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Displaying all articles tagged:
Transportation
getting around
Mar. 4, 2024
People Are Still Quite Worked Up About Congestion Pricing
“I’m a resident, you know, so this is very unfair and unfair to my mom.”
By
Clio Chang
neighborhoods
Feb. 9, 2024
What Subway Shutdown?
It is seemingly not affecting people’s appetites for Greenpoint apartments.
By
Adriane Quinlan
transportation
Dec. 18, 2023
Southwest Air Will Think Twice About Ruining the Holidays Again
The airline was hit with a $140 million fine for its 2022 holiday-season meltdown.
By
Nia Prater
street view
Dec. 12, 2023
Making Headway on the Perfect New York Street
Two years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
By
Justin Davidson
getting around
Dec. 1, 2023
Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer Intersections
Not all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
By
Clio Chang
getting around
Nov. 29, 2023
A Postcard From Driverless San Francisco
Unexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
By
Theodore Gioia
getting around
Nov. 3, 2023
Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the Outside
The indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
Sept. 13, 2023
Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.
Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
By
Justin Davidson
street view
Sept. 7, 2023
Janette Sadik-Khan on Getting Congestion Pricing Right
‘We don’t look ready.”
By
Justin Davidson
the city
Aug. 14, 2023
The Candy Sellers
The lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
By
Jordan Salama
getting around
July 7, 2023
New Subway and Rail Tunnels Are Coming! Eventually.
Maybe in 2035. Or later.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
June 28, 2023
Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look Promising
Could they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?
By
Justin Davidson
just asking questions
June 26, 2023
Why Pedestrian Deaths Are Skyrocketing in America
Transportation expert Yonah Freemark on all the reasons the U.S. is such a deadly road-safety outlier.
By
Benjamin Hart
the group portrait
June 2, 2023
Pilgrimage to the Meadowlands (Taylor’s Version)
How to get an army of Swifties to the MetLife Stadium — and its parking lot.
By
Zach Schiffman
and
Sara Messinger
street view
May 31, 2023
Congestion Pricing’s Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Lessons from London’s 20 years of experience.
By
Justin Davidson
getting around
May 19, 2023
Did Jeff Bezos Put His Girlfriend on the Bow of His Superyacht?
The massive schooner cost $500 million to build. Hidden declarations of love are priceless.
By
Katie McDonough
getting around
Feb. 24, 2023
A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master Plans
Part 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
By
Alissa Walker
ohio train derailment
Feb. 15, 2023
What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio?
Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Feb. 13, 2023
Why It Costs So Much to Build Our Subways
An NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
Dec. 21, 2022
Walkable City
’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling Traffic
Ten years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
By
Justin Davidson
getting around
Dec. 8, 2022
Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks
If you want to know what kind of mayor he’s been for Los Angeles, just look down.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Nov. 22, 2022
GM Is Fixing Busted Teslas Now
About 11,000 of them so far, according to GM’s president.
By
Alissa Walker
design history
Aug. 31, 2022
We’ll Miss You, MetroCard Machine
After more than two decades, the city is replacing the squat stainless-steel machines to make way for OMNY.
By
Karrie Jacobs
getting around
Aug. 26, 2022
Talking to the Last Man Standing at the Congestion-Pricing Hearing
An all-nighter with the MTA (and
The Real Housewives of Dubai
).
By
Katie McDonough
getting around
Aug. 26, 2022
6 Hours and 42 Minutes of Insults and Minor Meltdowns
A “money grab,” an “embarrassment,” and other complaints from the MTA’s first congestion-pricing hearing.
By
Wilfred Chan
streets
Aug. 4, 2022
Eastern Parkway Was Never Meant to Be a Highway
The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.
By
Diana Budds
special delivery
Apr. 29, 2022
Who
Isn’t
Suing the USPS Over Its Gas-Guzzler Trucks?
Sixteen states, plus three big metro regions, are trying to get the post office to electrify faster.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Apr. 25, 2022
Who’s Afraid of the Subway?
Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.
By
Reeves Wiedeman
getting around
Apr. 25, 2022
I Was a Teenage Subway Terror
Now I’m the elder on the subway, praying that the band of teens next to me on the platform doesn’t get in the same car.
By
Collier Meyerson
getting around
Apr. 25, 2022
How Will New York Remember the Subway Shooter?
The city is lousy with people who do horrible things and pass into legend.
By
Mark Jacobson
getting around
Apr. 25, 2022
The Subway Is New York’s Safety Net
It’s not merely a picture of who any of us might become but of who we are right now.
By
Ryu Spaeth
getting around
Apr. 7, 2022
A Streets Plan That’s Really a Time Machine
NYC’s City Council wants you to get everywhere faster.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Apr. 5, 2022
Turn Gas Subsidies Into Money for Everyone
People can spend it on gas if they want!
By
Alissa Walker
encounter
Mar. 31, 2022
Pete Buttigieg Is Living His Best Life
How billions of dollars in infrastructure funds turned the Transportation secretary into a D.C. power broker.
By
Ross Barkan
design edit
Mar. 25, 2022
Marimekko Wallpaper, a Transit Zine, and More Design Finds
Plus an art and design lending library at the Tribeca art gallery 52 Walker.
By
Diana Budds
getting around
Feb. 3, 2022
There’s Just One Problem With That Cute New USPS Truck
The first huge order of vehicles will mostly be gasoline-powered rather than electric.
By
Alissa Walker
highway removal
Jan. 26, 2022
About Time: Syracuse’s I-81 Is Finally Being Demolished
Kathy Hochul’s next move aims to start rectifying a mid-century mistake.
By
Alissa Walker
crime
Jan. 19, 2022
The Infamous FBI Informant Behind a 20-Fatality Limo Crash
It was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade. The man behind it was one of the most notorious confidential informants in FBI history.
By
Ben Ryder Howe
highways to hell
Dec. 17, 2021
One State Is Showing Us How to End America’s Addiction to Highway Expansion
Colorado passed a first-in-the-nation rule requiring new transportation projects to prove they can reduce emissions.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Dec. 16, 2021
OMNY Fare Cap Gives Everyone an Unlimited Pass
Once you’ve spent $33, you ride free ’til the next week.
By
Valeria Ricciulli
getting around
Nov. 3, 2021
Michelle Wu Can Be America’s First Actual Climate Mayor
Boston’s new chief executive is a bus-riding mom who wants to make transit free.
By
Alissa Walker
transportation
Sept. 26, 2021
Amtrak Train Derails in Montana, Killing 3 People
As many as 50 people were injured. The cause of the derailment, which sent eight cars off the tracks, is not yet clear.
By
Chas Danner
streets
Sept. 23, 2021
The Street Fight Is Back
Everybody wants a piece of your block, and it’s going to take a lot more than planters and metal barricades to resolve who gets what.
By
Diana Budds
streets
Sept. 17, 2021
I Wish I Liked the New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane More
A hard-won symbolic victory that’s a baby step.
By
Diana Budds
getting around
Sept. 2, 2021
How Does An Elevated Highway in New York City Even Flood?
It’s a road that’s above ground. Shouldn’t it drain?
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Sept. 2, 2021
The FDR Drive, Swamped Last Night, Is Full of Abandoned Cars Today
Tow trucks are trying to clear the road.
By
Christopher Bonanos
throwing shade
July 28, 2021
Here’s How Hard Los Angeles Has Made It to Install a Bus Shelter
A new design for a tiny sunshade is about the best anyone can do.
By
Alissa Walker
safer streets
June 3, 2021
Grim New Numbers: Traffic Deaths Highest Since 2007
Speeding, mostly, seems to be the cause.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
May 27, 2021
Where Did All the Yellow Cabs Go?
Nearly two-thirds of New York’s taxis are gone, and a lot of them may never come back.
By
Jack Denton
infrastructure watch
May 20, 2021
The BQE Is Still Falling Apart, and There’s No Real Plan to Fix It
The outlook is grim for the expressway, but only stopgap measures are underway.
By
Christopher Robbins
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