Gersh Kuntzman

Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working

As you may have noticed, one of my obsessions is how car culture has so deeply saturated American popular culture that most people don't even notice they're drowning in it. (I suppose that's what "culture" means — the unquestioning acceptance of stuff because "it's always been that way.") After all, no American alive can recall the days when our cities were not choked by cars, so it's completely natural to not think about how we could all be living different, better, car-free lives.

"The party left me," Eric Adams told Tucker Carlson about the Democrats. Plus other news.

There were a few references to some cherished livable streets issues in the 47th president's inaugural speech.

We are taking today off to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and watch a congestion pricing foe become president.

The former federal transit official, who had a second career as one of the most prolific writers of letters to the editors of scores of area newspapers, died on Thursday.

The mayor is going down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump, eh? Plus other news.

"It would be contrary to notions of basic fairness to reward a powerful special interest with a $22 million handout," Reinvent Albany said.

Why is Vanessa Gibson's driver such a leadfoot? Plus other news.

The "wheel behind the wheelchair" has died.