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Why Won’t Pols Give Up Driving for Just a Week — Even When Asked Nicely?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

Such "challenges" generate a flurry of local news coverage ... but not a lot of participation. No wonder most lawmakers have the "windshield perspective."

Uber is partnering with e-bike company Zoomo and the Equitable Commute Project to fund two e-bike trade-in programs.

Is The Solution to Deadly Lithium-Ion Battery Fires a Trade-In Program?

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 22, 2023 | No Comments

Advocates and experts are calling for a "battery buy-back" program modeled on successful efforts to reduce guns.

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The French Understand the Roadway Danger of Toxic Masculinity

By Kea Wilson | Feb 17, 2023 | No Comments

A new French safety campaign is warning parents that they may play a far bigger role in preventing car crashes than they might think.

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Overlap of Public Transit and Homelessness

By Jeff Wood | Feb 17, 2023 | No Comments

Here's a very good conversation about the need for more federal agency coordination among transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.

Mayor Adams isn't keen on Gov. Hochul asking for $500 million to close the MTA's budget gap. Photos: Kevin Duggan/Dave Colon

Adams To Albany: Someone Fund The MTA; Albany To Adams: Someone Fund The MTA

By Dave Colon and Kevin Duggan | Feb 16, 2023 | No Comments

The fight to fill the MTA's fiscal hole is entering the dreaded Punt Zone, where elected officials from the governor and the State Legislature to the mayor all unite to say someone else has got to solve their problem.

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Inside How — and Why — Insurance Companies Sell Policies to the Most Dangerous Drivers

By Kea Wilson | Feb 16, 2023 | No Comments

When drivers are too dangerous to buy traditional insurance, states often require insurance companies to sell it to them anyway at steep cost. Is that a good thing for safety?

The new on-ramp to the George Washington Bridge's northern bike and pedestrian lane. Photo: Kevin Duggan

EXCLU: George Washington Bridge Northern Path Reopens With Wider Entrance

By Kevin Duggan | Feb 14, 2023 | No Comments

The long-shuttered pedestrian and bike path on the north side of the George Washington Bridge has reopened with brand new entrances on both ends of the 92-year-old span connecting upper Manhattan and New Jersey.

The new ramps on the north side of the George Washington Bridge are great. But the bike path itself is too narrow. Photo: Kevin Duggan

Opinion: The George Washington Bridge’s Revamped Bike-Ped Paths are Not Enough

By Neile Weissman | Feb 14, 2023 | No Comments

The Port Authority could have widened the narrow shared paths on the George Washington Bridge as part of its $1.9-billion program to “Restore the George.” It didn't, even as biking boomed.

Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 13, 2023 | No Comments

The problem of cars evading speed, red-light and bus-lane cameras with defaced or covered plates has gotten markedly worse — with more than 7 percent of plates that triggered automated enforcement cameras last summer proving to be unreadable.

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Opinion: It’s Time to Rethink One-Hour Deliveries

By Hazel O'Neil | Feb 12, 2023 | No Comments

All that ultra-fast delivery, though, comes at a high cost in carbon emissions, traffic congestion, labor, and more. And those negative outcomes have to date gone largely unregulated.

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‘Every Infrastructure Choice is a Safety Choice’: Secretary Pete Wants Mayors To End Traffic Deaths

By Leah Shahum | Feb 9, 2023 | No Comments

The U.S. Secretary of Transportation said “maybe the most acute and devastating problem in our entire transportation system … is roadway deaths in America.” Here are a few highlights from his recent speech.

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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.

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