People who aren't scumbags unwilling to pay 2 dollars for the public service they are taking advantage of

> I don’t want these people dying out in the streets

Then they were successful: These people didn't die.

If you want people to die, make them do drugs in the streets. If you dont want them to die, provide harm reduction.

It should be illegal in your home. A country where it's illegal to assault an adult but it's legal to assault a kid is sick.

Peek behind the cashiers at some Duane Reade locations.

So 700 people have gone to the safe centers, overdosed, we’re given Narcan or life saving treatment and told “thank you, come back next time!” I don’t know, the whole situation seems fucked up. I don’t want these people dying out in the streets but there has to be some middle ground here.

Out of curiosity why did reducing the lane dramatically increase traffic? Couldn’t you say induced demand is only true to a degree, as some people / professions / purposes require driving so there’s a minimum number of cars “necessary” at any given point?

Is it really less weight when cars are just parked on it basically all the time? I’m not physicist so have no clue, but I’m guessing the reduced lane makes up for the increased average duration of car there?

No comment lest someone accuse me of “harassment” for shedding light on the situation. But pretty much everything that’s been said about the polling ended up either not being true or not happening sooooo pretty sure there will never be resolution here.

700 number refers to instances of somebody overdosing, in which it was reverse. It does not necessarily it prevented 700 people from overdosing. One person can be treated multiple time and each time a overdose was averted, it counts towards the 700 number.

Other articles have said these sites are essentially visited by the same 2,000 people throughout the year. With those people accounting for about 40,000 visits to these sites.

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It did! There is less stress on infrastructure by weight, so perhaps it won't collapse killing hundreds before the electeds decide to fix it.

Who’s even keeping track at this point?

it was already a bottleneck and now it’s even worse.

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Yea it’s mind boggling that there’s no train going from Queens to Brooklyn directly

Reducing it to two lanes is a nightmare. The BQE and Belt Parkway both need more lanes not less. Less lanes is causing congestion that adds pollution and cost to the products we buy. I also agree that part of the solution is adding public transit so that less people need to drive. And add freight lines so commerce can be taken off the roads.

Still looks like a Butterfinger wrapper.

Honest question: how can they claim to have prevented seven hundred overdoses when the nyc overdose numbers are at an all time high? Are they saying that they have had 700 people use their services therefor preventing their deaths?

That lane is very narrow but ok

Again, this isn’t adding lanes, it’s reinstating a lane that already exists and was lessened to 2 lanes for a small portion of the BQE which creates a bottleneck at all times of the day.

I definitely wants this!

I’m curious too. Is there some benefit to a separate card?

Because I get a transit card from work with pretax funds on it, and the card vendor doesn’t offer chipped cards.

Happy to give it a watch and give a more detailed response tomorrow. Off the bat, not super impressed with HRW's language covering the incident, which is just excessively biased in favor of protestors with apparently no interest in covering the events dispassionately and accurately. Maybe that's to be expected from a group that probably considers itself pretty anti-cop.

Yes, I don't think the NYPD have a systemic problem with excessive use of force. I interacted with them too many times in too many contexts for your claim to be statistically possible. I saw consistent use restraint in their actions and justifiable force when it was deployed. The abuse from dozen-plus protests I saw was coming solely from protestors (in the form of verbal abuse). That's an actually accurate accounting coming from someone that doesn't really prefer one group over the other.

Why not just use a credit card...?