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Q&A: Will The Bronx’s New Council Member Take On Car Culture?
Union leader Shirley Aldebol took on Republican Kristy Marmorato and won — and now she's ready to fight for better transit and safer streets.
November 7, 2025
Scooter Use is Soaring From Bronx to Queens: Report
It's a mobility revolution that flies in the face of ongoing resistance from Queens elected officials who have called for the city-overseen program to be scraped.
December 31, 2024
Speaker Adams to City: Slow Your E-Scooter Roll
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is demanding that the city "pause" its successful e-scooter program in eastern Queens, even though thousands of people are using the scooters to get around.
October 10, 2024
Make No Mistake: The 2024 Pedestrian Death Crisis is Due to Driving
Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 23, 87 pedestrians were killed, up from 68 in the same period last year — an increase of 28 percent.
September 26, 2024
Queens Pols Have Lots of Claims About the Evils of Scooter-Share, But Few Facts
Queens elected officials rallied together to oppose e-scooters, but they are flat out wrong, DOT says.
September 17, 2024
The River Wild: Bikes and Scooters Are Ending Up Six Feet Under in The Bronx
The Bronx River Alliance has pulled 410 scooters and e-bikes out of the river since July 2023. What the hell?!
September 12, 2024
DOT: Eastern Queens E-Scooter Expansion Will Launch Next Year
The expansion follows a similar, hugely successful rollout in the Bronx, where riders have taken nearly 3 million trips since 2021.
October 13, 2023
Study: How Low-Income People Really Use Micromobility
Shared bikes and scooters are meeting low-income people's basic mobility needs — but they're not being subsidized like it.
September 22, 2023
City to Expand Scooter Share to Eastern Queens
All three of the scooter-share companies that have been providing service in The Bronx since 2021 will be part of a massive expansion of the program into transit-deprived areas of eastern Queens, the Department of Transportation announced on Thursday.
June 15, 2023
Advocates: City Must Make E-Mobility Safer and More Widespread — And Here’s How To Do It
The bike boom is now going vroom, vroom.
May 17, 2023
