Gersh Kuntzman

The Times continued its skepticism about congestion pricing. Plus other news.

"They want to undo everything Biden did, regardless of the importance," said a recipient of a federal safety grant that is now frozen.

The movement for safe and livable streets was thrown into a panic by Thursday's Times story. Plus other news.

Council Member Vickie Paladino says a Streetsblog editor should be punched in the face. It's just the latest example of her espousing violence. Plus other news.

Under the first three years of Mayor Adams leadership, the number of fatalities of children from car crashes has soared, a new report shows.

The Queens Assembly Member says she'll advocate for people who have almost been hit by electric bicyclists. And what of the people who HAVE been struck by car drivers? Who advocates for them (we may know someone). Plus other news.

New York City's speed cameras are an unqualified success, but they still need to be renewed.

Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working

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.