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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a ceremony where NASA transferred title and ownership of space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at the museum in New York City. The transfer is the first step toward Intrepid receiving Enterprise in the spring of 2012. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong

By Aaron Short | Oct 25, 2019 | No Comments

Message to the senior senator from New York: Electric cars are still cars — and they still suck.

NYPD Transportation Bureau Chief Thomas Chan was ill prepared during and after a Council hearing on Thursday. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

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The Lameness of Chief Thomas Chan

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 25, 2019 | No Comments

The top-ranking transportation official in the police department — again — defended the agency's anti-cycling agenda.

The city wants to add a bike lane along Broadway from City Hall to Bowling Green, shown in purple: Source: DOT

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Broadway Bike Lane Connecting City Hall and Bowling Green Could Be Coming Soon

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 25, 2019 | No Comments

If taking out a main source of traffic for cars in the Financial District works like it did with the so-called "Miracle on 14th Street," then leaders of the neighborhood civic group are all for it.

Drivers often give cyclists far less than three feet of passing distance. This is Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn every day. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

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DOT and NYPD: Force Drivers To Give Cyclists More Space

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 24, 2019 | No Comments

"The current safe passing law...is vague, and so DOT supports a clearer requirement," Commissioner Polly Trottenberg testified on Thursday.

Drivers will complain — to the New York Times and CBS2 — but they are not inconvenienced by the city's "Green Wave" light timing on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

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The ‘Green Wave’ is a Ripple — But Trottenberg Battles Car Entitlement

By Dave Colon | Oct 23, 2019 | No Comments

City officials hyped their latest effort to help city cyclists on Wednesday.

MTA New York City Transit President Andy Byford, Acting Senior Vice President of Buses Craig Cipriano, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and elected officials announce the Bronx Bus Redesign at Lou Gehrig Plaza. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit

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Bronx Bus Redesign Spaces Out Stops, Beefs Up Crosstown Service

By Dave Colon | Oct 23, 2019 | No Comments

The MTA's plan for a redesigned Bronx bus network increases the distance between stops; adds all-door boarding across the system; plus adds frequency on three crosstown routes, a must-have for a borough with no crosstown subway lines.

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Report: Drivers Get More Protection — The Rest of Us Get Slaughtered

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 22, 2019 | No Comments

Fatal car crashes are down for the second straight year across the nation — but the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists are up again, further evidence that cars are getting safer only for people inside the vehicle.