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Thursday’s Headlines: Car Culture Myth-Making Edition
We found ourself appalled at a publishing company's forthcoming hagiography of car culture. Plus other news.
September 15, 2022
Uber: We Do Support Congestion Pricing, But With One Caveat
We received the following opinion piece after publishing a story about Uber's effort to encourage its customers to "say no” to congestion pricing. We present it because we believe in spirited debate.
September 12, 2022
New Year, Same Dangers: Mayor Adams Has Made Only a Tiny Fraction of School Streets Safer
The Adams administration has redesigned a small fraction of streets near schools, leaving the city's 1.75 million children exposed to high rates of car crashes and injuries on school streets as public schools reopen today.
September 8, 2022
Long-Ignored Far Rockaway Speedway Finally Getting Safety Redesign
Finally, the city will do more than just install speed cameras.
September 6, 2022
Uber Puts Its Thumb On The Congestion Pricing Scales
The world's largest ride-hailing company sent a notice to their New York City-area customers, asking them to "say no to increased fares" and suggested that congestion pricing might mean "you could pay more than $30 — in just taxes and fees."
September 1, 2022
ANALYSIS: $50 Million Is Just The Tip of the MTA’s Toll Evasion Iceberg
According to a Streetsblog analysis, the MTA lost a whopping $144 million to toll scofflaws last year.
August 31, 2022
NYPD Cop Left Creepy Voicemail for 311 User After Illegal Parking Complaint, CCRB Finds
The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board has recommended disciplinary charges against a city police officer for crank calling a Brooklyn man who filed 311 complaints about illegal parking – and for misleading investigators about the episode.
August 29, 2022
NYC Transforms Site of Award-Winning Outdoor Dining Space Into Street Parking
When Mayor Eric Adams grabbed a sledgehammer and knocked down an unused outdoor dining structure in Koreatown last week, his administration suggested that not all of these hard-won, carless public spaces would revert back to parking.
August 25, 2022
Can This Documentary Get Americans to Care About Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?
A new documentary aims to tell the dramatic story of America's escalating pedestrian and cyclist death crisis — and hopefully, inspire non-advocates to get involved in the movement to end the epidemic.
August 25, 2022
NYPD To Brooklyn Man: Your 311 Illegal Parking Complaints Are ‘Wasting Our Time’
"I'm informing you that we are not responding to your calls," an officer in the 88th Precinct told the Fort Greene resident over the phone last week in response to the resident's 311 complaints about illegal parking. "You are wasting our time ... with these silly jobs."
August 24, 2022
