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The Council still hopes to reform the private carting industry.

‘Working Group’ Needed to Revive Trash Hauler Reform Stalled by Adams, Pol Says

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 9, 2023 | No Comments

A Brooklyn Council Member is hoping to light a fire under the city's stalled effort to overhaul the dangerous private carting industry — by launching a "working group" to make sense of the ongoing delays to the program passed and signed under ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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How Deadly Are Your Streets? New Data Tool Shows the Hard Truth

By Kea Wilson | Feb 8, 2023 | No Comments

A new federal tool helps Americans see at a glance exactly how deadly traffic violence is in their community — and how their neighbors stack up.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams ... thinking about congestion. Main photo: Kevin Duggan

Wednesday’s Headlines: Speaker Adams’s Ongoing Assault on Congestion Pricing Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Feb 8, 2023 | No Comments

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams can't stop trashing congestion pricing as bad for her constituents ... when it in fact, it will be good for them. Plus other news.

Give him your tired, your poorly treated plates. Or not.

State Car Boss: ‘Send Me Pictures of Defaced Plates!’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 8, 2023 | No Comments

The commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles told New Yorkers to send him pictures of defaced license plates so that his agency can address the problem ... by sending the registered owner a new set of clean tags on the house.

Council ‘Almost There’ on Permanent Open Restaurants: Speaker Adams

By Kevin Duggan | Feb 7, 2023 | No Comments

The head of the restive Council said lawmakers are struggling to account for the needs of restaurant owners as well as the differing needs of the many diverse neighborhoods of the city, Adams said at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

Tuesday’s Headlines: That’s Why We Called it ‘Snoozeday’

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Feb 7, 2023 | No Comments

Newsday published a pro-driver take on a promising school bus camera program that was a particularly egregious example of a bunch of suburban editors reflexively siding with whining, entitled drivers over kids. Plus other news.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces a "road diet" for Delancey Street but doesn't know what it is. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Announces a Delancey Street ‘Road Diet’ … But Doesn’t Know What It Is

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 7, 2023 | No Comments

Sen. Kristen Gillibrand on Monday joined fellow federal, state, and local pols to announce an $18-million federal grant to redesign dangerous Delancey Street with accessibility upgrades, a separated bike lane, and a road diet — but New York's two-term senator didn’t know what a road diet is.

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Opinion: Parking Garages Are Pointless!

By Kevin J. Krizek | Feb 7, 2023 | No Comments

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better. But we see signs that that’s finally starting to change.

MTA Chair Janno Lieber said a fare hike could be avoided if the state adds $350 million a year in funding. File photo: Marc A. Hermann/MTA

MTA Could Nix Fare Hikes with Just $350M More Per Year, Lieber Says

By Kevin Duggan | Feb 6, 2023 | No Comments

The MTA could avert plans to hike subway and bus fares to nearly $3 if lawmakers come up with another $350 million in annual funding, its chairperson and CEO Janno Lieber said Monday.

London calling — congestion pricing is working.

Latest Data Show (Again!) That London’s Congestion Pricing is Working

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 6, 2023 | No Comments

Friday, Feb. 17 will mark two decades since London inaugurated congestion charging — and the latest data continue to show that it's been an unqualified success.

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Biden’s First ‘Mega Grants’ Contain Some Mega Wins — And Mega Fails

By Kea Wilson | Feb 6, 2023 | No Comments

A new federal "mega-grant" program will fund major safety and transit projects that have been at the top of sustainable transportation advocates' wishlists for years ... along with business-as-usual highway expansion projects that could negate those mega-gains.

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