Dave Colon
Email Dave Colon at dcolon@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
In Their Own Words: New Yorkers Want Congestion Pricing … And Now
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Some amazingly eloquent New Yorkers speaking out for relief from constant abuse by car drivers.
Mayor’s Management Report Shows Some Improvements, Lots of Problems Under The Surface
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Mayor de Blasio's final Mayor's Management Report is full of numbers on the upswing, but not very up. And some not up at all.
THE EXPLAINER: Everything You Need to Know About These Congestion Pricing Public Meetings
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Our full review of weeks of hearings starts with the obvious question: Oh god why is this happening?
Bridge Too Far? Lafayette And Centre Streets Will Get Protected Bike Lanes In 2021 — Maybe
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The Brooklyn Bridge bike lane is here, but cyclists might have to wait 'til next year for a safer connection to and from it.
New Bike Lanes Coming to Howard Beach — But Not on the Damn Addabbo Bridge
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How come the Brooklyn Bridge can get thousands of pounds of new jersey barriers, but the existing barriers on the Addabbo Bridge can't simply be moved?
DOT Will Pull the Trigger on Navy Street Protected Bike Lane
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The Department of Transportation quietly announced on Tuesday that it was moving ahead with a protected bike lane on Navy Street, filling in a missing link connecting the Brooklyn waterfront to DUMBO and the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
Please Stay On The Grass: More Absorbent Streets Could Mean Less Catastrophically Flooded Subways
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Here’s what the city has to do now. Ripping up some asphalt is a start.
MTA, Feds Promise Congestion Pricing Won’t Start For A Long, Long Time
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It’s a new kind of idling.
Report: MTA’s Barely Funded Capital Plan Badly Needs Congestion Pricing Cash
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The MTA's current rehabilitation program is being starved of funding due to the state's failure to enact congestion pricing, among other things.
De Blasio to MTA: 16-Month Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Is ‘Ridiculous’
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The mayor is the latest to accuse the governor and his transit henchmen of slow-walking the not-controversial-at-all-unless-you-love-cars plan. (Look at the face he made!)
MTA Drops Bike-Permit Requirement for Suburban Railroads
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It's the first step in a long battle to make the traditionally anti-cycling agency more bike friendly.
After Cuomo: What the MTA Should Immediately Do Once Andrew is Gone
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Andrew Cuomo — the governor who never saw an MTA budget he didn't want to raid or a splashy but expensive project he didn't want to push — will soon be gone. So what kind of governor should Kathy Hochul be?