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City’s New Trash Containerization Still Keeps Garbage in Pedestrians’ Way
Putting trash in containers is great for combatting rats, but "it's insulting" to pedestrians, said one of the city's foremost advocates.
June 28, 2023
Donor Class McGuinness Safety Opponents Reel in Brooklyn Dem Boss, DOT Commish for ‘Sham’ Town Hall
Opponents of the city’s proposed safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard flexed their political muscle on Thursday, even luring the boss of Brooklyn’s Democratic county machine — to whom they’ve donated tens of thousands of dollars.
June 16, 2023
Opinion: Why We Should Stop Using the Word ‘Micromobility’
When we hear any word with the prefix “micro,” we intuitively understand that it refers to something not just small, but smaller than the norm.
June 12, 2023
The Debt Ceiling Deal Could Be Bad News For Freeway Fighters
A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations, advocates warn.
June 2, 2023
Opinion: What Two Massacres in Texas — One With a Car, One With a Gun — Reveal About America’s Culture of Violence
Two eerily similar mass killings in Texas had very different coverage. One involved a gun. The other, a car.
May 11, 2023
Traffic Studies Are ‘Junk Science’ — Yet Planners, Courts Rely on Them Anyway
Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could change.
April 9, 2023
The Brake Podcast: How to Reframe the Narrative About Car Dependency
On today's episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson brings you an extended interview with Grant Ennis, author of Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment. Listen now.
March 30, 2023
Albany’s Residential Parking Program Won’t Be Good for New York City: Analysis
A Senate proposal to encourage New York City to create a Residential Parking Permit system won't help break the city's car culture, multiple studies show.
March 16, 2023
The French Understand the Roadway Danger of Toxic Masculinity
A new French safety campaign is warning parents that they may play a far bigger role in preventing car crashes than they might think.
February 17, 2023
How Deadly Are Your Streets? New Data Tool Shows the Hard Truth
A new federal tool helps Americans see at a glance exactly how deadly traffic violence is in their community — and how their neighbors stack up.
February 8, 2023
