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U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
May 26, 2021
What Is The MTA Assessing In Its Congestion Pricing Environmental Assessment?
The goal of the next step in the approval of congestion pricing is to get a FONSI ("Ayyyyyy").
April 13, 2021
DOT Won’t Say — And Mayor Doesn’t Know — When the Queens Boulevard Bike Lane Will Be Finished
The long-stalled project was first supposed to be done in the summer of 2018. What's going on?
April 6, 2021
This Is Happening: Feds Let MTA Do Simpler Environmental Review of Congestion Pricing
The Era of No Malarkey has come to New York public transportation.
March 30, 2021
Feds Start to Break the Congestion Pricing Logjam
The Federal Highway Administration told Law360 that the agency "is making New York's congestion pricing plan a priority," the outlet reported.
February 16, 2021
What Will ‘Mayor Pete’ Mean for the U.S. DOT?
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.
December 15, 2020
Cuomo: Congestion Pricing Isn’t Important Enough To Talk About With President-Elect Biden
Gov. Cuomo did not bring up congestion pricing with President-elect Biden in a call the other day — and explained the oversight the way a father of 20 kids might forget one or two.
November 24, 2020
OPINION: Time to Staff Up ‘Traffic Mobility Review Board’
While Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo dither on congestion pricing, they could at least appoint members to the review board that was created under the same state law that created congestion pricing.
November 13, 2020
Report: We Really Need to Divert Money from Drivers to Transit Users
The federal government needs an entirely different way of funding transportation — one that would finally allocate billions of dollars that currently subsidize and encourage driving to fund and expand transit, a new report argues.
September 10, 2020
NYPD: Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed Two Pedestrians On Highways Today
Two people were killed by hit-and-run drivers while police said they attempted to cross highways in two different boroughs just an hour apart early Friday morning.
July 24, 2020
