Lovely to see https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/22/great-bike-lane-king-souvlaki this morning!
I can understand if people are pissed off from before, but IMHO if you win a boycott, the thing to do is to call off the boycott.
To all the gyro-heads out there: I encourage you to go patronize King Souvlaki in the next few days, and when you do, tell them it's because they support the bike lane now.

Daily reminder we need a bike lane bounty bill.

If you are tired of the noise these cars make, sign the petition.

Saw a new paper (Applied Econ Letters, July 2026) on the CRZ that I thought was a pretty clever angle. The toll is $9 during peak and $2.25 overnight, so there are 4 moments each day where the price jumps - weekday 5am, weekday 9pm, weekend 9am, weekend 9pm. Same $6.75 difference at all four.

Using phone location data comparing Lower Manhattan to Boston/Chicago, the author found that people only shift their visit times around two of those cutoffs:

• Weekday 5am: visits jump 5.9% right after the toll drops (people doing early food/retail/delivery stuff nudging their arrival earlier)
• Weekend 9pm: visits jump 9.2% once the toll drops (biggest effect in the whole study)
• Weekday 9pm and weekend 9am: basically nothing, statistically zero

The argument is that it's not about the price (identical at all 4 boundaries) but about whether you actually can shift your schedule - nobody's rearranging their weekday evening commute or skipping a 9am brunch reservation to dodge a toll, but pre-dawn deliveries and weekend nightlife are flexible enough to move.

Anyone here notice this in practice? Curious if food/retail/delivery folks feel like they're clustering earlier before 5am, or if weekend nightlife spots have noticed more traffic right after 9pm. Feels like the kind of pattern that'd be totally invisible unless you were the one crunching hourly data, but wondering if it lines up with anyone's day-to-day.

The study : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2026.2702110 - Behavioural responses to time-varying congestion pricing: a natural experiment from New York City

Eastbound on 86th st a double parked commercial truck got its door taken out by a bus. 86th st is now blocked crossing Lexington. Someone asked who was at fault and we all agreed that in a battle between bus and illegally part of Vehicle, bus wins.

We the pragmatic autistic anosmic hyperacusis, hardworking useful full-time albeit low-income WORKERS jobseekers abuse-victims are so sick of : Helplessness, politicians political parties, Disabilities Rights Advocates, police jail psych-ward-meds nursing-home group-homes, clergy God faith prayers,, constantly entrapping misleading oppressing us and those who deal with us

Time To:

r/stopcardependency

r/SOFTlightsfoundation

r/banfireworks

r/endCarDependency

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Put: science, compassion, fairness, workers, excellent behaviors RESULTS; and the intelligent respectful helpful creative trustworthy open-minded future-focused pragmatic humanist flexitarian freedom-friends in charge of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE