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This is every afternoon in New York City. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Will NYC Finally Get Garbage Out of Pedestrians’ Way?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 4, 2019 | 61 Comments

The departments of Sanitation and Transportation say they'll do something about it. But will their formal "request for expressions of interest" from community, industry and advocacy groups actually solve the problem?

A cycle for persons with mobility impairments.

Op-Ed: Breaking Down Barriers to Disabled Cyclists

By Joelle Galatan | Jun 3, 2019 | 14 Comments

Because disabled people are often left out of the conversation, few abled cyclists seem to consider how non-traditional bikes can add to mobility for disabled people and provide many with a healthy mode of exercise and transportation.

Amsterdam shows how beautiful a street can be without on-street car storage. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Streetfilms in Amsterdam: Remove Parking and Watch a City Bloom

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 3, 2019 | 21 Comments

Amsterdam's plan to remove 10,000 parking spaces will change the city for the better — and maybe point the way for New York.

With the congestion charge, more people are traveling to central London by bus, and fewer by car. Photo: Dun.can/Twitter

London’s Experience With Congestion Pricing: It’s Working!

By Bobby Cuza | May 31, 2019 | 42 Comments

London’s experience may provide some useful guideposts. But it also lays bare some of the challenges facing New York.

Happy smiling (Dutch) people riding bikes. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Streetfilms: More Incredible Bike Porn from Holland!

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 30, 2019 | 22 Comments

This is the second in Clarence Eckerson Jr.'s series of films about how the Dutch reclaimed their streets from the automobile. Today's topic: The low-lying nation's busiest bike path: The Vredenburg in Utrecht.

Ubers and yellows — always competing. Photo: Max Pixel

Komanoff: Times Exposé Understated the Damage to Yellow Cab Industry by Uber and Lyft

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 30, 2019 | 48 Comments

The New York Times’s exhaustive series about the horrifying financial plight of yellow taxicab drivers may actually have understated the fiscal crisis — and, in doing so, let Uber and Lyft off the hook, a cab industry expert told Streetsblog. In the Times series (part 1 and part 2), writer Brian Rosenthal reported, “since Uber entered […]

Scores of activists rallied at City Hall last month to argue that Mayor de Blasio has decelerated Vision Zero. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Safe Streets Advocates to Mayor: We’re Just Waiting For Your Signature

By Julianne Cuba | May 30, 2019 | 8 Comments

Mayor de Blasio is suddenly backing a street redesign bill he has long opposed. Why? He has no choice.

Cars frequently reclaim protected bike lanes — as they did on the two-way stretch of Clinton Street on the Lower East Side — between the time the DOT removes pavement and when the agency restores painted markings. Photo: Jon Orcutt

Op-Ed: Paint The Bike Lane, Dammit, Before Someone Dies!

By Jon Orcutt | May 30, 2019 | 28 Comments

When is a parking-protected bike lane — a street design pioneered in this country by our own city Department of Transportation — no longer a parking-protected bike lane? When that same DOT removes all street markings for street resurfacing, leaving cyclists who have become attuned to the city’s best on-street bike routes to fend for […]

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