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“This absence of unified design and management can compound inequality. Where some areas of the city have seen the lion’s share of the city’s attention, other areas have been and…

ByHunter Armstrong

BySharon Pope-Marshall

ByEdMundo Martinez 1Comment

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Aug 2023

Government Transportation

Opinion: Manhattan Bridge Bike Path Crash Calls Attention to a Growing Problem

“The crash on the Manhattan Bridge calls attention to the immediate need for visionary leadership as well as difficult conversations about the purpose of the city’s precious bike lane real…

ByCody Lyon 1Comment

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Nov 2021

Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Redesigning SoHo’s Streets for People and Community

‘SoHo is a picturesque, architectural gem of a place to live and work…But it is also an impossible mess of traffic, mini skyscrapers of garbage bags, and elbow wars of…

BySara Schiller 1Comment

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Apr 2021

Government Transportation Video

Trains, Plans & Automobiles: Transportation Issues in the 2021 Campaign

From subways and buses to bikes and ferries, the people who win this year’s elections for mayor and other city offices will not only shape how New Yorkers get around,…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Feb 2021

Health Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Street Safety, Protected Bike Lanes Must Be Part of New York’s COVID Recovery

‘With vaccine distribution ramping up…and the state preparing to help employers bring workers back into the office, it’s safe to say biking will be the habit of even more New…

ByJimmy Van Bramer 1Comment

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Feb 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice NYCHA

The Policy Shop: Human Trafficking, New Taxes and a Greener NYCHA

Proposals from candidates for mayor and district attorney would bring new levies on Wall Street, residential parking permits, solar panels on NYCHA roofs, and more.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Aug 2019

Uncategorized

Pedestrian Injuries Rise in Bushwick, Where Safety Features are Few

An upcoming rezoning has some worried that more residents will clog up the roads in cars and bikes, contributing to more crashes and pedestrian deaths.

ByRachel Rippetoe 0Comments

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Aug 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Death Highlights Need for the Right Kind of Bike Lane

The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane…

ByCody Lyon 3Comments

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Mar 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Why City Cyclists Should Support Congestion Pricing

They don’t sit in traffic. They don’t depend solely on the MTA to get them to work or home. But the people who commute on two wheels have plenty of…

ByCody Lyon 8Comments

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Oct 2016

Uncategorized

CityViews: Fear and Loathing on New York’s Bike Lanes

A thoughtlessly opened car door knocked the author off her bike, for a year. Deeper than the asphalt wounds was a terror of cars and new insight into what a…

ByDorothee Benz 14Comments

Opinion: In the ‘Year of Greenways,’ Let’s Insist on Equity