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Advocates: DOT’s 21st Street Redesign Caters to Drivers and Parking
DOT's plan for a dedicated curbside bus lane won't remove any parking spots, which discriminates against straphangers and pedestrians on behalf of car drivers on a deadly strip, critics said.
December 21, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: A Full Day of Exciting (Sort of!) Transportation News Edition
It was a huge day for long-overdue, underwhelming, mixed transportation news, so let's get right to it.
December 14, 2021
Eyes on the Street: The Broadway Bridge Construction is a Clusterf—k
Long-term unsafe conditions will continue on the Broadway Bridge spanning the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Inwood and Marble Hill as the city rehabs the key Harlem River crossing.
December 14, 2021
Who’s a Good Boy? Five Ways To Make Cities More Dog Friendly (Without the Car)
People who live with dogs are more likely to own cars and drive them — which is big news even without us running lots of photos of Kea Wilson's dog!
December 11, 2021
Study: Just Shifting to EVs Won’t Save Our Cities, Planet
“When we design our cities, we’ve been putting moving cars ahead of moving people,” said the head of the ITDP “It doesn’t have to be that way."
December 10, 2021
Thursday’s Headlines: Feeding at the Subway Trough Edition
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority handed its subway cops oodles of unplanned, unbudgeted overtime from 2018-20. Plus other news from yesterday.
December 9, 2021
The MTA Needs to Stop Saying it Doesn’t ‘Need’ Congestion Pricing Money: Advocates
It's a capital offense.
November 23, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: Early Thanksgiving Edition
In today's headlines, we express gratitude for some positive safe-streets developments. Plus other news.
November 23, 2021
THAT’S TWO! Jay Street Busway is Made Permanent, Just Like the (Much Better) One on 14th Street
Never let it be said he didn't do the least he could do.
November 19, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Expansion and Service in the Pandemic
At the 2021 Railvolution conference, our podcast maestro talked about transit-expansion plans and progress in several respective regions, as well as how they kept things going during the pandemic.
November 18, 2021