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OPINION: Raise the Gas Tax? Yes, but Fix Transportation Spending First
We can’t keep pumping new money into a broken system and expect a different result.
June 1, 2021
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
May 26, 2021
People to Feds: Design Streets Better!
A proposed revision of the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways generated unprecedented public interest.
May 24, 2021
OPINION: The Time To Cap the Cross Bronx Is Now
President Biden's infrastructure bill creates an opening for rectifying a deadly historical wrong.
April 23, 2021
LaGuardia AirTrain Documents Raise Questions About Parking, Development
The Port Authority hasn't disclosed enough about ancillary plans around its AirTrain project, critics say.
April 21, 2021
Stringer Sends Secretary Pete a Laundry List of Local Infrastructure Needs
He's not mayor yet, but Scott Stringer still has a to-do list for the federal government to help upgrade the city's infrasturcutre.
April 16, 2021
What Is The MTA Assessing In Its Congestion Pricing Environmental Assessment?
The goal of the next step in the approval of congestion pricing is to get a FONSI ("Ayyyyyy").
April 13, 2021
DOT Won’t Say — And Mayor Doesn’t Know — When the Queens Boulevard Bike Lane Will Be Finished
The long-stalled project was first supposed to be done in the summer of 2018. What's going on?
April 6, 2021
This Is Happening: Feds Let MTA Do Simpler Environmental Review of Congestion Pricing
The Era of No Malarkey has come to New York public transportation.
March 30, 2021
Cuomo’s ‘Wrong Way AirTrain’ Boondoggle Moves Ahead
The LaGuardia AirTrain gets a shot in the arm — but is it (and the governor) still relevant?
March 16, 2021