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Meet Steve Fulop, Corporate New York’s New Mouthpiece
Streetsblog sat down with former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop last week to discuss his new role at the Partnership for New York City.
February 4, 2026
INTERVIEW: MTA Chair Janno Lieber Talks to Streetsblog to Mark Four Years at the Top
The MTA chairman talked with Streetsblog about his tenure, congestion pricing, bus stops, Babe Ruth and more.
January 21, 2026
‘Human Transit’ 2.0: How Mass Modes Make Us More Free
We sat down with Jarrett Walker to talk about the newly updated edition of his seminal work, and how the growth of the mobility justice movement has (and hasn’t) reshaped the conversation.
February 14, 2024
How Can Sustainable Transportation Advocates Help End Poverty? An Interview with Matthew Desmond
One in nine Americans live in poverty, and millions more live in a precarious place somewhere between precarity and true security. A new book argues that we can all play a role in challenging the systems and individual choices that "keep poor people poor" for benefit for everyone else.
April 27, 2023
Meet The New Boss: Assembly Corporations Chair Kenneth Zebrowski on His Plans For MTA Oversight
Here's our conversation with the Assembly member who just landed the plum job of overseeing the MTA!
January 13, 2023
‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy talks to Streetsblog about how why it's so important to say the right things about our national traffic crash crisis.
February 2, 2022
Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.
Licensed transportation engineers are supposed to abide by an ethical code of conduct that places the highest priority on public safety. But if you look outside at the closest street, you'll probably see the result of engineering decisions that are antithetical to protecting people's lives.
October 11, 2017
Keith Benjamin Brings a Fresh Perspective to City Streets in Charleston
After developing policies to make transportation systems more equitable at U.S. DOT under Anthony Foxx, Keith Benjamin is helming the city DOT in Charleston.
September 11, 2017
Ryan Russo on NYC’s Bike Network Progress, Community Boards, and the Evolution of DOT
Russo discusses the state of bike network development, the potential introduction of different types of safety improvements to NYC streets, and how the public process for street redesign projects might be improved.
May 9, 2017
Q&A With Ryan Russo on the Early Days of the Plaza Program and Protected Bike Lanes in NYC
Few people have been so closely involved in the transformation of the city's streets over such a long period of time as Ryan Russo. So between his last day at NYC DOT and his move to the West Coast, I caught up with him to get an insider's perspective on more than a dozen years of change to NYC streets.
May 8, 2017
