Harlem Pol Rallies to Stop Truck Depot, But Won’t Meet Site Developer to Seek New Plan
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“My theory of change is based in people power," Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan said on Saturday.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks
‘Park Your Fleet’: Harlem Residents Decry Newly Opened Truck Depot On Site of Proposed Housing
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A neighborhood that needs more housing and less pollution got the opposite.
National Safety Board Chair Discusses Vision Zero and the Problems of Heavy EVs
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"We have to be careful that we aren’t also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."
Essay: Sarah Langenkamp Loved biking. She Shouldn’t Have Died Because of It.
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"We can certainly turn around our deadly trends. Sarah, other victims, and so many families mourning this holiday season deserve at least as much."
Opinion: The Real Reason Why Americans Keep Buying SUVs
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Urbanists often see SUV purchases as an unnecessarily individualistic expression of decadence, but perhaps we might start to see this reaction as a personal strategy to mitigate a developmental priority that promotes exclusivity.
Harlem Environmental Justice Group Blasts Developer for Truck Depot
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Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.