This is the right answer. The selfishness of people driving and honking and causing gridlock traffic because they have to make it through a light is the reason why it gets to the level that it does, especially as of late.

It happens because so many people are selfish and feel the unnecessary need to drive when they should be taking a train, ferry, or bus. Zero sympathy for the idiots who choose to drive in JC when there are so many other options.

>And I'm glad the Loews fought to get an agreement that keeps some dates for community events and arts, because the original plan to just turn it over to a multi billion dollar company with little oversight and barely any events for community use was ridiculous.

Huh? The original 2014 AEG deal that was sadly cancelled because the FOL would not give up their lease had a guaranteed number of community events in it.

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It’s amazing to me that every driver downtown is only using downtown as a pass through whenever this happens. It’s not a single local coming or going anywhere except for the one making the observation. Funny how that happens.

I’ve never lived in Florida but had plenty of instances here where I’m halfway across an intersection in the crosswalk and a car flies by me.

Hudson Hound

I mean he has, what more can he do?

Jersey City doesn’t have the legal authority to do that. We are not NYC. They [NYC] enjoy a special status (conferred upon them by the State legislature) that gives the city the legal authority to enact laws and regulations that wouldn’t be possible or legal for other cities to do the same. Basically, anything we want to do that’s not strictly local has to be approved or allowed by the State government and legislature. For example, we couldn’t create additional taxes (eg, the recent payroll tax) unless explicitly approved by the State Legislature. We can’t control or restrict access to local roads without the state approving that. And, a plan to impose congestion pricing, or other surcharges, would require state and federal approval, along with the cooperation of the NJTA and (possibly?) the PANYNJ.

I think traffic cops should be more involved at the traffic lights. People don't care if the light turns red, they still continue crawling forward and blocking the other traffic trying to get through. It's chaos because if you block one road, then that road ends up backing up and blocking another road.

It's Pidgeotto!

I’m going with peregrine falcon which are very common in the area. Definitely not a red tailed hawk (wrong color, wrong markings) and 90% sure it’s not a Cooper’s hawk (head markings don’t look right).

ye, who cares about HOB-WST. We need JSQ-33rd, which has 30x more demands on the weekend.

Don't post Facebook links, not everyone has an account (anymore)

JCs war on cars is mainly restricted to the downtown thankfully. We don’t have it nearly as bad as our friends ok the other side of the river.

No it’s holiday traffic. Inbound holland gets totally fucked at weird times around this week. Two days ago it was like 40 minutes into the city at 5pm while jersey bound was 10 minutes.

What the mayor can do is lobby for better service from the state, and not make life miserable for the majority of JC residents whose primary modem of transport is car.

Rough-legged Hawk.

It's that time of year.

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Ahri’s Kitchen

I'll take my "waiting in the cold and rain" when it comes with an extra $600+/month of disposable income

Including Florida? Cause I feel way safer walking in JC than there. The idea of yielding to a pedestrian in a crosswalk does not exist there, plus the average speed limit is more like 45 than 25.

I'm against all of that too

Yep, that's a bird

And when you actively vote out the mayor's councilman, the Ward lines get gerrymandered, and you lose the councilman you voted for (yes, I know, the HC Board of Elections was responsible, but conveniently JC paid their legal bill). That's always encouraging - and for the record, I always vote. Not that it counts for much, obviously.