Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Policy

The city needs even more of these kinds of protected bike lanes, 13 groups demand in a letter to the city. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Cyclists Demand More Bike Lanes, Less Community Boards and Even Some Roads of their Own

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 18, 2019 | 9 Comments

One hundred miles of protected bike lanes in two years. No cars on some key routes for cyclists. Less engagement with community boards. And no more delays in life-saving road redesigns "for non-transportation-related political reasons." It's a start.

We can do better than tires and cones, America.

Federal Bill Seeks to Prioritize Pedestrians (Albeit A Tiny Bit More)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 11, 2019 | 16 Comments

A new federal bill would mandate that 5 percent of all federal highway funds be diverted to "Complete Streets" to hopefully stem the blood tide of pedestrian deaths in this country.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams loved the e-Citi Bike when he used it last year — but his borough is suffering from a lack of equity from the bike share system. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Here’s One Way to Fix Citi Bike So It Doesn’t Only Serve Rich People Who Already Live Near Subways

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 10, 2019 | 26 Comments

Citi Bike serves mostly rich white people. All you need to do is look at the coverage map to see that. So where should it expand next to change that dynamic?

Gov. Cuomo loves cars. Can he do what it takes to rein them in, as the new climate-change bill requires? Photo: Governor's office

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Op-Ed: To Meet New York’s New Climate Law, We’ll Have To Break the Car Culture

By Julie Tighe | Jun 25, 2019 | 45 Comments

Transportation is the number-one source of greenhouse-gas emissions in New York State, and the number-one offender is the internal-combustion engine. It will be a huge challenge, but we need to reduce the use of cars.

A DOT rendering from the second phase of the Atlantic Avenue rebuild shows bike lanes along the median. Image: DOT

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Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long

By David Herman | Jun 24, 2019 | 11 Comments

The next chapter of the Department of Transportation’s long-awaited rebuild of Atlantic Avenue — one of the city’s deadliest corridors — won’t likely start until 2021.

Mayor de Blasio needs DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg to solve his latest headache: 15 cyclists dead in a half-year. Photo: Rob Bennett for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio

Anatomy of a Resignation: Why Polly Trottenberg Quit the MTA Board

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 6, 2019 | 5 Comments

Of course Polly Trottenberg quit the MTA board — it's a fake, no-power, fig-leaf body that ultimately has no place for an intelligent, committed professional person whose own boss let her down repeatedly.

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