Auto-Free New York: Soft Cars and Transology
Remarks by Mitchell Joachim, Executive Director of Terreform
Terreform is a Manhattan-based nonprofit design collaborative concerned with ecological principles in the urban environment.
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Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
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It's been a terrible week for open streets, with a volunteer being attacked by a car owner, open streets equipment being vandalized, opponents circulating petitions ... and a mayor who remains silent.
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Injuries caused by city employees behind the wheel of their taxpayer-funded government cars cost the city close to $150 million in settlements last year — 33 percent more than they did just one year earlier, a new report shows.
SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Chicago vs. Staten Island
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Drivers Kill Two in Separate Crashes: Police
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Two people — one a Manhattan senior who was a longtime fixture at the New York Public Library, and the other a Brooklyn man who cops say was homeless — were killed in separate crashes, police said on Friday.