Oct 3, 2024 · MTA Room for Improvement: What New York’s Subway System Can Learn from Cities Around the World. New York’s subway was once an international model of modernity.

Jan 5, 2025 · Well here we are — the beginning of the age of congestion pricing. It finally happened after literal decades as a mere idea: One failed push in the aughts by then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg then a successful push in the 2010s by environmental and transit advocates with an eventual assist from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who now more than anything wants you to forget that he was the guy who twisted ...

Feb 25, 2025 · How an Ex-Delivery Worker Upended NYC’s Streets. Ou Zhou, a former delivery worker who founded Fly E-Bike, has hit it big selling fast, low-cost electric bikes and mopeds to delivery workers, transforming New York City streets in the process.

Jan 29, 2025 · The city must include critical street safety improvements along a six-lane portion of Atlantic Avenue as part of a neighborhood rezoning proposal in Brooklyn, including a road diet and infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, the Borough President said this week.

Jan 13, 2025 · Congestion Pricing IT’S WORKING: Initial Data Show Congestion Pricing Has Stemmed The Tide of Years of Increasing Traffic. Travel times are down an average of 34 percent across the eight bridges and tunnels into the Central Business District, which saw a 7.5-percent drop in overall traffic, according to MTA figures.

Nov 22, 2024 · Well, it’s a little more housing in some neighborhoods. The City Council's vote on Thursday to water down Mayor Adams's signature "City of Yes" rezoning — ending mandatory parking in areas with the best transit while keeping the costly mandate in low-density neighborhoods where it most hinders development — demonstrates the restive legislature's failure to institute progressive ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Pedestrians aren't even safe in this city when they have the light and they're in a crosswalk and they see a driver coming right at them and try to get out of his way.. A reckless driver rang out a deadly year for pedestrians by turning directly into two women pushing strollers as they crossed Nostrand Avenue at Kings Highway at around 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 31.

Dec 23, 2024 · Congestion Pricing Congestion Pricing Dream Lives On After Two Judges Rule in MTA’s Favor. New York won two major victories in court on Monday after federal judges declined to put the skids on congestion pricing's Jan. 5 launch — and hinted that they don't think the lawsuits to stop the program will succeed.

Apr 8, 2024 · The streets on both ends of the Queensboro Bridge will be remade into safer, people-first spaces as part of the long-awaited reopening of the span's south outer roadway that will finally give cyclists and pedestrians a separate path to walk and ride on.

Jan 16, 2025 · Attempts to thwart DOT's efforts have become rampant recently, what with City Council Member Vickie Paladino recommending what models of laser pointer people should purchase in order to disable congestion pricing cameras.. X.com. And on Thursday, a new campaign was started by Hasidic residents of Bedford Avenue to "close" the protected bike lane there on the grounds that it is unsafe for kids ...