a building inspector can't do inspections in one. That parking enforcement manager? nope doesn't need to arrive in a car. Same for school crossing guards, etc, etc.

Re: City Workers Drove Slower in Speed Governor Pilot, But Disabled Cap Hundreds of Times

jehiah — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:22:04 -0000

Despite the surprise of the Speed Govorner being disabled temporarily 600 times, this tech works and it's exciting to see results showing that.

I look forward to Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal's bill to require this life saving safety technology on all new vehicles (like the EU now does) moving forward this year.

https://www.nysenate.gov/le...

Re: DOT Unveils Long-Awaited 10th Ave. Bike Lane; Locals Say Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough

jehiah — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:36:58 -0000

CB4 has been pointed in asking for more space to plan for the future not the now. It's worth noting that the green paint will be 8' wide not 6' wide as on most avenues *and* that doesn't count the 3' buffer.

Re: UPDATE: Restler Bill to Allow Residents to Ticket Dangerous Drivers Gaining Steam

jehiah — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:24:03 -0000

Intro 501 is explicitly anti-corruption legislation, but somehow only parking is mentioned here.

Everything Intro 501 addresses is already illegal. We only need it because parking enforcement is systemically corrupt and the Mayor and NYPD don’t care to fix it.

NYPD Traffic is corrupt when they skip certain classes of violations and honor “please don’t ticket - I’m the flower vendor” paper notes. NYPD precincts are corrupt and lie about handling reports of illegal parking. City employees at large are corrupt and continue to park on sidewalks!

We don’t need more laws that say illegal parking is illegal, we need a change of venue (DOT) and accountability that fines are actually issued (that is the real purpose of tracking through issuance of fine + reward). I hope CM Brooks-Powers recognizes this as anti-corruption legislation.

Re: Sin City: New 24/7 Speed Cameras Issue a Whopping 70 Percent More Tickets

jehiah — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:06:58 -0000

The legal text for NYC's current speed camera program authorizes cameras in "750 school speed zones" but there isn't a limit on the number of cameras in each school zone. Each school zone is defined as a certain distance from a school.

DOT has something on the order of 1500 cameras in total now ( I am not sure of the actual number) even though they are restricted from putting them "anywhere".

https://www.nysenate.gov/le...

Re: Sin City: New 24/7 Speed Cameras Issue a Whopping 70 Percent More Tickets

jehiah — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:02:24 -0000

NY State has 9 "demonstration programs" for red light cameras. The one for NYC only authorizes cameras at 150 intersections. Like the current speed camera program it expires soon and needs to be permanently authorized statewide w/o an excessively restrictive cap.

https://www.nysenate.gov/le...

Re: New Council Bills Will Create a Bike and a Pedestrian Mayor

jehiah — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:05:44 -0000

I think 80% of these roles is about a title that naturally gives authority on topics in the media and from that perspective i'm ok w/ two roles.

It's feels obviously good to have two roles if they compliment each other and double the mindshare against cars, or a negative if these roles in-fight and don't work together.

I'd love to hear a title that works for this scenario where "bike mayor" falls flat: "We go now to the scene of a car on a sidewalk so speak with NYC' Pedestrian Mayor".

Re: SPEED CAMERAS WORK: City Writes More Tickets — But Drivers are Getting the Message

jehiah — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:18:53 -0000

I'd love to see that data too. You might consider submitting a FOIL request to DOT to see if they have it. https://a860-openrecords.ny...

Re: SPEED CAMERAS WORK: City Writes More Tickets — But Drivers are Getting the Message

jehiah — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:34:01 -0000

612k different vehicles got speed camera tickets since July 11th of this year (barely three months!). 178k had 2+, 69k had 3+ tickets.

This city has a huge speeding problem. That data is with just a few hundred cameras which are still few and far between, and with limited hours of operations (no nights, no weekends)

One might comfortably say the VAST majority of drivers ARE speeding >10mph, but some are now being caught.

Re: Op-Ed: To Break the Car Culture, Reduce the Number of Parking Spots

jehiah — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:18:32 -0000

I couldn't agree more!

Re: Op-Ed: To Break the Car Culture, Reduce the Number of Parking Spots

jehiah — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:17:58 -0000

My detached garage count is not based on department of finance data, it's based on DoITT Planimetrics building footprints (2018).

https://toomanycars.nyc/#pr...

You can read more about that data here - https://github.com/CityOfNe...

My 700k estimate of driveways is based on my best guess that encompasses the detached garage count and accounts for uncounted attached garages, and driveways w/o any garage.

https://toomanycars.nyc/#dr...

Re: Op-Ed: To Break the Car Culture, Reduce the Number of Parking Spots

jehiah — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:36:08 -0000

I blame the editor for some of that word choice, but appreciate the feedback!

I've tried to put a lot of transparency into the detail behind that number and where that measurement came, and how it's calculated at the bottom of https://toomanycars.nyc/

In Open Data look for DCA licenses with an industry like 'Parking' ( Parking Garage, Parking Lot, or Parking Garage and Lot). In the "Detail" column there is a count of parking spaces (and bike parking spaces!) available.

Re: Trucker Kills Woman in Flatbush And Walks By Saying the Magic Words: ‘I Didn’t Know!’

jehiah — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:49:21 -0000

The pictured tractor trailer is over 55' feet bumper to bumper limit set in 4-15(b)(4), but appears that it's hauling an indivisible load. In that case it must have a daily oversize permit from DOT for each direction of its trip to be legal on NYC streets as outlined by 4-15(b)(15). https://www1.nyc.gov/html/d...

Re: Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways

jehiah — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:34:50 -0000

You should probably just go read what the law actually says. Limit for Buses is 45ft so the NYCT buses are not in violation (though wikipedia does imply some of the MCI ones are 45' 5", i didn't see any listed as 48ft). Articulated Buses have the 65ft limit.

Quoting 4-15(b)(3) "provided the
length of such buses does not exceed 45 feet"

page 89
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot...

Re: Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways

jehiah — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:12:18 -0000

The bus length (including articulated buses) is governed under the single vehicle limits which is a 35 ft max length. (It's the cab + trailer combo that as a 55' limit).

However, Articulated buses get a special limit of 65' under NYC Traffic Rule 4-15(b)(3). In part this is because the wheel base is different. Even with the longer limit they are also restricted to a turning radius of no more than 50ft.

Re: Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways

jehiah — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:08:20 -0000

It's ok. Bus's get a max width of 102 inches not 96 so my understanding is they are ok. 4-15(b)(1).

Re: Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways

jehiah — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:50:51 -0000

... and we haven't even touched the topic of 8' width vs 8'6" yet. No doubt NYPD hasn't either.

Re: Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways

jehiah — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:55:23 -0000

DOT is 85 days into an outstanding FOIL I have for a copy of all oversize permits issued or denied. We'll see how that goes.

I noted in my request that it would be acceptable for them to publish that on https://opendata.cityofnewy...

Re: How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet

jehiah — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 08:46:11 -0000

There are a few times where "Transmit flow steering" is referred to as XFS, but elsewhere it's referred to as "Transmit Packet Steering" or XPS which i think is more correct.

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:34:13 -0000

FYI: it isn't implemented or displayed with flash, there is only flash involved to allow you to copy it to your clipboard, which is a feature most browsers do not yet implement natively.

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:32:14 -0000

this appears to have been a problem on facebooks end which they resolved. In the future support@bit.ly is a better spot to get ahold of us.

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:08:32 -0000

It's still there, and it's been updated to work with the new site design. http://bit.ly/pages/tools

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:59:28 -0000

there should not be any changes with regards to bitly.pro accounts; please verify that you are logged in, and if you are still having issues drop an email to support@bit.ly

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:00:12 -0000

I'm right there with you, and we are working on a better way to incorporate that information into the new site design!

Re: Introducing bit.ly, the fugu edition

jehiah — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:55:35 -0000

We like that feature too, and it's on the list to be worked into the new design. stay tuned!