New Jersey calls it “complete streets,” but what we get is paint on asphalt, police tickets, a light, and ride for kids in areas with no infrastructure so we can collect death data. That isn’t accessibility—it’s negligence dressed up as policy. Lark illustrates the everyday challenges of navigating to work by bicycle within a system that criminalizes safe choices, while Kimberly analyzes how framing systemic design failures as matters of individual responsibility obscures deeper structural issues. They argue that effective mobility justice requires moving beyond symbolic measures toward integrated investments in transit, cycling infrastructure, and equity-driven planning. If this is progress, it’s progress for cars, not people. Until New Jersey invests in real transit, protected bike lanes, and safe, equitable design, “complete streets” will remain nothing more than an empty slogan.