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OPINION: Pedestrianize the Financial District Now!
Why is the Department of Transportation idawdling on implementing the "Make Way for Lower Manhattan" plan?
July 11, 2022
OPINION: Here’s How the Council Will ‘Stop the Chop’ in New York
A council member from Brooklyn offers a common-sense bill to curtail helicopter havoc.
June 27, 2022
DR: STRANGECAR: Or How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Hate E-Cars
June 23, 2022
CYCLE OF RAGE: Another Ticking Time Bomb Goes Off in Park Slope
A Park Slope pedestrian was struck and injured recently by the driver of a Honda — a car that had been slapped with nine camera-issued speeding tickets and three red light tickets in less than two years. It's the same old story.
June 17, 2022
KOMANOFF: Idiocy of Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Eludes Times Columnist
New Yorkers don’t need lofty essays that make congestion pricing an object lesson in environmental process gone wrong.
June 13, 2022
OPINION: Pete Buttigieg Is Failing New York (And The Country) on Congestion Pricing
Traffic patterns in Philadelphia? In PHILADELPHIA?!
June 10, 2022
OPINION: We Can Have Nice Things … Once We Get Rid of King Car
Europe has great public places. A walk or bike ride from Borough Hall to City Hall across an auto-free Brooklyn Bridge would equal any of them.
June 8, 2022
OPINION: New York Must Stop Subsidizing Car Usage
Enough is enough, says a candidate for Assembly from downtown Manhattan.
June 7, 2022
OPINION: Make Cars Safer for People Outside of Vehicles
Join these campaigns and send a message to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
June 5, 2022
OPINION: City Must Protect Bikers, Walkers During Hudson Greenway Closure
A hilly, unsafe detour needs better signage and physical barriers separating vulnerable road users from cars.
June 3, 2022
