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All We’ve Lost: Congestion Pricing Should Have Started June 30

Let's take stock of what we've lost because the MTA's central business district cameras are not tolling drivers.

June 30, 2024

DOT Begins Slow Process of Lowering Speed Limits on a Small Number of Streets

By the end of 2025, 250 roadway segments, mostly one or two blocks, will get reduced speeds, the agency said.

June 27, 2024

Opinion: Gov. Hochul’s ‘Pause’ Betrays A Great Leader … And His Legacy of Fiscal Prudence

Dick Ravitch fought for sensible fiscal policy to ensure the MTA was on strong financial footing. Gov. Hochul forgot his lessons.

June 26, 2024

City Wants To Keep ‘Jaywalking’ Illegal For Pedestrians’ Own Good

In the City that Always Jaywalks, officials want to keep ticketing people for it.

June 26, 2024

MTA Board To Vote To Pause Congestion Pricing Until Hochul Says So

The MTA Board will vote on Wednesday to confirm Gridlock Gov. Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause of on a long-accepted method of funding the regional transit system.

June 25, 2024

Brooklyn Pol: NYPD’s Enforcement of ‘Jaywalking’ is a ‘Racial Injustice’

The NYPD is "unfairly targeting Black and Hispanic individuals," says a Brooklyn Council member, who wants to change that.

June 25, 2024

Hey, Gov. Hochul, Here’s How Congestion Pricing Would Have Remade Manhattan

Just in time for Sunday night's failed launch of congestion pricing, check out this Streetfilms video from Stockholm.

June 24, 2024

The Brake Podcast: The Real Reason Why Traffic Engineers Design Deadly Roads

Hint: they aren't deliberately trying to get us killed.

June 23, 2024

Federal Judge Sets Aside a Key Congestion Pricing Lawsuit

Gov. Hochul's rationale for killing congestion pricing took another blow on Thursday as a federal judge dismissed one of the major lawsuits against it.

June 21, 2024

There Is A Pedestrian Injury and Death Crisis Going On

So far this year, 55 pedestrians have been killed and more than 4,000 injured. That's a health crisis.

June 20, 2024