Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Op/Ed

A brining team on Queens Boulevard. Photo: Department of Sanitation

OPINION: Swap Out Car Lanes for a Center-Running Bus Lane, Better Bike Facilities on Queens Boulevard

By Samuel Santaella | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

Here's a better way to fix of the 'Boulevard of Death' than the DOT has yet proposed.

Facebook is an epicenter for the fake plates market.

Opinion: Fake Plates are Hiding in Plain Sight on Facebook, Yet Authorities Do Little

By Steven Bodzin | Apr 12, 2022 | No Comments

The market has moved to Facebook Marketplace and fellow Meta app Instagram.

DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez in Times Square on Thursday. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

CYCLE OF RAGE: New York City’s ‘Car-Free Earth Day’ is a Sad Joke

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 31, 2022 | No Comments

Once again, we learn that our elected officials can't be bothered to even do the least they could do.

Opinion: Alternatives to California’s Pro-Car Giveaway

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 28, 2022 | No Comments

Of the myriad motorist giveaways now being rushed into place around the U.S., none sting like California’s.

So called "free parking" exacts a high toll on our streets, air and the taxpayer. Photo: Chris Murphy/Flickr

OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air

By Richard Robbins | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.

Kids trying to cross Canal Street on a "Gridlock Alert" day on Wednesday. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Op-Ed: It's Time for Action on Canal St.

By Joseph Tedeschi | Mar 9, 2022 | No Comments

What is to be done about traffic and safety? And why has only negligible action been taken for decades?

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