Dave Colon
Email Dave Colon at dcolon@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Cool Job Alert: DOT Seeks Cannon Fodder for ‘Green Wave’
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The department is hiring biking evangelists (um, community coordinators) and traffic engineers in its drive to extend the secure bike network. Got the skills and moxie?
LIVE FROM THE BUSWAY: Car Drivers Surrender on Day 1
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Drivers didn't bother to show up for what the New York Times believes is a "war on cars."
The 14th Street Busway Starts Thursday — But Enforcement Won’t Start ‘Til December
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Drivers will get several months of grace period before being slapped with tickets for breaking the roadway's car-free rules.
EYES ON THE STREET: City Finally Unveils Brooklyn’s First ‘Shared Street’
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Chicanes! Slow driving! People parking in loading zones! But In the languid, yearning words of Julian Casablancas: "Is this it?"
Cops Blow Off Witnesses To Brooklyn Crash That Injured Cyclist
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A police officer who responded to a crash that hospitalized a cyclist got the driver's side of things and ignored a trio of witnesses who tried to tell him what happened, according to one of the outraged witnesses.
UPDATED: Mayor to MTA: You Can Have My Money … on Three Conditions!
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The MTA is expecting $3 billion from the mayor — but he wants to make sure the agency exhausts a lot of other funding first.
MTA Reveals First 48 Stations For Accessibility Upgrades
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The goal, the agency said earlier this week, would be to pick stations that would fill immediate gaps so that riders will no longer ever be more than two stops from a station with an elevator.
Citi Bike Expansion Begins Next Week into Ridgewood and Deeper into Bushwick
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Citi Bike will stretch from Williamsburg all the way to Broadway Junction by the time this phase of the expansion is finished.
Astoria Council Member Backs Protected Bike Lane Linking Queensboro and Triborough bridges
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"We want that connectivity, and the only way to do that is with a protected bike lane. To do just sharrows or paint is not the solution we're looking for."
Citi Bike Ridership Hits New Record — So When Will the City Subsidize This Vital Form of Transit?
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Over 19 million people rode the big blue bikes between July 2018 and June 2019, an increase of 11 percent.
MTA Reveals $51B Capital Plan — Now the Challenge is Funding it
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It's real, it's expensive and it's historic (again).
ARE WE SAFE ANYWHERE? Another SUV Driver Kills a Pedestrian, This Time a Senior Citizen
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It's the second such fatality in Brooklyn in four days — and neither victim was even in the street!