
Ben Furnas
@bfurnas
Executive Director, @transalt
Former: @Cornell; @NYCMayor
The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world.
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https://transalt.org/membership 07-05-2007 18:13:40
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Please Eric Adams For Mayor Mayor Eric Adams NYC Mayor's Office the community can not afford to wait another 10yrs for NYC DOT to do a traffic study. We need emergency safety measures installed now, how many more deaths? NYS Senator Brian Kavanagh 卡范納 Assemblymember Grace Lee 李榮恩 Jumaane Williams (@jumaane.bsky.social) Mark D. Levine



Whoa 3rd Ave is happening north of 96th Street! Streetsblog New York Open Plans Transportation Alternatives Bike New York Still double parked before and afters, but as long as they stay out of #bikenyc 🤷 Only 3 blocks messed up NYPD abd FDNY blocks with angle parking!


Honored to receive a proclamation tonight from Phara Souffrant Forrest recognizing my work at Transportation Alternatives TA Brooklyn (TABK) to improve street safety in AD57 in partnership with her office. Grateful to the neighbors, volunteers whose collective power made change possible.


This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It’s been opened to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life for people, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things. Language matters. HT Daniel Moser / profile inactive for the pic #OpenStreets


A must read for all cyclists Urban Justice Center Transportation Alternatives Streetsblog New York reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comm…


Lmao get you a girl who can do both (dominate a conversation on energy policy and recommend one of the most iconic and stimulating novels of the past 50 years. What does Ezra mean, he liked the first two-thirds?? the whole thing is perfect) Jane Flegal


Repairs to the Cross Bronx Expressway are an opportunity to rethink how we move people and goods and it policies align w/ "future goals of reducing our dependency on roadway infrastructure." Tiffany-Ann Taylor in City Limits citylimits.org/i-have-real-fe…

This Senate Banking package is a watershed moment in federal housing policy--chassis reform, Build More Housing Near Transit, Housing Supply Frameworks, & a brand new set of carrots & sticks based on housing production outcomes! Full NotebookLM-queryable text in next tweet


Just announced! The New York Historical has acquired the archive of iconic photographer Bill Cunningham. Read more in The New York Times. nyti.ms/3GRa0dv


"'Housing is a Human Right' is a lovely phrase and a powerful one, but if you want that right to ever have any hope of being realized, you need to actually build some housing." Jessica Katz nails it in Vital City. Let's treat our housing shortage as the emergency it is.

