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Op-Ed: Why Decarceration Must Be a Part of Transportation Reform
Transit agencies can move from a policing model that seeks to detain, arrest, and imprison people to a system that carefully considers accessibility, affordability, mental health, public health, reentry, safety, and healing. Here's how.
June 16, 2022
Report: Cross-Hudson Transit Trips Will Hit New Highs No Matter What Awful Future Awaits
No matter what the variables between now and 2070, transit ridership in the cross-Hudson tunnels between New York and New Jersey will wind up outdoing the ridership figures from before the pandemic.
June 16, 2022
Zone of Hope? DOT to Undertake Tiny Canal Street Improvements
It's one small step for steppers and, perhaps, a slightly less small leap for humankind.
June 15, 2022
THE ASK: Riders Alliance Wants City, State To Attack ‘Root Causes’ of Transit Ills
June 12, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: Hanging Out on the Stoop Edition
Here's a better use for metal than cars and guns — stylish street furniture! Plus other news.
June 9, 2022
New York City’s Slowest-in-the-Nation Buses are a Poster Child for Failure
June 7, 2022
Proposed New LIRR Service to Brooklyn Relies on Dreaded Platform F
Trains to and from Brooklyn will mostly work as shuttles between Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica, arriving and leaving at a designated platform on the southernmost side of the Jamaica hub. Damn.
June 6, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: ‘City of Yes’ Edition
The mayor hints that he might get rid of outdated parking mandates. Plus other news.
June 2, 2022
Will ‘Autonomous’ Buses Force Drivers Out of a Job — Or Make Them More Important Than Ever?
Automated vehicle technology could improve labor conditions for bus drivers while improving safety and service for transit passengers and city-dwellers alike — but only if regulators act now, a new analysis argues.
June 1, 2022
MTA Promises to Do Better on Bike and Pedestrian Access — And Needs Your Help
It's no longer a bridge too far.
May 27, 2022
