Before Enrique Peñalosa took over as Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, this thriving downtown plaza was a decrepit, crime-ridden, traffic-congested slum. Peñalosa cleared out the old shacks, banned private motor vehicles, launched the Transmilenio bus service, created the plaza, and returned this public space to his city's people. Granted, the neighborhood pictured above clearly lacks the First World "vibrancy" that we boast of here in New York City, but it seems pleasant enough, no?
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The Council spent its last bus oversight hearing of its term asking the MTA and city to pull back on bus lane enforcement.
The Parks Department appears to have given in to a vocal group of Queens drivers. Paging Mayor Mamdani!
Listen to a Republican: "The Department of Transportation's negative report on daylighting is like judging the effectiveness of lifeboats on the Titanic by studying the ones that never left the ship."
Transportation Alternatives laid out, in 85 chunky bullet points, what the next major should do. Plus other news.
A parking-first City Hall has thrown up road blocks against pedestrian safety.
The outlook for active transportation won't be good if advocates don't stand up.
