For years now, I have been talking about and debating congestion pricing in New York. I have a master article on all its pros and cons here. A year into the program, most environmental and urbanism groups are calling it…
Every single time I advocate for building protected bike lanes, several people comment something like, “The problem is that cyclists run red lights.” It’s true that cyclists run red lights. It’s wrong that it’s a problem on par with the…
Times Square used to be filled with cars. So was Central Park. Today, having cars dominate either of these seems stupid. Because it is. Central Park is much more pleasant when you hear birds chirping instead of engines revving, and…
On Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the Upper East Side and East Harlem, I biked through 40 green lights in a row. That’s because, when the city put in a new protected bike lane starting at 59th St, they also retimed…
I would like to steal Jarrett Walker’s opening line from his piece, The Fall of Philadelphia: “The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed.” Because of the insanity and…
In the fall of 2019, I was living five blocks from Union Square when New York City banned most private cars from 14th Street. The “14th Street busway,” as it became known, turned the two-way crosstown artery into a bus,…
“The Tide,” Norfolk, Virginia’s light rail system, has been called “The Worst Light Rail System in the U.S.” I rode the Tide myself when I visited friends who live in the Hampton Roads area, so I got to see some…