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America’s Best Bus Stops Round 1: Bus Stop Behemoths
As we begin our quest to find America's best bus stop, we thought we'd bend the rules just a bit and take a look at bus stations — some of which serve a few other types of transit, too.
March 20, 2022
Behold! Your New LaGuardia Airport Transit Options (Including One Old One)
Considering these five light rail routes, five bus routes, two subway extensions, one ferry service and, alarmingly, "other emerging technologies" to get travelers to and from the Queens airport.
March 3, 2022
OPINION: The LaGuardia AirTrain Is About Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
The project's benefits will bolster our economy for decades, says A Better Way to LGA coalition.
September 22, 2020
Op-Ed: For a Safe, Healthy City, We Need an Auto-Free Zone in Manhattan
COVID-19 underscores that closing streets to traffic and enhancing amenities in the crowded core will be vital to the survival of urban America.
April 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: LGA AirTrain is Andrew Cuomo’s $2B Parking Lot
UPDATED: The real motivator behind the Backwards LaGuardia AirTrain, a toy train for the business class, is not transit. It's cars.
January 24, 2020
Op-Ed: Stop the Runaway LaGuardia AirTrain
New York should pull the plug on this $2-billion boondoggle. But the governor wants it, so it is hurtling ahead.
January 3, 2020
AirTrain Fare Hike Could Send Riders to the Roads
A regressive move that won't help help regional congestion or economic goals.
October 4, 2019
BQX Advocates Make Pitch for Trolley — But Critics Push Back
Mayor de Blasio needs to just abandon his beloved $2.7-billion BQX streetcar, opponents said Thursday at the City Council's first trolley task force hearing.
May 31, 2019
North Carolina Lawmakers Try to Sabotage Durham-Orange Light Rail
State lawmakers in North Carolina launched a sneak attack this week on plans for light rail between Durham and Orange County — and nobody’s sure exactly who’s behind it or why they did it.
September 17, 2015
Take a Look and Vote on the New Proposals for a Car-Free 42nd Street
For nearly 15 years, a group of architects and planners who go under the banner of Vision42 have advocated for a car-free 42nd Street with light rail and expanded pedestrian space [PDF]. Hoping to catch the interest of the de Blasio administration, last spring the group launched a competition seeking conceptual designs for a re-imagined 42nd Street. Now the four finalists are up for a public vote.
January 13, 2015