Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Interviews

How Can Sustainable Transportation Advocates Help End Poverty? An Interview with Matthew Desmond

By Streetsblog | Apr 27, 2023 | No Comments

One in nine Americans live in poverty, and millions more live in a precarious place somewhere between precarity and true security. A new book argues that we can all play a role in challenging the systems and individual choices that "keep poor people poor" for benefit for everyone else.

Assembly Member Ken Zebroswki is the new guy overseeing the MTA. Photo: NYS Assembly

Meet The New Boss: Assembly Corporations Chair Kenneth Zebrowski on His Plans For MTA Oversight

By Dave Colon | Jan 13, 2023 | No Comments

Here's our conversation with the Assembly member who just landed the plum job of overseeing the MTA!

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‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes

By Kea Wilson | Feb 2, 2022 | No Comments

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy talks to Streetsblog about how why it's so important to say the right things about our national traffic crash crisis.

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Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 11, 2017 | No Comments

Licensed transportation engineers are supposed to abide by an ethical code of conduct that places the highest priority on public safety. But if you look outside at the closest street, you'll probably see the result of engineering decisions that are antithetical to protecting people's lives.

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Keith Benjamin Brings a Fresh Perspective to City Streets in Charleston

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2017 | No Comments

After developing policies to make transportation systems more equitable at U.S. DOT under Anthony Foxx, Keith Benjamin is helming the city DOT in Charleston.

Ryan Russo walks through the redesign of Queens Boulevard for Streetfilms.

Ryan Russo on NYC’s Bike Network Progress, Community Boards, and the Evolution of DOT

By Ben Fried | May 9, 2017 | 7 Comments

Russo discusses the state of bike network development, the potential introduction of different types of safety improvements to NYC streets, and how the public process for street redesign projects might be improved.

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