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Op-Ed: For a Safe, Healthy City, We Need an Auto-Free Zone in Manhattan
COVID-19 underscores that closing streets to traffic and enhancing amenities in the crowded core will be vital to the survival of urban America.
April 1, 2020
Op-Ed: Let’s Build a Network of ‘Quiet Streets’
COVID19 demonstrates the need for more space for people — like this gorgeous rendering above.
March 30, 2020
Komanoff: De Blasio — Even Now — Is MIA on Breaking the Car Culture
The mayor's actions and utterances show again and again that he lives inside a "windshield world."
March 25, 2020
Colon to Not-Quite-New Cyclists: It’s Time For You To Get Radicalized
Errol Louis is obviously the wrong target of cyclists' rage.
March 25, 2020
Op-Ed: One Small Step for Street Safety, One Giant Leap for Human Dignity
As New Yorkers stay home, it helps vulnerable road users to have a few extra seconds to cross a really wide, dangerous Queens street.
March 24, 2020
Op-Ed: The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit
How to avoid the mistakes that make the East Side line, the most costly subway extension ever built.
March 9, 2020
Op-Ed: How Uber Could Get Its Drivers Out of the Bike Lanes
Operators driving for the for-hire behemoth break traffic laws with abandon — compromising our safety. But Uber could use its data to police them.
February 24, 2020
Dear Diary: How I Caught My First Idler
Citizens get 25 percent of idling fines if they report the violators to the city. But it's not so easy. Here's how I became a one-woman enforcement team.
February 11, 2020
Op-Ed: Where Do We Put All Those Dockless E-Scooters?
Something's gotta give: Charging stations offer a solution to the clutter and danger posed by untethered micromobility devices.
February 4, 2020
Op-Ed: The Queens Bus-Network Redesign May Hurt Transit Deserts
The MTA plan would strand Eastern Queens residents and send them back to their cars. But better, cheaper LIRR access could be a game changer.
January 27, 2020
