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Friday’s Headlines: More Agenda Items Edition
Transportation Alternatives laid out, in 85 chunky bullet points, what the next major should do. Plus other news.
November 14, 2025
Vision Zero Cities: Fund Transit — Or Lose It
Got a transit vision? Check out how several cities struggled and then rebounded.
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
October 23, 2025
Team Pedestrian Trounces Team Bus in Annual ‘Crosstown Bus Challenge’
Pedestrians beat the bus — but maybe for the last time?
August 8, 2025
SQUEEZED: Welcome to the Newly Unsafe Bedford Avenue ‘Bike Lane’
Bike riders are now endangered by parked cars and fast-moving traffic between Willoughby and Flushing avenues, as drivers revert to doing ... exactly what they had been doing.
August 6, 2025
Lower East Side Panel Joins Growing Chorus Against Tisch’s E-Bike Criminalization
Another New York neighborhood is calling for an end to the “disproportionate consequences” that e-bike users face under the NYPD’s sweeping crackdown.
July 24, 2025
Map Quest: Meet The City’s Most Dangerous Drivers (And Where They’re Preying On You)
A map of the city's most reckless drivers shows how prolific the problem of super-scofflaws is in the five boroughs.
April 16, 2025
Monday’s Headlines: Ben Furnas Edition
Ben Furnas has been announced as the new executive director of Transportation Alternatives. Plus more news.
December 9, 2024
Gale Brewer Flips on E-Bike Registration Due To ‘Nasty’ Pressure
The former Manhattan borough president says she supports banning e-bikes from parks and a state campaign to require licensing.
October 8, 2024
Prospect Perks: Activists Want City to Improve Cycling In and Around Brooklyn’s Green Heart
"Better connecting these neighborhoods to Prospect Park is a strong first step to correcting inequity," a new petition reads.
September 25, 2024
Report: Hot Bus Stops Are Overwhelmingly Concentrated in Low-Income Communities
"You're smoking hot" is definitely not a compliment to a bus rider in most low-income areas of the city.
August 12, 2024
