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  1. getting around
    Amtrak’s New Acela Fleet Is Languishing in a Rail YardAll dressed up with nowhere to go on the Northeast Corridor.
    By Alissa Walker
  2. street view
    Congestion Pricing’s Pitfalls and How to Avoid ThemLessons from London’s 20 years of experience.
    By Justin Davidson
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    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
  4. getting around
    The Case for Taxing Vehicles by WeightMeet Deion Sanders’s Ford F-650 super-truck.
    By Alissa Walker
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    The Off-Peak Rider Is the Future of the SubwayThe pandemic changed how we commute. Time to invest accordingly.
    By Alissa Walker
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    Meghan and Harry Were in a Two-Hour Car Chase Across ManhattanThe pursuit by “highly aggressive paparazzi” nearly caused multiple crashes, according to a spokesperson.
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘We Were Riding in a City That Simply Hadn’t Existed Just a Few Years Earlier’Reflecting on a decade of Citi Bike with a dozen New Yorkers who made it happen.
    By Alissa Walker
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    We’re Another Step Closer to Congestion PricingThe Federal Highway Administration has given the plan its blessing, even if New Jersey politicians are crying.
    By Alissa Walker
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    Free the Curb!Talking to Henry Grabar about how parking ate our cities, and how to get them back.
    By Alissa Walker
  10. getting around
    The Small Electric Car Is an Endangered Species in AmericaGM is killing the Chevy Bolt to go all-in on supersized EVs.
    By Alissa Walker
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    Timothée Chalamet and Martin Scorsese Rode the SubwayThe MTA is back! Period.
    By Clio Chang
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    This Is What the End of the MetroCard Machine Looks LikeThe new OMNY kiosk is on display at MTA headquarters.
    By Clio Chang
  13. infrastructure
    Heavier Vehicles in Aging Parking Garages Are a Recipe for DisasterAn engineer sees the risk of more collapses like the one on Ann Street.
    By Alissa Walker
  14. getting around
    L.A. Cops Have a Helicopter ProblemThe city’s aerial law-enforcement fleet is more wasteful, and just as pointless, as Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s private-jet habits.
    By Alissa Walker
  15. getting around
    Elon Musk Could Ruin Your Commute (Again)The Twitter CEO’s planned API paywall could be bad news for the MTA’s service alerts.
    By Alissa Walker
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    This Penn Station Plan May Be the One Everyone Can Live WithAssuming the Garden doesn’t move, most of the stakeholders are gravitating toward a new scheme.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. getting around
    Uber Says It’s Trying to Fix the E-bike Battery CrisisThe company also helped create it.
    By Alissa Walker
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    A New Way to Track How the City MovesA pilot of street-light-mounted sensors can tell a lot about building safer streets. Will it matter?
    By Alissa Walker
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    It’s Already Been a Deadly Year for New York CyclistsAnd we haven’t even reached peak riding season yet.
    By Alissa Walker
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    Where Are All Those Fake License Plates Coming From?Thank lax regulation and sketchy dealerships in New Jersey for at least some of them.
    By Clio Chang
  21. getting around
    What Does the Potential Demise of Lyft Mean for Citi Bike?The perils of tying a crucial public service to Silicon Valley whims.
    By Alissa Walker
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    New York’s War on Seating Continues at Grand Central MadisonThe MTA is voting on conduct rules for the LIRR train hall that include a 90-minute time limit on its benches.
    By Diana Budds
  23. getting around
    Will Train Daddy Finally Get Us High-Speed Rail?Andy Byford is joining Amtrak to oversee the system’s high-speed network.
    By Alissa Walker
  24. getting around
    When Wealthy People Collide on the SlopesA Vail instructor on Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial, the “skier’s code,” and keeping the peace on the powder.
    By Clio Chang
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    Los Angeles’s Metro Is Using Classical Music as a WeaponThe loud volume is part of the agency’s effort to push unhoused people off the system.
    By Alissa Walker
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    The La Guardia AirTrain Is Dead. Now What?It’s a bus lane to the airport for now, and maybe a hard-to-build subway extension in the far, far future.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  27. boring news
    Elon Musk Is Building a MontessoriThe Boring Company’s Texas preschool will educate the children of the hard-core.
    By Alissa Walker
  28. getting around
    The New Taxi Commissioner Is Doing an Undercover-Boss ThingAnd if you manage to hail David Do, the ride is free.
    By Clio Chang
  29. please be advised
    What the Prospect Park Loop Really NeedsCompetitive cyclists must be banned from public space and possibly the entire city.
    By Katie McDonough
  30. getting around
    A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master PlansPart 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
    By Alissa Walker
  31. getting around
    Did Tesla Just Admit Its Self-Driving Feature Is Dangerous?The company is issuing a 300,000-vehicle voluntary recall in the form of a mass software update.
    By Alissa Walker
  32. getting around
    Police Crashes Cost New Yorkers a Lot of MoneyAnd the growing number of NYPD SUVs on the road isn’t helping.
    By Alissa Walker
  33. ohio train derailment
    What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio?Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
    By Alissa Walker
  34. getting around
    The Manhattan Parents Who Won’t Let Their Teens Outside AloneMom does drop-off, a sitter does pickup. An Uber takes care of the rest.
    By Julia Edelstein
  35. getting around
    Why It Costs So Much to Build Our SubwaysAn NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  36. getting around
    My EV Is Big and StrongBy rolling out larger and faster offerings, the electric-vehicle industry is going after “the boys.”
    By Alissa Walker
  37. getting around
    Delancey Is Getting a Desperately Needed ‘Road Diet’To the tune of $21 million in federal funds.
    By Clio Chang
  38. getting around
    Why Is the Floor of the Oculus Already Crumbling?Seven years in, the marble slabs are chipping and flaking. It didn’t have to be this way.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. getting around
    An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental DisasterWe can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. getting around
    Al Roker Is at War With His TeslaHe can’t get in, and he can’t get out.
    By Alissa Walker
  41. artifact
    The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank CanvasAs the clock runs down on this ubiquitous object, a collector walks us through its many variations.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. street life
    Riding Around Tompkins Square Park With the Citi Bike BoyzJerome Peel will jump over anything with the 45-pound clunker.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  43. getting around
    Make 2023 the Year of the BusCori Bush’s first-of-its-kind BRT bill is a start.
    By Alissa Walker
  44. urban fauna
    Los Angeles’s Celebrity Mountain Lion Was Also Its HostageWithout an easy way to cross the freeways that bisect his natural habitat, P-22’s life in the city was a lonely one.
    By Alissa Walker
  45. getting around
    The Status Submarine’s Time Has Come“If you’re just going on a yacht in some fancy place, that’s one thing,” says Ray Dalio of going bullish on submersibles.
    By Clio Chang
  46. getting around
    ‘Let’s Play Getting Doored!’Lego and Playmobil’s ambulance sets each come with an injured cyclist. But don’t worry — they’re smiling.
    By Clio Chang
  47. getting around
    Eric Garcetti’s Broken SidewalksIf you want to know what kind of mayor he’s been for Los Angeles, just look down.
    By Alissa Walker
  48. getting around
    In Praise of the Subway Exit GateThe MTA may redesign it to stop fare evaders, but it’s the only thing that lets parents ride the subway in the first place.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  49. getting around
    Where Is the Tesla Bus?Elon Musk announced it alongside the Tesla Semi all those years ago. So what gives?
    By Alissa Walker
  50. getting around
    The Great G-Wagen Sell-OffA looming recession and a crypto crash seem to be driving many to offload their status-symbol SUVs at deep discounts.
    By Jack Denton
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