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Missing in action on congestion pricing: Daniel O'Donnell, Richard Gottfried, Yuh-Line Niou, and Deborah Glick.

The Manhattan Assembly Members Who Were MIA on Congestion Pricing

By David Meyer | Apr 16, 2018 | 4 Comments

The failure to enact congestion pricing was a setback for the whole city, but no borough got a worse deal than Manhattan. And yet, as this deal was being negotiated, Manhattan elected officials didn't make a peep.

Anti-transit NIMBYs protesting better B82 bus service take a moment to wish Council Member Mark Treyger a happy birthday. Photo: @KalmanYeger

Will DOT and the MTA Prioritize Parking Over Tens of Thousands of B82 Riders?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 16, 2018 | 2 Comments

It looks like the MTA and DOT are altering the plan for B82 Select Bus Service to appease electeds who don't want room for bus riders on Kings Highway.

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“Life Is Sacred” — How Bogotá Reduced Road Deaths and Homicides Together

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 16, 2018

The city's traffic fatality rate declined by roughly 50 percent between 1996 and 2006. Key to that result was an initiative to address traffic deaths and homicides in tandem.

Today’s Headlines

By Ben Fried | Apr 16, 2018 | 50 Comments

World’s Most Expensive Commuter Rail Project Keeps Getting More Expensive (AMNY)
Caving to Marty Golden, Bill Colton, and Company, MTA Delays B82 Select Bus Service (KCP)
Drunk Driver Careens Onto Flatbush Ave Sidewalk, Injuring Several (News, NY1)
Andy Byford Cares About Subway Accessibility, But Does the Rest of the MTA? (AMNY)
Chronically Glitchy Subway Signals at Bergen Street Are Just 12 Years Old (NYT)
Penn Station’s New $300 Million Concourse Already Leaking (Post)
Uh Oh — NYC’s High Construction Costs Feeding the Cult of Elon Musk (Politico)
DOT Will Transform Dangerous Lindenwood Intersection Into a Roundabout (QChron)
Freshman Council Member Mark Gjonaj, Parking Revanchist (Crain’s)
Queens CB4 Leaps to Defend Parking Habits of Placard Holding District Manager Christian Cassagnol (QChron)
Traffic Laws Don’t Apply to Keith Hernandez on His 80 MPH Commute Home to Suffolk (News)

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DOT plans to add a five-foot protected bike lane with a two-foot buffer on most blocks of 26th and 29th streets. Image: DOT

Protected Bike Lanes for 26th Street and 29th Street Are Home Free

By David Meyer | Apr 13, 2018 | 2 Comments

Manhattan Community Board 5 endorsed DOT's plan for crosstown protected bike lanes on 26th Street and 29th Street last night by a vote of 30 to 6. DOT has said installation will likely begin in "late spring."

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Parking Madness Final Four: Hicksville vs. Nashville

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 13, 2018

Soon you'll be able put the sad parade of lifeless asphalt deserts behind you, but not quite yet.

One year ago today: Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, podium, and CB 2 Chair Denise Keehan-Smith, to the right, called for protected bike lanes alongside Flor Jimenez, whose partner Gelacio Reyes was killed by a driver as he biked on 43rd Avenue 12 days earlier. Photo: David Meyer

Jimmy Van Bramer Called for a Protected Bike Lane on 43rd Avenue a Year Ago Today. Now He’s Undecided.

By David Meyer | Apr 13, 2018 | 42 Comments

Queens Community Board 2 Chair Denise Keehan-Smith has also flip-flopped, saying she doesn't want protected bike lanes on 43rd and Skillman.

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A New Approach to Retrofitting a Dangerous Suburban Road

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 13, 2018

The Syracuse suburb of Dewitt is overhauling its wide, dangerous traffic artery -- and putting bikes at the center.

Today’s Headlines

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2018 | 17 Comments

Cuomo’s Not About to Stop Extorting Straphangers (Gotham Gazette)
NYPD Halts Subway for 90 Minutes to Investigate Pepper-Spraying (AMNY; News; Post 1, 2)
… And That Was Just One Factor in Yesterday’s Morning Meltdown (Voice)
Extra Extra: Andrew Cuomo Is Responsible for the Subway (News)
Liz Krueger: Albany’s Gotta Finish the Job and Get Congestion Pricing Done (Crain’s)
LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski Is Out (WNYC); Phil Eng In (Post)
More on the L Train Bike Train From NY1 and PIX
Seasonal Police Crackdowns on Reckless Driving: Not Vision Zero! (NY1)
NYPD Releases Video of Dorothy Parker’s Hit-and-Run Killer (AMNY)
How Will Jeff Klein Legislate Without His Publicly Funded SUV? (Post)
When the Post Comes Out Against It, You Know It’s the Right Thing to Do (1, 2)

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Streetfilms: Hop on the L Train Bike Train

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2018 | 6 Comments

“The city needs to make sure that everything they can do to let us get to Manhattan safely gets done,” said Council Member Antonio Reynoso.

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Parking Madness Final Four: Lansing vs Philadelphia

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 12, 2018

Which deserves to go to the parking crater championship? The state capitol asphalt acreage or the sports complex mega-lot?

To Bill Colton, setting aside street space for faster, more reliable bus service is "anti-women." Photo: DOT

Apparently, Assembly Member Bill Colton Thinks Women Don’t Ride Buses

By David Meyer | Apr 12, 2018 | 9 Comments

Bus lanes are "anti-women," Colton says, oblivious to the fact that most bus commuters in Brooklyn are women.

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