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Thursday’s Headlines: The Port Authority’s Climate Strip-Tease Edition
The Port Authority says it will announce "aggressive" climate goals today. Let's see if it discourages driving! Plus other news.
October 28, 2021
The 10 Best Ideas We Heard at Tuesday’s Epic ‘Vision Zero’ Hearing
...and it doesn't take much to implement them (except some courage).
October 26, 2021
DOT Wants Meeting with State DMV Head to Get Killer Drivers Off the Road
Hank Gutman wants a sit-down with DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder (who? Exactly.)
October 25, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Lessons from Britain’s ‘School Streets’
How London learned to keep children safe and healthier by restricting cars.
October 20, 2021
SAFETY THIRD: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Deaf Man on Notorious Speedway that DOT Failed to Fix
A Brooklyn man was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a notoriously dangerous stretch of Atlantic Avenue in East New York on Friday night — a fatal crash that presents real-time evidence of the incompetence and apathy of city officials in keeping its most vulnerable residents safe.
October 16, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Cheap, Rapid, and in Our Control
How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.
October 16, 2021
IT’S OVER: State’s Highest Court Sets Aside Last Challenges to City’s ‘Right of Way’ Law
It turns out it IS a crime to drive with negligence and then hit someone with your car.
October 12, 2021
DOT’s ‘Vision Zero Partner’ Dermot Shea is More Afraid of Bikes Than Cars — Despite His Own Agency’s Data
He's the Vision Zero partner with zero vision.
October 6, 2021
Opinion: Congestion Pricing Does Not Begin to Compensate Society for the Harm and Violence Caused by Cars
Much of the coverage of congestion pricing focuses on the need for a toll to reduce congestion or pollution. And that's important. But drivers need to know that they do far more harm than merely causing traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Put simply: Cars destroy the human living environment in the city.
October 5, 2021
Open Plans Brings on Three New Hires in Fight for Livable Streets
October 4, 2021
