Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Op/Ed

Fordham Road looking west from the southeast corner of Webster Avenue. The packed road and bollixed buses are typical of the morning, evening and midday rush. File photo: Eve Kessler

Op-Ed: Fordham Road is the Busway We Need Next

By Cecil Brooks and John Halpin | Nov 5, 2019 | No Comments

In the city's third-largest shopping district, buses crawl, drivers kill and fumes endanger people and the environment. Time for a new busway.

Riders using Lime scooter. Photo: Kris Krug

Op-Ed: How Cities Should Regulate Scooters

By Adam Kovacevich | Oct 29, 2019 | No Comments

Some principles or avoiding a "Wild West" environment from a key official with Lime, the scooter company.

The Select Bus Service project on Woodhaven Boulevard, a major north-south route in Queens, promised to make streets safer. But people who want to travel by bike have no safe routes to other parts of Queens in this transit and bike desert. But there's plenty of free parking!

Op-Ed: Let’s Build Bus and Bike Infrastructure Together

By Samuel Santaella | Oct 23, 2019 | No Comments

It is disappointing that, as the boroughs finally modernize their bus services with bus lanes, stop-consolidation and more, cycling again seems left out of the picture.

The Trump circus came to town on Sept. 25, in the form of self-styled climate activist John DeLiva Halpern getting up on a chair and yelling, "You want to clown around with me?" Photo Jake Offenhartz via Twitter

Op-Ed: The Latest Bikelash Has An Odious, Trumpist Feel

By Eric McClure | Oct 21, 2019 | No Comments

The lunatic fringe is pushing a truly "fake news" message that cars are virtuous and bikes are dangerous.

Urbanist Michael King says that there should be more bollards like this. Opinions expressed by King are, of course, his, not necessarily Streetsblog's!

Op-Ed: Hey, Streetsblog, Bollards Everywhere Ain’t So Bad!

By Michael King | Oct 2, 2019 | 13 Comments

That said, they may not be the optimal solution.

On a mission: The "Missed Connections" ride took bikers to a number of dangerous — but easily fixed — Brooklyn locations. Here, however, they are riding in the 4th Avenue protected bike lane. Photo: Vladimir Vince

Op-Ed: Bike Lane Missing? Danger Found

By Vladimir Vince | Aug 23, 2019 | 10 Comments

A group bike ride around Brooklyn shows that DOT has its work cut out for it. Here are small fixes that could keep cyclists and pedestrians alive.

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