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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

Back from the Brink: https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf Police focused (+ transit & pigeons). The bouncer blocks quickly, sometimes just for bad vibes. @moskos elsewhere.

New York, NY Katılım Kasım 2011
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai Also, as they do, "Here's another street with no cars driving on it; and look at all those unused cars filling the parking spaces." That to me would seem to me to be pointless sentence, and least in terms of drawing broader conclusions. What am I missing?
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Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai So what? I mean have you looked at rental car parking lots? They're filled with cars most of the time. Would it be better +or more efficient) if citibike had half the number of bikes? Idk. I doubt it. But that's an operational question not an existential one.
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Patrick Berzai
Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@PeterMoskos lol 23 hours of idle time a day. I hope I’m not the first to tell you this, there are but 24 hours in a day.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai I would say that like many systems, from transit to power to police to a hospital to Citibike, for a system to function well, the system needs to be able to handle _peak_ capacity. So there will or should always be excess capacity most of the time.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai I didn't get the point. Thank you. I think that is irrelevant, but at least now I understand what the point it. Does that argument also apply to cars? Or are cars different because they're individually owned?
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai Though this does help me understand the point people are trying to make. Is this the idea: citibike is bad the bikes are not in continuous use? Is that the argument? Maybe I didn't get the point people were trying to make. I though the idea was the bikes are parked & never used.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai I don't understand the "idle" standard. They're not supposed to be in continuous use. It's why we have parking for them. So they're _available_. Just like cars. (Except anybody can use them.)
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@fsholars @sp6runderrated You know why I want a contested bike lane near me (on 31st St?). Because it will be good for me. And I understand it won't be good for the King of Souvlaki truck. And I still want it. No not even for greater public good (though it _might_ be). I want it because I want it.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@sp6runderrated @fsholars Me, too. When somebody says, "I want free parking in front of my house," I get it. And I might be against that, but it's a position we can discuss. Please don't tell me a bike lane or pedestrian plaza* will cause people in an apartment building to freeze to death (* true story!)
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sp6r=underrated
sp6r=underrated@sp6runderrated·
@fsholars @PeterMoskos I talk to people IRL about housing. And it is refreshing because almost everyone is candid. In SF there is a big fight about a highway that runs along the coast being closed. My boss "that highway being closed brings more cars on my street." I like honesty.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai Over decades, I've found numbers do not persuade. But I persist. Because I like numbers. You're also seriously over-estimating the time and effort I put into a tweet. I did a search, found data, took latest month (not largest, latest). Divided by 30. nyc.gov/html/dot/downl…
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Patrick Berzai
Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@PeterMoskos If no one thinks differently, why post numbers? You seem to think you don’t need to have a metric for utility, but you’re wrong, you do. 7 rides per bike per day at peak usage isn’t worth it. Even at 30 mins each, that is 20 hrs per bike per day they ARE just sitting there.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@fsholars Ah, but the parked cars not in use are indicative of how essential they are. The parked bikes not in use show how they're never used. Or something like that. It is odd logic.
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Forrest Sholars
Forrest Sholars@fsholars·
@PeterMoskos Its a bit funny when you look behind the bikes and see a bunch of cars parked -- also not being used! I understand why users of any type of transportation get annoyed at others, but its generally dumb. We should want as many varied ways to get to place.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@patrickberzai I just used the numbers from the last month for which there was real data easily accessible. I'm sure it's lower in winter. I also think I could have written anything and it wouldn't matter. It's just a number. Nobody will think differently were it were 50k or 500K.
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Patrick Berzai
Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@PeterMoskos That number should be higher to justify how much it cuts off traffic and be adjusted for seasonality.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
@AAC0519 Yes. But they're unrelated. The problem is there are not enough ambulances and not enough men and women to work them.
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AAE
AAE@AAC0519·
@PeterMoskos Maybe ambulances are more important than bicycles
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
Delayed ambulance response in NYC is a very real problem largely flying under the public's radar. Cops call for a "bus" at 5:44. It never arrives. At 6:25 cops stop waiting and drive the man to the hospital. He died half an hour later. nydailynews.com/2026/05/04/dea…
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
Crime was down in Jan and Feb but they were extremely cold and snowy months. But April? Seemed pretty normal to me. And last 28 days compared to 2025, shootings are down 20%. Car thefts down 25%. Murders are down 30% on the year (and even more last 28 days).
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Jessica S. Tisch@NYPDPC

Crime in New York City continues to fall to historic levels: ➡️ Fewest murders ever recorded through the first four months of the year — and for the month of April ➡️ Major crime down 9.5% ➡️ Shooting incidents and victims down double digits compared to last April ➡️ Retail

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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
RT @NYCMayor: I am horrified and angered by the swastikas painted on homes and a synagogue in Forest Hills, including on a plaque honoring…
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
RT @RonFilipkowski: RFK Jr caught a starling at the Dulles Airport today. I don’t want to know what happened after.
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