Meet The New Boss: Assembly Corporations Chair Kenneth Zebrowski on His Plans For MTA Oversight
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Here's our conversation with the Assembly member who just landed the plum job of overseeing the MTA!
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‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes
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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.
Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.
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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.
Keith Benjamin Brings a Fresh Perspective to City Streets in Charleston
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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.
Ryan Russo on NYC’s Bike Network Progress, Community Boards, and the Evolution of DOT
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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.
Q&A With Ryan Russo on the Early Days of the Plaza Program and Protected Bike Lanes in NYC
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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.