Dave Colon
Email Dave Colon at dcolon@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
De Blasio: I Have Too Much ‘Going On’ to Ride the Subway to Work
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"I want to do that and want to do it quickly," the mayor said, about his still unscheduled promise to ride the subway for a week.
De Blasio Seeks 24/7 Vaccinations, But Not a 24/7 Subway
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Don't take the A train, if you're looking to get an early morning vaccine.
Hit-And-Run Driver Kills 4-Year-Old in Front of Bensonhurst School
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The latest crash only highlights the lack of safe, car-free routes to schools for hundreds of thousands of city kids.
Mr. Mayor, We Made Your 2021 Resolutions For You
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From cycling safety to street vending to improving bus commutes, here's a list of what we'd like for Vision Zero.
Streetsies 2020: The Dumbest Things Mayor de Blasio Said This Year
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Sure it was a tough year — but tough year or not, some traditions live on, like our annual list of the worst quotes the mayor conjured up when discussing the city's streets.
THE COLON CYCLE: Mayor Carlos Menchaca Would Get Rid Of One Million Parking Spots
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Brooklyn City Council Member Carlos Menchaca wants to be your mayor. But first, he had to make the most important stop on the 2021 campaign trail: A bike ride with Streetsblog reporter Dave Colon.
OPINION: NYPD’s ‘Bike Safety’ Tweets are a Joke
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The NYPD loves to tweet photos of officers handing out bike safety pamphlets to cyclists. But is this really a good role for the police, to stop people on bikes and make them take a flier on how it's their fault when they get hit by someone driving a car?
The MTA May Finally Be Ready To Embrace Variable Price Tolling
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The MTA is considering instituting peak and off-peak toll prices for its bridges and tunnels, a move to raise more money, but also shift driving patterns that veteran traffic analysts say is long overdue.
A Fairer, Safer City? Here's the Agenda
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Transit and safe streets are the foundation for climbing out of the coronavirus pandemic because street safety and transit improvements "can boost mobility, access, safety, and resiliency," a coalition of groups argue.
MTA Exec: Overnight Service Won’t Be Back Until At Least Next Summer
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The subways will remain a bummer til summer ... at the earliest.
Report: City Needs to Do Lots of Legwork to be Hospitable to Electric Buses
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It's not just plug-and-play. Officials need to do more work to secure the pollution-free transit future.
Senate ‘Skinny’ COVID Bill Leaves Mass Transit Starving
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators revealed a coronavirus compromise bill on Tuesday morning that provides less than half of what transit agencies need, an offer that advocates and transit agencies greeted with like being given a lump of coal on Christmas.