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Thursday’s Headlines: Car Culture Myth-Making Edition

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Uber: We Do Support Congestion Pricing, But With One Caveat

Jesse Coburn was an investigative reporter at Streetsblog from 2021 to 2024. His <a href="https://www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-index">series</a> on the black market for temporary license plates led to enacted or proposed laws in three states and won the George Polk Award. The series was also a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. His work has also received awards from IRE, the Overseas Press Club Foundation, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Deadline Club, the Sigma Awards, and the Silurians Press Club. Coburn now works at ProPublica.

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New Year, Same Dangers: Mayor Adams Has Made Only a Tiny Fraction of School Streets Safer

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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Julianne Cuba

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Donovan Richards

Long-Ignored Far Rockaway Speedway Finally Getting Safety Redesign 

Christopher Robbins

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Congestion Pricing

Uber Puts Its Thumb On The Congestion Pricing Scales

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Fare evasion

ANALYSIS: $50 Million Is Just The Tip of the MTA’s Toll Evasion Iceberg

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NYPD Cop Left Creepy Voicemail for 311 User After Illegal Parking Complaint, CCRB Finds

Two images. One on the left shows Mayor Eric Adams swinging a sledgehammer to knock down an outdoor dining structure in Koreatown last week. On the right, that same spot is now street parking, where three cars, including a huge Cadillac Escalade, sit where the outdoor dining once was.

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NYC Transforms Site of Award-Winning Outdoor Dining Space Into Street Parking

Kea Wilson has more than a dozen years of experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She previously worked at Strong Towns, and currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Kea can be reached at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea</a>.

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NYPD To Brooklyn Man: Your 311 Illegal Parking Complaints Are ‘Wasting Our Time’