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Brian Fritsch
Brian Fritsch is the Associate Director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA.
April 8, 2025
Anna Zivarts
Anna Zivarts is a visually impaired parent and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Joining the team at Disability Rights Washington in 2018, Zivarts led the Rooted in Rights storytelling project and launched the Week Without Driving challenge to address the needs of nondrivers in … Continued
April 7, 2025
Robin Graven-Milne
Robin Graven-Milne runs Bike Plant, a bicycle repair shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and is working on a memoir about getting into the bike business.
February 25, 2025
Frederick Soffa
Frederick Soffa has a Masters in Political Science and a Masters in Architecture. He has cycled, walked, driven, and transited in NYC since 1991. He currently works as a freelance videographer, and resides in Manhattan Community Board 12.
February 18, 2025
Eric Kober
Eric Kober is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Before that, he was director of housing, economic and infrastructure planning at the city Department of City Planning. He was a Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner School of Public Service and a senior research scholar at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at … Continued
January 24, 2025
Julia Lichtblau
Julia Lichtblau turned cycling-activist after seeing cars driving on the Schermerhorn Street bike lane. Formerly a journalist at BusinessWeek and Dow Jones, she writes fiction, criticism and essays in Brooklyn.
January 8, 2025
Richard Berry
Richard Berry is the manager of the London Assembly Research Unit, which recently produced the report Pedestrianising Oxford Street, on the history of Mayoral proposals for Oxford Street.
December 2, 2024
Olivia Bensimon
Olivia Bensimon is a freelance journalist in New York City who reports on human-centered stories.
November 12, 2024
Jose Corpas
Jose Corpas is a former road test examiner in Staten Island who has since switched to teaching and taught thousands of people, including celebrities, how to navigate the streets of New York City. He is also a writer covering sports and other local issues.
November 7, 2024
