THE DE BLASIO LEGACY: Eight Years Of Broken Bus Policy
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Two terms in office and one big missed opportunity to end the "Tale of Two Cities" for transit.
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Year In Review 2021: Now For the Good News
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This year was not a good one for big wins. But it may go down in history as a critical turning point for our national transportation future.
Streetsies 2021: The Most Annoying Things That Didn’t Get Done
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Here's a litany of infuriating delays, epic fails, and mind-bending inaction on the part of every level of government — some of which could kill people! Which agency gets the most blame?
National Year In Review 2021: First, the Bad News…
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It's time for our year-in-review. Let's get the bad news out of the way first.
Editorial: The Streetsie Award for The Most Objectionable Things de Blasio Said this Year
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The Streetsie for "Worst" or "Least Intelligent" or simply the "Most Ill-Informed Thing Mayor de Blasio Said This Year" is one of our most challenging awards year in and year out. But we have five primo nominees for you.
USDOT Wants States To Spend Infrastructure Funds Sustainably
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The feds are pushing states to spend infrastructure funds on projects that will help end the climate and roadway death crises.
NYPD Bombshell: New ‘All Agency’ Policy on Placard Abuse Coming Soon
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The dying de Blasio administration will apparently make one last effort to curb illegal use of parking certificates.
Op-Ed: Bike Booms Come and Go, So Mayor Adams Must Make Transformative Change
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Gotham's incoming chief executive is inheriting the city's longest-running cycling boom. Will he seize the moment?
Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing
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And as the bike shortages of the Covid-19 pandemic recently revealed, the absence of a robust domestic bike industry can itself become a barrier to getting Americans riding.
A Round and a Roundy: Dead Men Tell No Tales … in Support of Bike Lanes
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Our national treasure cartoonist has noticed that whenever a group of people in a neighborhood expresses support for a bike lane, there's always a revanchist force that claims to have "asked around" and discovered that no one, in fact, wants that bike lane. Here's his take.
Eyes on the Street: The Broadway Bridge Construction is a Clusterf—k
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Long-term unsafe conditions will continue on the Broadway Bridge spanning the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Inwood and Marble Hill as the city rehabs the key Harlem River crossing.
Who’s a Good Boy? Five Ways To Make Cities More Dog Friendly (Without the Car)
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People who live with dogs are more likely to own cars and drive them — which is big news even without us running lots of photos of Kea Wilson's dog!