Dave Colon
Email Dave Colon at dcolon@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Mayor Launches First Phase of QueensWay Linear Park — But What About Transit?
| | No Comments
The mayor appears to have chosen the QueensWay over the QueensLink.
‘Gridlock’ Sam: Give Truckers Credits So Congestion Toll Doesn’t Add to Bronx Pollution
| | No Comments
"The only way congestion pricing would send trucks to the Cross Bronx is if the congestion charge exceeded current tolls," said the former city Traffic Commissioner.
The NYPD and DMV Are Punishing Cyclists For Legally Crossing With The Pedestrian Signal
| | No Comments
Why don’t cops know the law?
Truck Driver Kills Cyclist at Notoriously Deadly Intersection in East New York
| | No Comments
A Brooklyn man was struck and killed by a truck driver on Tuesday afternoon at a notoriously dangerous intersection in East New York — the second person to die at that location this year.
DOT Will Give Deadly McGuinness Boulevard Some Safety Fixes Before Full Redesign
| | No Comments
The DOT is daylighting "select intersections" on McGuinness between Freeman Street and Meeker Avenue, blessing the intersections with either neckdowns or bike corrals.
Everyone’s Suddenly Open To Some Congestion Pricing Exemptions
| | No Comments
According to the recently-released environmental assessment, the more wholesale exemptions or upstream toll credits that are doled out to certain classes of drivers, the more everyone else will shell out. But "no exemption" hardliners are hard to find right now.
Microdose: NYC Takes Small Step Towards Cargo Bike And Small Vehicle Delivery Centers
| | No Comments
A pilot slated for next year isn't anything close to the 'logistics hotels' of Paris, but it's a start.
Mythbuster: Congestion Pricing Study Shows Neighborhoods Won’t Be Flooded With Desperate Parkers
| | No Comments
Time to park this fear in the dustbin of history.
Rep. Ritchie Torres: I’m Not One of Those Congestion Pricing Critics
| | No Comments
He's got some minor issues with the tolling plan, but he still supports it — not like Malliotakis or Gottheimer!
To-Do List: Congestion Pricing Must Mitigate Added Bronx Trucks, Pols Say
| | No Comments
Congestion pricing would send more trucks through The Bronx, which is not good.
Congestion Pricing Matchmaker: Which Tolling Scenario Is Right For You?
| | No Comments
There are seven toll scenarios in the environmental assessment for congestion pricing. Let our matchmaker weed out Toll Wrong.
A Dozen-Plus Electeds Back QueensLink Subway Expansion
| | No Comments
Elected officials in Queens joined forces to seek a big bag of money to study reactivating an old transit right of way, the latest effort to move the project known as QueensLink off the conceptual page and into reality.