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Schumer’s Massive $73B Bill Would Finally Boost E-Buses

By Kea Wilson | May 6, 2021 | No Comments

A new bill by our senior Senator would give (almost) the same amount of funding to transit agencies to electrify nation’s bus fleet as President Biden promised to private drivers to electrify their cars.

A Round and a Roundy: Fighting Over Crumbs

By Streetsblog | May 5, 2021 | No Comments

Car drivers are selfish. Pedestrians and cyclists are fighting over crumbs. Our roads are unsafe.

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OPINION: What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?

By Streetsblog | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.

Biking on the so-called dead end path below the Hudson River Greenway south of Dyckman Street. A more than mile long section of the Hudson River Greenway will be closed for repairs starting at the end of the year. Connecting the dead-end path to the Little Red Lighthouse below the GWB could provide an alternative route, activists say. Photo: Eve Kessler

Manhattan Panel Backs Henry Hudson Parkway Bike Lane

By Eve Kessler | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Getting to the Empire State Trail from the Hudson River Greenway is quite the climb! Could a bike lane be the answer — and to a greenway closure, too?

A Revel Tesla — is this really happening? Photo: Revel

Revel Seeks to Create All-Electric Taxi Fleet — But City Says ‘Not So Fast’

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Revel wants to take things to the next level — but the city says no.

OPINION: Stop the Shameful Treatment of Deliveristas

By Shabazz Stuart | Apr 27, 2021 | No Comments

These largely immigrant strivers occupy a crucial economic niche. They deserve safety, fairness, dignity and recognition.

A Round and a Roundy: Bullies Are Destroying Sleepy de Blasio’s Open Streets ‘Program’

By Streetsblog | Apr 27, 2021 | No Comments

Our national treasure cartoonist knows what's going on with the city's open streets program: the mayor is not only asleep at the switch, but he's also turned his back to the real problem.

THAT’S RICH: The Wealthy are Mostly Benefitting from State’s E-Car Rebate

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 26, 2021 | No Comments

Are we encouraging the switch to electric cars — or just encouraging the rich to switch to electric cars?

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OPINION: Envisioning a Federal Program to Increase Transit Service

By Steven Higashide and Ben Fried | Apr 25, 2021 | No Comments

It took the clarifying urgency of a severe pandemic to make transit service a national funding priority. But we need to do more, argues two advocates at TransitCenter.

So ugly and deadly it has inspired hip-hop songs: the Cross Bronx Expressway. Momentum is building to cap parts of the disastrous road with parks. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

OPINION: The Time To Cap the Cross Bronx Is Now

By Ed García Conde | Apr 23, 2021 | No Comments

President Biden's infrastructure bill creates an opening for rectifying a deadly historical wrong.

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