Staten Island Borough President’s Bike Commuters’ Breakfast

By Aaron Donovan
Apr 30, 2007

Celebrate cycling in Staten Island with a free breakfast with the Staten Island Borough President, James Molinaro. Breakfast will be served in time for commuters to catch the 8:15 and 8:30 am ferry to Manhattan.

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The MTA's plan will increase service frequency on key routes, simplify routes so buses make fewer turns, reduce the number of stops in both Manhattan and Staten Island. Image: MTA

MTA’s Staten Island Bus Overhaul Points the Way Forward for the Rest of NYC

By David Meyer | Jun 1, 2017

Staten Island's express buses are getting a complete overhaul, MTA officials and Borough President James Oddo announced yesterday. These changes will save people time by better aligning bus service with travel patterns -- and they could be a template for bus network improvements citywide.

We Win!!!… a Trip to Albany?

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 2, 2008

This morning’s Crain’s Insider names Streetsblog one of the winners of Monday’s congestion pricing vote in City Council. While we’re honored, no one around here is spiking the ball or dancing in the end zone until New York’s famously dysfunctional state legislature is done doing whatever it is they’re going to do to the plan. […]

Three Hack-tastic Ideas to Fix Staten Island’s Broken Bus System

By David Meyer | Mar 11, 2016

For all intents and purposes, Staten Island’s bus network is broken. Which isn’t surprising when you consider that the borough’s 31 local routes have barely changed in the last half-century. For the most part, ancient bus lines that pre-date the Verrazano Bridge (which opened in 1964) don’t go where people actually need to get around. Then there […]

Pedestrian Deaths Have Fallen in Every Borough Except Staten Island

By Stephen Miller | Feb 20, 2015

DOT released the final installment of its pedestrian safety plans yesterday with a report for Staten Island [PDF], where the nature of pedestrian crashes is different than in the other boroughs. Over the past three decades, the city as a whole grew approximately 19 percent while the number of pedestrian fatalities was cut in half. On Staten Island, […]

First Things First: Staten Island Needs Bikeable Streets

By David Meyer | Dec 7, 2016

Borough President James Oddo says he wants bike-share for his constituents, but in his time in elected office, he's done little to make bicycling conditions safer on Staten Island.

Cyclists Blindsided By City’s Erasure of Father Capodanno Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Nov 18, 2010

For the second time in 12 months, the Bloomberg administration will remove a link in the bicycle network after receiving complaints from bike lane opponents. The Staten Island Advance reports that the bike lane on Father Capodanno Boulevard will not be striped again after the street is repaved. The news comes two months after the […]