NYPD Keeps on Junking Up Midtown Streets With Fences and Barricades
While peer cities like London carve out more car-free space on their busiest streets for walking, NYPD is busy dropping metal fencing and concrete barriers all over Midtown, obstructing paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
December 4, 2017
Parks Dept Closes Hudson River Greenway Segment With Little Public Notice
A reader who bikes the greenway daily said there was no advance notice about the detour, which directs cyclists to a pedestrian path that's crowded with joggers and dog walkers. No signs indicate when the closure will end.
December 1, 2017
NYPD Security Theater Takes Manhattan
Obtrusive new police barriers interfering with walking and biking paths are cropping up in Midtown and elsewhere. Do you feel safer, New York?
December 1, 2017
DOT Will Try Out a New Way to Provide Secure Bike Parking
If you need to park your bike outside in New York, you never really know if all your components will be there by the time you get back. Though garages have to provide bike parking options by law, affordable secure bike parking is still in short supply. DOT is looking to change that.
November 30, 2017
RPA’s Vision for Great New York Transit Depends on Fixing a Broken Bureaucracy
The fourth regional plan calls on elected officials to modernize and expand the region's outmoded transit networks.
November 30, 2017
NYPD Tickets Cyclists Where Speeding Driver Killed 14-Year-Old Edwin Ajacalon
For the past two days, police have been ticketing cyclists on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Brooklyn's 72nd Precinct, just two blocks from where a driver killed 14-year-old Edwin Ajacalon on Saturday.
November 29, 2017
Congestion Pricing Was Unpopular in Stockholm — Until People Saw It in Action
Stockholm transportation director Jonas Eliasson has some advice for New York politicians worried about diving into congestion pricing: Just do it. Eliasson steered the implementation of congestion pricing in Stockholm in 2006. From that vantage point, he watched a skeptical public quickly embrace the policy as soon as they saw it in action.
November 28, 2017
Stringer: A 1960s-Era Bus Network Isn’t Working for New Yorkers in 2017
The MTA and city government have failed to respond to shifting travel patterns, and that helps explain why bus ridership is plummeting, according to a report from Comptroller Scott Stringer.
November 27, 2017
Delivery Workers Confront de Blasio Over E-Bike Crackdown
"I still believe Mr. de Blasio is a kind person. I hope he can work with us and listen."
November 22, 2017
CB 7 Committees Endorse Plan to Replace Car Storage With Affordable Housing
The project would demolish two garages with 675 parking spaces to make room for about 200 additional subsidized housing units.
November 22, 2017
