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Anyone not supporting the elimination of parking mandates is only perpetuating our city's housing crisis, says this planning expert.

Unpaid MTA bridge and tunnel tolls may be an even bigger problem than previously understood. Plus more news.

Our bike lanes have become what social critic Ivan Illich once defined as degraded public space. Here's one possible fix.

Icy bike lanes posed hazards for New York City cyclists all week, but temperatures are finally going to get above freezing today. Plus more news.

The Chinese mega-city provides an example of great urban mobility, albeit with a side of authoritarianism.

America has a new transportation secretary – but a recent executive order appears to direct him not to perform some of the most important duties of his job.

As you may have noticed, one of my obsessions is how car culture has so deeply saturated American popular culture that most people don't even notice they're drowning in it. (I suppose that's what "culture" means — the unquestioning acceptance of stuff because "it's always been that way.") After all, no American alive can recall the days when our cities were not choked by cars, so it's completely natural to not think about how we could all be living different, better, car-free lives.

"The party left me," Eric Adams told Tucker Carlson about the Democrats. Plus other news.

There were a few references to some cherished livable streets issues in the 47th president's inaugural speech.