Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Op/Ed

CYCLE OF RAGE: Another Ticking Time Bomb Goes Off in Park Slope

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 17, 2022 | No Comments

A Park Slope pedestrian was struck and injured recently by the driver of a Honda — a car that had been slapped with nine camera-issued speeding tickets and three red light tickets in less than two years. It's the same old story.

KOMANOFF: Idiocy of Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Eludes Times Columnist

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 13, 2022 | No Comments

New Yorkers don’t need lofty essays that make congestion pricing an object lesson in environmental process gone wrong.

Philadelphia isn't even on this freakin' map.

OPINION: Pete Buttigieg Is Failing New York (And The Country) on Congestion Pricing

By Dave Colon | Jun 10, 2022 | No Comments

Traffic patterns in Philadelphia? In PHILADELPHIA?!

Looking west on the new car-free Brooklyn Bridge. In the background are new wooden platforms between the stone piers, where visitors can go up and down between the old roadways and the elevated walkway. The decks provide flexible space for seating, food carts, exhibits, and the like. Rendering: Zeke Mermell

OPINION: We Can Have Nice Things … Once We Get Rid of King Car

By John Massengale | Jun 8, 2022 | No Comments

Europe has great public places. A walk or bike ride from Borough Hall to City Hall across an auto-free Brooklyn Bridge would equal any of them.

This is what we get when we subsidize cars, says Ryder Kessler (inset).

OPINION: New York Must Stop Subsidizing Car Usage

By Ryder Kessler | Jun 7, 2022 | No Comments

Enough is enough, says a candidate for Assembly from downtown Manhattan.

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OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles

By Streetsblog | Jun 5, 2022 | No Comments

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