March 1, 2021
Via: NYC Streets BlogVision Zero? How about Vision 25 by 25? A coalition of safe-street advocates are calling on all mayoral candidates to commit to giving streets back to the people, by transforming at least a quarter of the space that’s currently dedicated […]
Basic Services, Public Transport
February 1, 2021
Via: NYC Streets BlogMetra is a transit agency that provides commuter rail service largely geared towards people traveling between the suburbs and downtown Chicago for 9-to-5 jobs. It also offers limited commuter service within the city, as well as some near-rapid service between […]
January 11, 2021
Via: NYC Streets BlogCities might soon get federal money to tear down inner-city highways that federal dollars built in the first place — and use that money to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed. Shortly before the holiday recess, then-Senate […]
August 12, 2020
Via: NYC Streets BlogAn influential Manhattan panel is asking the city to allow “quick-build” curb extensions, arguing that the current restrictions hurts pedestrian safety and disadvantages poor and residential areas. Manhattan Community Board 4 has asked the Department of Transportation that it “reexamine […]
Basic Services, Public Transport
September 1, 2017
Via: NYC Streets BlogCouncil Member Carlos Menchaca wants more direct bus service from Red Hook to Manhattan and a “full Vision Zero redesign” of Brooklyn’s Third Avenue, which runs through Sunset Park underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Menchaca outlined his transportation agenda at a […]
March 2, 2023
February 28, 2023