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Costly Utility Rates Could Jeopardize MTA’s Move to All-Electric Buses

This summer, utility companies must submit plans detailing how they’ll implement a series of solutions to make electricity rates more affordable for electric vehicles. But their plan has fallen short of giving the MTA the preferential rate it says it needs to able to foot the bill, as it seeks to transition its 5,800-bus fleet off fossil fuels.
How Our Obsession With Parking Fuels the Climate Crisis

What could a city like New York achieve if it repurposed some of its 3 million curbside parking spots? It could help drivers kick their addictions to cars and avert climate catastrophe, writes Henry Grabar, author of the new book "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World."
South Bronx Street Vendors Topped City’s Inspection List in Final Months of DCWP Enforcement

In the first quarter of this year, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued 414 tickets to street vendors. The agency is no longer leading vendor enforcement as of April 1, when the Department of Sanitation took over.
Opinion: Building the QueensWay is an Investment in Our Communities

"The QueensWay is a unique opportunity to connect neighborhoods and people, and give families and residents the green space we deserve."
Opinion: Queens’ 34th Avenue Shows What Open Streets Can Do for People

"The 34th Avenue Open Street shows how urban roads can be repurposed to make a more livable city. Even more, it is an example of how communities must lead these efforts so that streets reflect a common vision for what communities care about."
Opinion: MTA Must Reinstate the Mask Mandate on Access-A-Ride

"With the mask mandate lifted, Access-A-Ride users face the unimaginable choice between risking their lives to simply get where they need to get or going back to isolating themselves in their homes."
Opinion: Fare Hike is the Wrong Approach to MTA’s Financial Woes

"If New York’s city and state leaders truly prioritize a society where social equity as well as environmental sustainability are fundamental values, discussion of subway and bus fare increases would not be on the table. And if the overarching goal is to bring riders back to the nation’s greatest public transit system, why disincentivize them with higher fares?"
Few Homeless New Yorkers Moving from Subways to Safe Havens, As Enforcement Continues

Adams’ early commitments to open new “low-barrier” shelters comes into sharper focus as he closes out his first year in office, with yet another plan to remove homeless New Yorkers from trains and public spaces. New York City has about 600 new specialized shelters for street homeless New Yorkers, but data shows relatively few people are moving from the subways to the largely congregate sites.

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