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ESSAY: A Brush With Danger Made Me Exhibit A in My Fight for Better Bike Lanes in Brooklyn
I was cycling home on Henry Street in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 when I became Exhibit A in my campaign for protected bike lanes in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.
January 9, 2025
Yonah’s List: All the Transit Expansion in the United States in 2024
A review of 2024 — plus a look at the light rail, metro, and bus rapid transit projects planned to open in 2025.
January 9, 2025
Congestion Pricing: City Needs to Get Real With Plate, Placard Frauds
The Police Department boasted nabbing two would-be toll evaders with obscured plates, but more needs to be done.
January 8, 2025
Wednesday’s Headlines: Welcome to the Panderdome
State lawmakers are already trying to chip away at the already-promising congestion pricing program. Plus other news.
January 8, 2025
Janno Lieber Slams GOP Rep. Lawler’s Anti-MTA ‘Grievance’ Politics, Potty Talk in Opposing Congestion Pricing
"Like many things, it’s hard to do good policy sometimes when you’re surrounded by grievance politics," Lieber said, responding to a congressman who said he needs "an enema."
January 7, 2025
Queensboro Bridge Pedestrians and Cyclists Still Crunched for Space Despite Congestion Pricing Launch
A rundown of the key street design changes Mayor Adams must make to take advantage of congestion pricing.
January 7, 2025
Tuesday’s Headlines: More Congestion Pricing Lies Edition
The Chicken Littles and plutocratic populists at the New York Post continued their flood-the-zone assault on congestion pricing. Plus other news.
January 7, 2025
STOP THE MADNESS: There Was Snow Way To Figure Out on Monday If Congestion Pricing ‘Works’
Give it a week, even a month before you start engaging in arguments with strangers about how congestion pricing is playing out. You'll feel better, promise.
January 6, 2025
Monday’s Headlines: Congestion Pricing Hysteria Edition
It's congestion pricing Day 2 in New York City. Here's a round-up of the coverage (and commentary) of Day 1.
January 6, 2025
Strangers Not Strangers: How I Greeted the Start of Congestion Pricing
We were a solid hundred at 60th Street and Lexington Avenue early this morning, greeting the turn of Saturday into Sunday to count down the start, finally, of congestion pricing in New York City. Ketcham was there. So were Naparstek, Orcutt, Sproule Love and Jacob W, among a dozen or two people I knew well enough to embrace. (More about them later.)
January 5, 2025
