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Monday’s Headlines: What to Tell Your Car- and Times-Loving Friends Edition
Our old man editor has an editorial about your friends who both revere the Times and the coming electric car revolution. Plus all the rest of the weekend's news.
March 14, 2022
CYCLE OF RAGE: Delivery Cyclist Who Had Been Left for Dead Needs Your Help
This city can break your heart. Can it mend it, too? Let's see.
February 4, 2022
DOT: Cars Cars Cars Cars Car Cars Cars Carscars (Of Course, Cars Cars)
Cars cars cars cars cars — because cars cars cars with cars in cars driving with cars.
December 31, 2021
GRIPE SESSION: Departing Council Member Cumbo Gives Parting Gift to Car Owners
"The issue is also about parking," said Cumbo, one of many elected officials in this low-lying coastal city that fail to connect the dots between excessive driving and global climate change.
December 7, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: Supposedly Progressive Assembly Member in Queens Wants More Cars in Her District
She's proud ... of making climate change worse.
August 31, 2021
311 is a Joke: DOT Is Perfectly OK With a Blocked Bike Lane in Downtown Brooklyn
Here's another angry screed by our editor about a one-block bike lane in Brooklyn that is illegally blocked by construction workers ... and the DOT doesn't care.
July 13, 2021
UNCIVIL WAR! Parking-Obsessed Opponents of Health, Safety and Parks Berate DOT Officials for an Hour
Is this what democracy looks like? If so, can we try another system?
May 13, 2021
ANALYSIS: Mayor de Blasio Has Abandoned the Open Streets ‘Program’
It's been a terrible week for open streets, with a volunteer being attacked by a car owner, open streets equipment being vandalized, opponents circulating petitions ... and a mayor who remains silent.
April 12, 2021
CASE CLOSED: 311 Is A Joke — Sanitation Department Edition
The case is closed — but the junked bike remains.
February 25, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: What is Going On? Who’s In Charge? Why Are the Bike Lanes STILL A Mess 12 Days After a Storm?
I guess I'm tired of having to reach out to multiple agencies — Sanitation, DOT, Parks, the MTA, the NYPD, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Buildings — every time it snows to find out who's in charge.
February 14, 2021