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Reconnecting Communities: So Are We There Yet?
Advocates warn: to reconnect communities, you have to listen to them.
Huge Grant: Feds Send City $12M to Improve Post-Crash Analyses
Advocates have been seeking this for years: a single repository where the disparate findings from multiple agencies about road crashes will be stored and analyzed.
Federal Judge Sets Aside a Key Congestion Pricing Lawsuit
Gov. Hochul's rationale for killing congestion pricing took another blow on Thursday as a federal judge dismissed one of the major lawsuits against it.
‘Irresponsible, Destructive’: Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Flip Harms Working New Yorkers, Ritchie Torres Says
"The delay of congestion pricing is not only bad morals and bad economics, it's bad politics," Torres told Streetsblog.
Biden Administration to Let Hochul Dictate Congestion Pricing Next Steps, FHWA Says
President Biden may be providing legal cover for Gov. Hochul to avoid a lawsuit over her decision to scrub congestion pricing.
Hochul’s Bid to Stop Congestion Pricing Might Be Illegal
But she may be off the hook because the feds have still not undertaken what would have been the final bureaucratic step.
When it Comes to Federal Infrastructure Grants, Size Does Matter
Cities and municipalities with larger budgets and staff are more likely to win competitive federal infrastructure grants, the Urban Institute has found.
City: BQE Must Be Rebuilt to Last a Century … To Prevent More Pollution
Paging Mr. Orwell: Doubling down on the Robert Moses highway is actually good for neighborhoods nearby, the city claims.
US DOT Rejection of City Request for BQE ‘Enhancement’ is Good News, Advocates Say
"It's good news because it’s a bad project,” said one activist about the feds' rejection of funds to repair the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
‘Stop the Highway-Expansion Madness,’ New Coalition Demands
"Endless highway expansions are pulling our country into an environmental, budgetary, and public health crisis," the letter states.
