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Thursday’s Headlines: Chewing the Fat with Marty Edition
When a guy sends you hate mail, but offers to take you to a Mets game, you listen. Plus other news.
October 21, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: Eric Adams is On a Roll Edition
The big story yesterday was that Eric Adams had grabbed the coveted (er, entirely expected) endorsement of StreetsPAC, the city's only political action committee devoted to safe streets. Plus other news.
October 20, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Cheap, Rapid, and in Our Control
How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.
October 16, 2021
Friday’s Headlines: Just the News Edition
It was a slow news days, so rather than bore you with our copious opinions, we'll cut right to the day's digest:
October 15, 2021
PLATEGATE: Out-of-State Car Owners Owe City $300M in Unpaid Fines
Owners of out-of-state cars owe the city more than a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in fines and fees on the millions of unpaid parking and moving violation tickets that Streetsblog reported on earlier in the week.
October 15, 2021
DÉJA-BLEW: City Failed to Get Another Reckless Driver Off the Road Before Crashing Into Funeral Home
Too little, too late — again.
October 14, 2021
It’s an Open Plans Grand Slam as Congestion Pricing Zone Hearings End
Open Plans, the city's newly emerging civic group devoted to livable streets issues (and, full disclosure, the parent company of Streetsblog), sent four activists to testify. Here's what they said...
October 6, 2021
Opinion: Congestion Pricing Does Not Begin to Compensate Society for the Harm and Violence Caused by Cars
Much of the coverage of congestion pricing focuses on the need for a toll to reduce congestion or pollution. And that's important. But drivers need to know that they do far more harm than merely causing traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Put simply: Cars destroy the human living environment in the city.
October 5, 2021
Study: What’s Behind Partisan Splits Over Transport Reform?
The majority of Americans support transportation reform that would reduce our national dependence on automobiles — but better messaging may be needed to persuade the rest, a new study suggests.
October 4, 2021
Open Plans Brings on Three New Hires in Fight for Livable Streets
October 4, 2021
