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Manhattan Panel to DOT: Use Curbside Space for More Than Just Parking
It's a trend! Another Manhattan community board has demanded that the DOT figure out how to reallocate curb space so that roadways are not such a chaotic, unsafe mess.
February 24, 2020
ANALYSIS: CB7 ‘Parking’ Resolution Was Neutral — But It’s The First Salvo in War on Cars
An Upper West Side panel's call for a "study" of curbside use was anodyne, but the study may lead to changes that will forever end the notion of "free" parking. Let's hope.
February 6, 2020
Tuesday’s Headlines: From the Assignment Desk Edition
Tuesday is going to be a banner day in the livable streets, transit advocacy world. That and the rest of the day's headlines.
February 4, 2020
BATTLE LINES: Manhattan Panel to Discuss ‘No Free Parking’ Resolution
It shouldn't be controversial at all — but it is, mostly because car drivers think every inch of roadway belongs to them (and they can put their garbage bags in the pedestrian space, too!).
February 3, 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
Lord Almighty! Now Adams Defends Deadly Double-Parking — As Long as the Driver is a Church-Goer!
The Brooklyn Borough President defended drivers who double-park if they do so while going to pray at church.
January 23, 2020
A Round and a Roundy: The Gods Have Spoken: ‘Pay for Parking’
Even the Parking Gods know that free curbside car storage is not sustainable.
January 23, 2020
City To End Parking at Brooklyn Borough Hall — Once The Beep Leaves Office
The Parks Department has finally lowered the boom — well, sort of. Parking will be banned starting in 2022, after Borough President Eric Adams leaves office.
January 23, 2020
Streetsies 2019: Placard Abuse of the Year
We live in hope that this scourge, after many reform attempts, will end. But we're not counting on it.
December 27, 2019
Friday’s Headlines: Pod Save Brooklyn Edition
It's a big day for the future of bike parking in the city. Plus the other news.
December 13, 2019
