City Limits - In-depth New York City News

Special Project

The Ride

News and views for a commuting city

City Limits Newsletters

Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you.

Notify NYC

Notify NYC - Traffic Delays January 20, 2020
Notification issued 01-20-2020 at 4:18 PM. Due to a vehicle collision, expect extensive southbound traffic delays on the Major Deegan Expressway just past West Fordham Road in The Bronx. Consider alternate routes and allow for additional travel time. To view this message in American Sign Language (ASL), العربية, বাঙালি, 中文, Français, Kreyòl Ayisyen, Italiano, 한국어, […]
Notify NYC - Fire January 20, 2020
Notification issued 01-20-2020 at 3:35 PM. Emergency personnel are on scene of what is now a five alarm fire located at Rensselaer Avenue and Foster Road in Staten Island. Expect smoke, traffic delays, and a presence of emergency personnel and vehicles in the area. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises avoiding smoke […]
Notify NYC - Fire January 20, 2020
Notification issued 01-20-2020 at 3:15 PM. Emergency personnel are on scene of a three alarm fire located at Rensselaer Avenue and Forster Road in Staten Island. Expect smoke, traffic delays, and a presence of emergency personnel and vehicles in the area. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises avoiding smoke exposure from structural […]

Featured Artcles

Llamada de emergencia: propuesta para salvar la crisis de los medallones de taxis

El lunes pasado, noviembre 18 de 2019, el consejo de la ciudad desarrolló una audiencia sobre transporte. Al principio de esta Ydanis Rodríguez, presidente del comité de transporte, mencionó que en ella se discutirá el presente y el futuro de esta industria.
Ydanis Rodriguez Says He Wants to Make NYC Transit Free for Working Class Residents

Lee la versión en español here. Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the City Council's transportation committee, said Wednesday he's pursuing legislation that would provide free public transportation for working-class city residents.
Opinion: Is it Time for NYers to Park Their SUVs … Permanently?

Late one afternoon this past summer while riding my bike down Brooklyn's Court Street, a horn-blaring Ford Explorer sports-utility vehicle (SUV) nearly side-swiped me as it sped by — confirming yet again, SUVs are the angry hippos of narrow New York City streets. Size is precisely why so many Americans are in love with SUVs. But that's also the reason why the increasing popularity of SUVs poses a grave threat—not only to the city's pedestrians and cyclists—but to our planet's survival. Simple physics dictates bigger, heavier, and less aerodynamic vehicles gulp down more gas and expunge tons more planet-warming greenhouse gasses (GHG) into the atmosphere than smaller, agile cars. And therein lies a potential conundrum for automobile drivers who on one hand, profess concern about global warming, but on the other, have succumbed to the allure of extra legroom and rugged cargo hauling space an SUV offers.
Outside the Spotlight, are Buses Ready for the Next Storm?

Last month marked seven years since Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, and last Tuesday—the anniversary of the superstorm's landfall—MTA officials took reporters on a tour of the Coney Island Railyard in Brooklyn, a storage site for more than 800 subway cars that was flooded by 27 million gallons of saltwater back in 2012. Veronique Hakim, the MTA's managing director, pointed out various parts of the yard that were upgraded since Sandy with storm protection features, including ongoing construction of a hulking flood wall around the site's perimeter and as well as an elevated bridge to house power cables for the yard—which, pre-Sandy, would have been buried underground.
City’s Half-Priced MetroCard Program Continues to Expand, But Frustrations Persist

Since its launch at the start of the year, more than 76,000 people have enrolled in the city's Fair Fares program, which offers half-priced MetroCards to certain residents living at or below the federal poverty line—an effort to alleviate some of the burden low-income New Yorkers face in accessing public transit. And as the city gets ready to expand the program's eligibility requirements this fall and winter, advocates and residents continue to push for it to cover more people, saying access to affordable transit provides myriad benefits and would help reduce fare evasion in the transit system, something MTA leaders have been cracking down on in recent months.
The Good News and Big Questions in the MTA’s Very, Very Big Capital Plan

The five-year, $51.5 billion capital plan approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board on Wednesday is the largest in MTA history—some $18 billion larger than its previous plan. It promises to fund new signals on 11 subway lines, add nearly 2,000 new subway cars, create a few new stations and make dozens of them more accessible as well as launch the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway.
Opinion: Expand Transit Service to Queens by Building the QNS

When all of the proposed plans in the current MTA Capital Budget are finished, Brooklyn and the Bronx will still have better rail service and Queens will still be left with congested stations. A straphanger boarding one of Queens’ 78 New York City Transit train stations will still experience crowding at a rate 30 percent greater than that of a Brooklyn or Bronx traveler.
Opinion: 14 Reasons Why Citi Bike in Bushwick is a Bad Idea

At some point every day, we traverse Bushwick Avenue. During the morning and afternoon rush hour, cars, trucks, and buses make their way to their destination; typically going to and later returning from work.