NO TRICK, ALL TREAT: City to Ban Cars on Some Streets for Halloween
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A good safety announcement in Queens comes amid rabid heckling from the pro-car minority.
EXCLUSIVE: MTA To Start Reopening Subway Bathrooms Early Next Year
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The pandemic is over, so relief is on the way.
Monday’s Headlines: A Halloween Treat Edition
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This is all treat, no trick. The Department of Transportation will keep cars away from kids on Halloween. Plus other news.
Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go
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Queens is getting its crap together.
Opinion: Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?
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We can’t keep using the places that poor people live in as highways for wealthier people to move through quickly.
Talking Headways Podcast: Saying ‘Yes’ to the City
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How 'millennials' are battling 'boomers' in order to change the politics of urban housing policy.
Cycling Through COVID-19: Austin, Portland and Washington, D.C.
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These three U.S. cities took very different approaches to taking care of their cyclists during COVID-19. Find out who lowered speed limits, who expedited bike lane construction, and more.
Job Opening of the Day: Director of Open Restaurants at DOT (Wait, at DOT?!)
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Well, at least one agency thinks it's going to be running the Open Restaurant program.
Friday’s Headlines: A Big DOT Day Edition
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Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez began the day by cutting the ribbon on the new bike lane on Bronxdale Avenue (and scootering on it), but there was lots more news all day long.
EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA Backs Down From Banning E-Bikes on its Property
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This controversy has been extinguished.
Vision Zero Cities: Why Everyone Hates Cyclists: Realistic Group Conflict Theory and the Plight of Cyclists
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There is a word that often has the same effect in comment threads on social media as a bucket of chum in a shark tank: cyclist. Why?
One Down, Thousands to Go: Cops Bust A Really Bad Driver For Doing Less-Dangerous Stupid Thing
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Police in Bay Ridge collared a reckless driver who was, in the words of the local Council member, "driving like an asshole" and doing donuts on Shore Road — but the seizure of the car only reveals the weakness in the larger system of getting dangerous drivers off the road.