David Meyer
Born and raised in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, David fell in love with journalism as a kid accompanying his reporter dad on stories while school was out. A reporter at Streetsblog from 2015 to 2019, David returned as Streetsblog Deputy Editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post. A graduate of Montgomery Blair High School and the University of Maryland, he lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Recent Posts
Car Storage Clashes Against Affordable Housing on the Upper West Side
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Which do New Yorkers value more: parking garages to store cars or apartments to house neighbors? Rarely is the question framed as starkly as with the plan to demolish two city-owned parking garages and build 304 units of subsidized housing on 108th Street.
Bernie Sanders Throws His Weight Behind de Blasio’s Hollow Transit Populism
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"Our Revolution" won't overturn the status quo of free driving privileges, available only to the car-owning class, which clogs streets and slows down bus service in NYC.
Eyes on the Street: Leading Bicycle Intervals and Semi-Protected Intersections
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Readers are spying new DOT intersection treatments for bikeways popping up in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Elected Officials Join Call for Midtown Fifth Avenue Bikeway
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For the second time, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council Member Dan Garodnick, and State Senator Brad Hoylman called on DOT to make walking and biking safer on Fifth Avenue in Midtown.
De Blasio Admin Waffles on Williamsburg Bridge Bus Lanes During L Train Shutdown
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As the L train shutdown approaches and the deadline for a detailed plan of action from DOT and the MTA draws closer, the de Blasio administration is hesitating to take the necessary steps to prioritize buses and high-occupancy vehicles.
De Blasio’s Wrong: Poor New Yorkers Stand to Gain a Lot From Congestion Pricing
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Hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers stand to benefit from new transit funding, compared to just 5,000 who might pay tolls to car commute under the Move NY plan.
MTA’s Next-Gen Fare System Contract Treats All-Door Boarding as an Experiment, Not an Urgent Priority
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While the capability for citywide all-door boarding will be embedded in the new fare payment technology, the MTA's contract with Cubic shows the agency is still in no rush. It includes a pilot of all-door bus boarding on some lines but no firm commitment to citywide adoption.
Prospect Park Goes Car-Free Forever on January 2
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Over the course of many years and several thousand volunteer hours - including massive petition campaigns in 2002 and 2008 - advocates were able to get DOT to gradually whittle down the times and places where cars were allowed in the park.
The mayor's announcement today is the culmination of that steady advocacy and the incremental progress toward a car-free park.
De Blasio Announces 10-Year Plan for 21 More Select Bus Service Routes
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The map of enhanced bus routes looks good, but the timetable isn't much more ambitious than what the city is doing already.
De Blasio and NYPD Should Talk to Delivery Workers About E-Bikes
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The mayor is rushing ahead with a punitive approach to e-bike use instead of shaping policy based on how the food delivery business actually works.
Will the MTA Put Better Transit Data to Work for Riders?
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The Montreal-based app Transit is based on an unorthodox assumption: trip planning limited to directions from Point A to Point B doesn’t actually fit the needs of most riders, who travel the same route every day. “[The idea] we started with at Transit was to give the information of the next bus at the stop [where […]
Riders and Bus Drivers Urge MTA to Bring All-Door Boarding to Every Route in the City
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Bus riders and drivers gathered outside MTA headquarters this morning to demand citywide all-door boarding, which the agency can mandate in its upcoming contract for a new fare collection system.