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Tunnel Vision! MTA Abandons Flawed Plan To Run IBX Partly on Street
The MTA no longer plans to hijack its future Brooklyn-to-Queens light rail project with a segment of it on the street.
October 30, 2024
Private Trash Haulers Are Still Killing and Injuring New Yorkers As Long-Awaited Reforms Lag
Private carters wreak as much deadly havoc on the streets as they did five years ago as city reforms haven't kicked in yet.
October 30, 2024
DOT’s Upper West Side ‘Smart Curbs’ Struggles to Claw Back Free Parking
One local advocate said the whole point of the pilot was to test the idea of charging for valuable curb space on a large scale. So what happened?
October 29, 2024
Industrial Business Wins Pause of Safety Project in Blissville
"I’m just worried about where my employees are going to park," says the business owner who sued the city to stop a bike lane.
October 29, 2024
Study Exposes NYPD’s ‘Systemic Failure’ To Enforce Safety-Related Parking Violations
A study of NYPD responses to 311 complaints found "inconsistent, and in some cases non-existent" enforcement of safety-related parking rules.
October 29, 2024
Happy Birthday, Subway! Challenges and Opportunities as the System Turns 120
New York can’t survive without transit and transit can’t survive without investment.
October 27, 2024
‘Cutting Corners’: City Juices Stats for Intersection Safety Upgrades
The Adams administration is fudging the numbers to overstate its daylighting progress after the mayor's 2023 pledge to do 1,000 intersections per year.
October 25, 2024
Friday Video: Full Frontal NYC
Watch a trip from Main Street to Hudson Yards from the 7-operator's-eye-view. It's very Zen.
October 25, 2024
Cyclist Killed By Driver Fleeing Cops in Another High-Speed Chase
The NYPD’s latest car chase killed a cyclist in Astoria.
October 23, 2024
MTA Can’t Borrow Its Way Out Of Hochul’s Capital Plan Gaps: Comptroller
Forcing the MTA to fill its congestion pricing hole with borrowed money could mean a 16-percent fare hike down the line.
October 23, 2024
