- May 12, 2008
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Ran into @ksteezy in the train
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- Aug 1, 2004
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Almost 2hrs?
Stop cappin!!
at you actually thinking it shows up in 40 mins. you've clearly never took a D train on da weekend... at it being 40 mins being on time, duke its called delays. "signal problems" "sick passenger" "Police activity"..my *** would've copped w/e im coppin, and been back by da time da train shows up i hope u not taking mass transit in Texas.
- Apr 4, 2008
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They just threw one up by the park near my house. It’s no joke now. I love it.I've gotten hit 3 times with those speed cameras on Queens Blvd now
They have them all over Queens Blvd too. Have some by Queens Center Mall, some by Austin Street area, some by Union Turnpike area, by the courthouses/central booking area, and by the end of Queens Blvd where it meets up with Hillside Ave by the car dealerships and KFC.
- Aug 1, 2004
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oh yeah?
FDNY union: De Blasio’s ‘Vision Zero’ is slowing response times
By Rich Calder
September 19, 2019 | 11:21am
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
Matthew McDermott
The FDNY’s response times to blazes and other emergencies are rising dramatically — and the city’s firefighters union says Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative, aimed at reducing traffic deaths, is a big reason why.
The Uniformed Firefighters Association is accusing the de Blasio administration of putting New Yorkers at risk by relentlessly saturating city streets with road barriers to help slow down traffic.
“Vision Zero is fully intended to save lives from traffic accidents, but by [the city] adding in concrete barriers and flower pots and everything else like that, you’re basically eliminating the ability for emergency service vehicles to get around,” Bobby Eustace, the UFA’s recording secretary, told The Post.
“Intersections are now gridlocked, and our guys just can’t get around.”
He added that condensing streets actually lacks vision because it’s making it more difficult for fire trucks to make turns and navigate during firefighting, including raising aerial ladders.
Eustace and the union were responding to new data released this week through the Mayor’s Management Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, which shows response times by the FDNY’s fire companies and paramedics are up across the board in most categories.
Response times to structural fires rose eight seconds over the previous year, from 4 minutes 20 seconds to 4:28 — despite a slight decline in these types of blazes citywide over the same period, from 27,280 to 26,207.
Meanwhile, average response times to life-threatening medical emergencies by ambulances rose by 26 seconds over the past year from 6:55 to 7:23. Fire companies saw a six-second increase, from 4:42 to 4:48.
In fiscal 2013, during Mike Bloomberg’s final year as mayor, ambulances on average responded to life-threatening emergencies in 6:45 and fire companies in 4:16.
Eustace said a big problem is City Hall repeatedly “fails to get word to rank-and-file firefighters” before it takes away traffic lanes to install dedicated bike lanes, traffic medians or other traffic-calming measures.
“We had a company in the Bronx [traveling at night last month] hit one of these barriers going 30 miles an hour, and it almost flipped the rig because they had no idea it was there,” Eustace said.
“That was the first they saw it. They were simply trying to go around a person [while] responding to a structural fire, and they smashed into one of these [concrete barriers].”
Vision Zero isn’t the only reason response times are rising, according to the union. It also blames private construction, Uber and other ride-hailing apps putting more vehicles on the road, and the Fire Department’s refusal to reassign a fifth firefighter to all Big Apple engine companies.
Overall, fire company runs dipped by nearly 20,000 in the past year to 1.14 million, and medical emergencies remained steady at nearly 568,000. In fiscal 2013, the FDNY had less of a workload, including 983,615 fire company runs and 450,423 serious medical emergencies.
Among the FDNY’s bright spots in the mayor’s annual performance report is that civilian fire fatalities dropped 30.1 percent in the past year, from 97 to 67. Six years earlier, there were 47.
Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation, insisted his agency works with FDNY “and other first responders on every Vision Zero project to see that their vehicles have access when needed, and that response times are not impacted.”
“This is a critical part of our street redesign process,” Gastel added.
To help improve response times, the FDNY says, it plans to hire more paramedics and emergency medical technicians as well as expand the so-called “fly car” program in the Bronx next month where paramedics use specially equipped SUVs to respond to emergencies faster.
Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), who chairs the fire and emergency management committee, said response-time “stats are always concerning because seconds mean lives,” adding he will “look to address” lack of FDNY staffing in next year’s budget.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/fdny-union-de-blasios-vision-zero-is-slowing-response-times/
if anyone is familiar with Dyckman, da idiot powers that be installed 2 protected bike lanes on both sides of da streets, eliminated all but one travel lane on each side, and slowed traffic to molasses... anytime someone tried to park, da entire avenue grounded to a halt... trucks delivering freight couldn't double park on da lane that now turned into a buffer, also snarled traffic...it KILLED business for stores lined up on da ave because people could no longer double park, grab something quick & bounce.
it was so bad, our 1st Dominican Congress made a video about it.
backlash was so fierce they completely removed them last year.
so yeah, next administration is gonna pared that ish down significantly... hopefully tragedy doesn't happen before then with a emergency vehicle being delayed from somewhere.
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I've gotten hit 3 times with those speed cameras on Queens Blvd now
use waze, it tells exactly where they're at.
and that's another thing that will go away as soon, or be super reduced come next election, drivers ARE NOT HAPPY.
luckily NY State Senate and house are all up for re-election next year as well as city council seats, I'm willing to bet that local constituents will not tolerate constant tax from speed cameras and other measures that make driving exceedingly harder to do.
- May 12, 2008
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Clearly you exaggerating the travel time it takes to travel from point A to B"
i hope u not taking mass transit in Texas.
You are talking about the weekend, when anyone knows the weekend is when MTA is doing repairs to the system overnight. Not gonna be like everyday of the week. And that speaks for the whole system.
"Police activity, sick passenger, A confused black Dominican person who doesn't identify himself as black person and who still with his mother at 30+"
Isn't gonna cripple the system and take em 2hrs from A to B. Stop it son.
- Jan 29, 2013
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man is acting like police activity and signal problems are a daily thing. you never had a commute that wasn’t delayed?
- Jul 19, 2006
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All of this has me thinking this dude is not from NYC. He probably just comes to visit from time to time. No way he actually lives here.
- May 12, 2008
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Nah he from NYC... probably took him 30 minutes to cross the street cause of avoiding neighborhood gangs, walking while black, stop and frisk etc..
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im not depending on a train to get me to where u gotta go without basically being late all da time... getting in ur car at your own time and going to your destination >>> waiting on da damn subway over run with panhandling smelly dope fiends ??
wait till winter comes, ish gonna be a defacto shelter.
- Aug 1, 2004
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nope.
MTA got a policy where u can actually request a "late slip" to give to your job whenever your train is late...saved my *** a few times back then.
- Feb 2, 2014
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denim capris are popping up there?
did tekashi start this?
did tekashi start this?
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Nah he from NYC... probably took him 30 minutes to cross the street cause of avoiding neighborhood gangs, walking while black, stop and frisk etc..
Ninja who took the pic? Or you set the timer and rest the phone on a lamp post?
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Home boy sucking in that gut for the picture tellm breathe
tellm breathe
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where is my answer?
there's your answer.
you look nothing like pharrell
you might have to break this one down for me
- May 12, 2008
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I think those are vintage parasuco jeans he kept from the 90s...
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looking like Pharrell ≠ Pharrell popularizing slim denim cut offs.
- Feb 2, 2014
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no, im saying yall aren't even wearing the same thing
pharell isn't wearing rolled up capris
- Aug 1, 2004
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Y’all wildin’.
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here's wearing even shorter denim cut offs.
and here's him wearing even shorter rolled up capris.
whats your point?
- Jul 27, 2012
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I couldn’t drive in Manhattan. Especially anything south of 96th Street. Too much congestion, too many ****** drivers, and too many pedestrians (I’m one of those) who doesn’t give a ****. I’m fine taking the train. If need be I’ll just take an Uber if i have to be somewhere right away. The hell with trying to find parking. I’ll drive in the other boroughs and upstate though.
I hate traffic period. LA traffic is a nightmare as well. I turned down a job downtown in favor of a job which paid a little less because I didn’t want to commute to DTLA every day and deal with that traffic to and from work. The peace of mind, shorter commute and extra sleep was clutch for me.
As for the heights to Fordham. Should be about 45 mins tops if you’re taking the train. i’d pregame at lucky 7’s before going to Yankee games a lot. I know one of those buses goes over the bridge and gets to the 4 train. Or you could just take the A to 145th and switch to the D. Both took me about 30 mins, given Fordham is only a stops down. Shouldn’t me much longer.
I hate traffic period. LA traffic is a nightmare as well. I turned down a job downtown in favor of a job which paid a little less because I didn’t want to commute to DTLA every day and deal with that traffic to and from work. The peace of mind, shorter commute and extra sleep was clutch for me.
As for the heights to Fordham. Should be about 45 mins tops if you’re taking the train. i’d pregame at lucky 7’s before going to Yankee games a lot. I know one of those buses goes over the bridge and gets to the 4 train. Or you could just take the A to 145th and switch to the D. Both took me about 30 mins, given Fordham is only a stops down. Shouldn’t me much longer.
- Feb 2, 2014
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those are shorts.
not capris.
both of yall wildin to me....you wildin more for thinking you pulled pharell's style off
yall's fits look nothing alike to me
not even comparable
where is alp to make sense of this?
not capris.
both of yall wildin to me....you wildin more for thinking you pulled pharell's style off
yall's fits look nothing alike to me
not even comparable
where is alp to make sense of this?
