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Activists Want a Protected Bike Lane on an Unsafe Stretch of Bedford Avenue
The Department of Transportation must add a protected bike lane on the dangerous stretch of Bedford Avenue between Flushing and Flatbush avenues, a major north-south spine that spans multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn, a group of advocates led by a Black-run bike club is demanding.
March 22, 2023
Adams Administration Misses Key Street Safety Reporting Deadline
The Adams administration blew past its deadline to give a required progress update on a five-year plan to build hundreds of miles of new bike and bus lanes — heightening advocate concerns after the city failed to meet the plan's benchmarks in 2022.
February 10, 2023
Monday’s Headlines: Martin Luther King Day Special
It’s fitting that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day because the themes of the weekend were themes the great thinker dealt with repeatedly during his life: entitlement, privilege and inequity. Plus other news.
January 16, 2023
MTA’s Bike-Ped Access Study Promises Path on Triborough Bridge (And Maybe The Verrazzano)
The MTA's long-awaited Bike and Pedestrian Access study that will be released on Wednesday morning is promising that the agency is going to rework the Triborough Bridge's pedestrian path to make way for cyclists. And there's hope for the Verrazzano, too.
January 11, 2023
Fans to Mets Owner: We Don’t Want to Drive to Citi Field
New Yorkers who showed up at a "visioning session" on Saturday to discuss the future of the parking lots surrounding Citi Field put cars low on their power rankings.
January 9, 2023
Eric Adams in 2022: Big Words, Lots of Swagger, Modest Accomplishments — An Analysis
To paraphrase one of Mayor Adams's popular predecessors, how's he doin'?
December 29, 2022
Federal Funding Bill Contains $45M for New Active Transportation Program
That great news was soured slightly, though, by the very small dollar figure attached to it.
December 23, 2022
Beyond Ciclovia: Five Lessons on Sustainable Transportation from Colombia
Here's a deeply non-exhaustive list of five lessons about sustainable transportation I took home with me from a recent trip to Colombia, and why I can't wait to go back.
December 11, 2022
Opinion: Here’s Why I am Against ‘Narc Urbanism’
I believe that turning citizens against one another, even in the name of pedestrian safety, is a terrible mistake.
December 6, 2022
Council Member Alexa Aviles: DOT Needs to Do ‘Better’ with Plan for 7th and 8th Avs.
When the Department of Transportation pitched a plan last to turn two-way Seventh and Eighth avenues in Sunset Park into one-way streets, with traffic-calming measures like protected bike lanes and expanded sidewalks, there was a backlash and the agency pulled back. But now the neighborhood has new leadership — and we spoke to her!
December 5, 2022
