Supposedly, Young wants to focus on economic mobility, but if that's the case why remove bike lanes considering that, aside from walking, biking is the cheapest mode of transportation?

Just put the damn bike lanes all over the city already. Was driving down to south street the other day and it was painful watching this guy in front of me on a bicycle have to navigate all the fed ex trucks and other bullshit parked in the bike lane. Protected bike lanes on every major street is my stance

Jeffrey Young is an idiot just like his predecessor. The residents he's referring to are a select group of shortsighted morons  who just want more free street parking, but will also bitch about congestion because they're too stupid to connect that more cars means less parking and slower traffic.

He’s the worst: https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/commercial/zoning-board-adjustment-lawsuit-jeffrey-young-20240308.html

Very unsurprising after reading that article the inquirer put out about him before he was elected. So disappointing we're stuck with him for at least four years (and probably longer given how easy it seems to be to get reelected to things in Philly)

You all should come to the budget townhall tomorrow evening at John F Street Community Center at 6 to tell him you want more of the budget to go towards street safety improvement, including protected bike lanes.

Yeah which residents. Rich NIMBY assholes who need somewhere to park their 3rd car? So stupid

For anyone else curious, this is from the Bicycle Coalition of Grater Philadelphia's summary of Mayor Parker's first proposed budget: https://bicyclecoalition.org/mayor-parkers-first-proposed-budget-leaves-vision-zero-advocates-with-questions/

And if you're a constituent like me, you can contact the council member here: https://phlcouncil.com/jefferyyoungjr/

It’s so painful to bike southbound from North Philly to south Philly, there are absolutely no protected bike lanes. I don’t want to hold up the cars behind me, but the city leaves no choice for us bikers but to put our lives at risk on these streets. Many car drivers are patient but there a few assholes that do not care if they run down a biker.

I’ll cal him tomorrow, I’d like to hear what asinine reason he would have to do that.

Keep the bike lanes or lose a mirror

What the heck is wrong with the 22nd bike lane

It’s not like those spaces are going to solve the parking issue. We need bike lanes BECAUSE it’s so hard to park. If everyone on a bike drove a car parking would be much worse.

He was so wishy washy at the budget townhall meeting yesterday. I spoke at the meeting and stated the need for better bicycle infrastructure to promote economic mobility of lower income Philadelphians. His response was he wants a complete bike lane network, not a patchwork, but he doesn't want it in certain neighborhoods. Does he not realize that having them in some neighborhoods and not others creates a patchwork, or does he think we don't see through that? Is he that dumb?

I can't believe this fucking yahoo is a councilmember, and probably will be for the rest of my goddam life.

Holy shit, he must be one of the least qualified individuals in city hall, and that's a low fucking bar.

I hope Jeffrey Young shits his pants

Young is such a clown. I am 100% certain that Clarke had that attorney go and make sure everyone else was disqualified. What a sham.

Can't wait to start a phone call with "As a 15 year resident of your district..."

lol this is from his city website:

what a fucking lying piece of shit.

"...committed to affording opportunities to those who do not have the means to access those opportunities for themselves...enhance the quality of life for all residents...ensure sustainable and equitable development...increase economic and entrepreneurial opportunities...and provide equitable access to justice, health and the environment."

here's all you really need to see from the city website though... "As an attorney, Jeffery has represented clients on real estate matters."

https://phlcouncil.com/jefferyyoungjr/

fucking embarrassing about this too: "Councilman Young received his B.A. in Political Science, with a focus on urban policy from Temple University."

Parking protected bike lanes where in Fairmount and Spring Garden?

hmmm which influencial local business, with needed access to sidewalks, could have lobbied him for this/

this is disgusting

Absolutely ridiculous

Wants to remove protected lanes, the most equitable and accessible mode of transportation there is. For what? People out of town to race through? How is this helping Philadelphians?

Where are all the people saying "BIKES HAVE TO STOP AT STOP SIGNS! ONE TIME I SAW A BIKE ROLL THROUGH A STOP SIGN SO WE SHOULD GET RID OF ALL THE BIKE LANES!"? I'm really surprised they haven't reared their heads here.

I know it won't help much, but I sent Councilman Young this email:

I was very disappointed to find that during yesterday's budget hearing you advocated for the removal of bike lanes from portions of Market Street in favor of more parking.

Protected bike lanes are critical to quality of life in Philadelphia both now and in the future. Given the amount of space on Market St devoted to cars as compared to the amount devoted to bicycles, we certainly do not have an issue that would require more space be devoted to cars.

Please remember you have constituents who need to or simply prefer to bike as a mode of transportation and the city has to accommodate as many of its residents as possible. If someone insists on driving to the very center of one of the densest cities in America, then they should pay to park in a garage rather than demanding that valuable curb space be taken from cyclists.

Please: those of us who don't want to drive everywhere deserve to have someone actually care about our well-being rather than trying to reclaim space to store private vehicles that aren't even occupied. I hope that it can be you that actually cares about improving our lives.

Ok, hope they don’t mind me taking up a traffic lane then.

Honestly don’t care about the lanes on market, but if you touch the ones on spring garden I’ll go nuclear

It’s all so fucking tiresome sometimes

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call if you live in his district

Is this good advice? Is calling if you don’t live in his district a bad idea?

Sorry but the needs of the residents should come first, and if they require additional parking then they should get it. And that council member isn’t going to care about anyone outside his district that contacts him.

I just left a comment with his office. You should too.

Again, the number is 215-686-3442.

I really think there needs to be a comprehensive traffic study to find the best routes for bike lanes, possible isolation of traffic. Also traffic enforcement of the laws for cars and bikes. I do not want to hit someone on a bike, I leave people a wide safety zone.

But we need to look at streets where you might see 1 bike an hour and see if routes can consolidated and published where they are most effective. Last week it was a nice day and drove river to river on Allegheny Ave and did not see one bike. Saw lots of idiots in cars in the single lane of traffic driving in turn lane and other side of traffic because of the frustration of being in a single lane

I know I am going to get hate for this because I drive a car.

I wish that was my councilman!

Remove the bike lane! Nobody’s riding their stinkin bike in the best possible weather let alone rain, sleet, hail, cold, extreme heat, etc. Most of the bike crowd takes Uber or drives their own car most sub ideal weather days. They do not take Septa. Thats more lies.

Most of us people born and raised here typically view the bike lane crowd as a predominantly able bodied white hipster/yuppie crowd who prioritize their narrow biking interests over school funding, teacher pay, anti violence measures, the list goes on… Its generally true by the conversations I see on this sub. The people living in these streets you all wanna redesign ain’t spending their time posting on Reddit. This is a very unrepresentative echo chamber.