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Bowery Flowers — The Green Spark Behind NYC’s 1980s Bicycle Revival
Remembering Carl Hultberg, a great, unsung figure at the start of the livable streets movement.
September 16, 2019
Op-Ed: Bike Lane Missing? Danger Found
A group bike ride around Brooklyn shows that DOT has its work cut out for it. Here are small fixes that could keep cyclists and pedestrians alive.
August 23, 2019
Residential-Parking Permits: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
It's been tried all over the country, with some big hiccups. But parking management could succeed here. The key word is "could."
August 20, 2019
LAUGHABLE: The NYPD is the Front Line of Mayor de Blasio’s ‘Crackdown’ on Bike Lane Parkers?
Mayor de Blasio's announcement that he had ordered the NYPD to crackdown on reckless drivers and cars parked in bike lanes is being ridiculed for one key reason: NYPD officers routinely drive recklessly in their personal cars and often park in bike lanes.
July 2, 2019
SEE IT: Video Shows Bus Driver Killing Citi Bike Rider Dan Hanegby
More evidence that bus driver Dave Lewis is to blame for the crash that killed a Citi Bike rider last year.
September 20, 2018
The Cost of Cold Feet: No Cordon Toll Means Kissing Most Congestion Pricing Benefits Goodbye
Without a cordon toll, the time savings from reduced traffic congestion drops by at least 60 percent. The revenues available to improve transit drop by 60 percent or more as well.
February 22, 2018
NYC’s Still Waiting for a Traffic Reduction Plan From Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo's team seems to be serious about congestion pricing, but every time there’s a chance to commit to a concrete policy, they don’t.
February 16, 2018
What You Need to Know About the Congestion Pricing Plan From Cuomo’s Fix NYC Panel
The centerpiece is a cordon zone in Manhattan below 60th Street where drivers would pay for the use of scarce street space. Here's an overview of how it would all come together.
January 19, 2018
How to Repair a Parking Crater in Three Steps
[Before we started up the bracket for this year's Parking Madness tournament, I got in touch with Donald Shoup, who literally wrote the book on parking reform, and asked him to pick the worst parking crater in the field of 16. Here's his response, packaged with some advice for cities that have a parking crater problem. -- Angie Schmitt]
April 8, 2015
Gelinas Responds to Komanoff on Bike-Share Safety
Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas submitted this response to Charles Komanoff's critique of her weekend opinion piece in the New York Post about bike-share safety.
May 21, 2013
