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Jessica Tisch

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Department of Sanitation

DSNY Boss: Commercial Waste Reform is Worth Doing — But the Right Way

Jon Orcutt

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Brooklyn

OPINION: Mayor Adams Has Leverage to Force a Reluctant State DOT to Budge on the BQE

Christopher Brimer

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Bicycling

Opinion: The Driver Who Killed My Husband is Going on Trial; I Don’t Expect Much

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Bicycle Infrastructure

Opinion: The George Washington Bridge’s Revamped Bike-Ped Paths are Not Enough

Doug Gordon

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Carnage

Opinion: Debunking the Lies of Vickie Paladino is Crucial to Understanding the Bikelash

Charles Komanoff is a national expert on congestion pricing and traffic modeling, and is the former head of Transportation Alternatives. He is a longtime Streetsblog contributor. Reach him at <a href="mailto:komanoff@gmail.com">komanoff@gmail.com</a>.

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Charles Komanoff

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Congestion

Latest Data Show (Again!) That London’s Congestion Pricing is Working

Stephen Graham

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Highways to Hell: Now Mayor Adams Needs to Advocate for Speed Cameras on Expressways

Dave Snyder

Sharrow

Big Admission: ‘I Was Wrong About Sharrows’

Chelsea Dowell is communications director at Open Plans.

Chelsea Dowell

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Eric Adams

What the Livable Streets Movement Wants from Thursday’s State of the City Address

Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He&#8217;s also the writer and producer of &#8220;Murder at the Food Coop,&#8221; which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/special-features/cycle-of-rage">archived here</a>.