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Air Quality

Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Lessons from Britain’s ‘School Streets’

Elizabeth Goldstein

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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How To Manage a City of Eight Million

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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: New York Needs SUV Ratings — Now

Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/julcuba?lang=en">@julcuba</a>. Email Julianne at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

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Bike Lanes

BAD COP, BAD COP: NYPD Threatens Tipster for Filing 311 Complaints About Illegal Parking 

Jenny O’Connell

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Car-Free Streets

Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Cheap, Rapid, and in Our Control

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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How Berkeley Is De-Policing Traffic Enforcement

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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: The Myth of the Demon Biker

Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He&#8217;s also the writer and producer of &#8220;Murder at the Food Coop,&#8221; which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/special-features/cycle-of-rage">archived here</a>.

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Gersh Kuntzman

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DOT’s ‘Vision Zero Partner’ Dermot Shea is More Afraid of Bikes Than Cars — Despite His Own Agency’s Data

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Bicycle Infrastructure

NYPD’s Fourth of July Vision Zero Plan Includes Targeting Cyclists For Riding on the Sidewalk 

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CARNAGE CONTINUES: Bloody Year on NYC Streets on Pace for Worst Ever Under ‘Vision Zero’ De Blasio

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