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Bloomberg’s Infrastructure Plan: Save Lives, Boost Transit, Stop Building Roads
Would-be president Mike Bloomberg would focus mostly on maintaining roads and bridges we already have, rather than building new ones, while also investing three times more money in transit.
January 22, 2020
Op-Ed: Fix DUMBO’s Dangerous Subway Station
The fire-trap F train station at York Street desperately needs a second entrance, but the MTA has no plans to fix it.
December 3, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Fresh Hazards for Riverside Park Bike Bypass
The Parks Department is protecting pedestrians by sending cyclists up and down a steep, confusing path — and watch out for that Dumpster!
July 15, 2019
Op-Ed: The Atlantic Avenue Rebuild Is Taking Too Long
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.
June 24, 2019
Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!
When is a parking-protected bike lane — a street design pioneered in this country by our own city Department of Transportation — no longer a parking-protected bike lane?
May 30, 2019
Feds Must Fix Hudson River Tunnel Before Catastrophic Failure Cripples New York
The Regional Plan Association estimates that a failure of the tunnel would cost billions to the New York region and send home values plummeting.
February 27, 2019
Two More Reasons to Support Congestion Pricing: Safety and Transit Accessibility
The money would fund improvements to disabled transit riders while also making roadways safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
January 31, 2019
Study: Most Roads Don’t Pay for Themselves
Most American roads -- even the most highly trafficked -- are financial losers. That's a major finding from a new study by the Center for American Progress [PDF].
May 4, 2015
Letters to David Brooks: Yes to Infrastructure, No to Highways
On Friday, Times columnist David Brooks joined the chorus calling for more transportation investment, which came as something of a surprise given his conservative pedigree. But Brooks has always had a soft spot for the exurbs, and his proposed "National Mobility Project" was predictably premised on the idea that transportation projects should accommodate sprawl:
November 3, 2008
The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for Highways
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said yesterday that due to declining gas tax revenues, the Highway Trust Fund would need to borrow money from its mass transit account to pay for road projects. Today's big news story was buried at the bottom of page A17 in the New York Times:
July 29, 2008