'Not Acceptable': Uptown Greenway to Close For 6 Months …
Sep 23, 2024 · Safety last. The Parks Department will close off a mile-and-a-half stretch of the busiest bike path in America for six months, sending cyclists onto dangerous streets of the Upper West Side, with astoundingly little warning, starting today.
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Upper East Side Backs Central Park Transverse Plan Despite Anti-E …
4 days ago · The city's most-fervent anti-cycling activists failed on Wednesday night to convince a notoriously anti-bike Upper East Side community board to reject a common-sense safety redesign of Central Park's roadways in a way that would actually reduce bike and pedestrian conflicts.. Manhattan Community Board 8's Parks and Transportation Committee's 10-to-five vote in …
Room for Improvement: What New York’s Subway System Can …
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.
Boondoggle: State And Feds Are Dumping Yet Another Giant …
Aug 15, 2024 · More highways in the Bronx? No thonx! Gov. Hochul plans to use federal money to build a mile-long, four-lane highway alongside the Cross Bronx Expressway — selling it as a "community connector" despite its environmental negatives for neighborhoods long plagued by the deleterious effect of putting cars over people.
EXCLUSIVE: OMNY Debuts on Fair Fares After Delays
May 1, 2024 · New Yorkers who participate in the city's half-priced transit program Fair Fares will finally be able to use OMNY, the MTA's tap-and-go payment system — starting with a 90-day pilot for 50 riders, city and MTA officials said.
A Father Speaks: Here’s Why The Speed Limit Must Be 20 MPH …
Oct 9, 2024 · On Wednesday, the Department of Transportation followed through on previous announcements and began lowering the speed limit from 25 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour on a few streets and, eventually, all of Manhattan below Canal Street. At an event on Prospect Park West, a speed-limit sign was changed from 25 to 20, and politicians took credit for taking …
Community Board Wants Protected Bike Lane on Empire Blvd.
Apr 26, 2024 · Excelsior! A Brooklyn community board wants city to upgrade the frequently blocked bike lane on Empire Boulevard that serves as a gateway to Prospect Park and bring some much needed road safety to a neighborhood Vision Zero forgot.
Hot Pursuit: NYPD Chases Still Surging Unleashing Danger on City ...
May 29, 2024 · It's a flee for all. Drivers seeking to escape the NYPD — and the agency's massive increase in its pursuit of said drivers — continue to surge, despite previous media coverage of the danger unleashed by desperate motorists racing away from cops.
ESSAY: A Brush With Danger Made Me Exhibit A in My Fight for …
5 days ago · I was cycling home on Henry Street in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 when I became Exhibit A in my campaign for protected bike lanes in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. Our area of Brooklyn is a major hole in the borough’s protected bike lane network. Despite an explosion in …