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    A Postcard From Driverless San FranciscoUnexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
    By Theodore Gioia
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    A Frank Talk About Thanksgiving TravelTips from a Port Authority veteran on flying out during this week’s storms.
    By Clio Chang
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    Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer“Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking the city to go after the same group of people.”
    By Clio Chang
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    Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the OutsideThe indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Mostly Monochrome OMNY Kiosk Is HereStainless-steel machine delivers (in our extremely unscientific test) stainless performance.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Deadly School-Zone CrossingThe deaths of a 7-year-old in Fort Greene and a Woodhaven crossing guard were preventable and predictable.
    By Clio Chang
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    Welcome to the McGuinness Boulevard Parking Lot–Bike Lane–Loading ZoneThe mayor made a mess of the planned redesign. Now everyone’s confused.
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘We’re Fighting Over Inches’New York cyclists on their near misses and collisions on the city’s bridges.
    As told to John Surico
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    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Janette Sadik-Khan on Getting Congestion Pricing Right‘We don’t look ready.”
    By Justin Davidson
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    VanMoofers After the BankruptcyWill the Dutch e-bike’s acquisition by a new company be enough to restore riders’ faith?
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
    By Clio Chang
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    Why Subway Surfers Find It So Hard to QuitAfter four surfing deaths this year, Michael stopped. But so many kids he knows are still chasing the high.
    By Joshua Needelman
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    On New York’s First 110-Degree Summer Day, What Will Break First?Asphalt like molasses, grounded planes at midday, sun-buckled railroad tracks: a sweat-inducing list.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    What’s in the Subway Water That Drips on Your Head?A semi-scientific inquiry.
    By Clio Chang
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    Why Are Citi Bike’s Electric Bikes Always Broken?Some blame teen riders, but it’s likely the bikes themselves.
    By John Surico
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    A Makeover for Third AvenueMore bike and bus lanes on the Upper East Side. It’s better!
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    So Is the BQE Going to Collapse?Talking to the former chief engineer of the DOT about highway nightmare scenarios and the long, long road to a real fix.
    By Clio Chang
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    New Subway and Rail Tunnels Are Coming! Eventually.Maybe in 2035. Or later.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look PromisingCould they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?
    By Justin Davidson
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    An E-Bike Trade-in Program That No Delivery Workers Have Heard OfUber’s programs to get risky e-bikes off the streets have not reached — or convinced — many food-delivery workers who use them.
    By Gaby Del Valle
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    You May Soon Have to Pay More to Drive That SUV in New YorkA state bill proposes that owners pay much more for their heavier (and deadlier) vehicles.
    By Alissa Walker
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    The Murky Regulations Governing SubmersiblesA maritime historian and former merchant mariner on the Titan disaster.
    By Clio Chang
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    Who Is the Family Fighting a Street-Safety Proposal?A campaign against redesigning McGuinness Boulevard can mostly be traced to the Argentos, a major film-industry family.
    By Clio Chang
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    ‘It Wouldn’t Bring Back My Son, But Other Lives Would Be Saved’For the third year in a row, the mothers behind Sammy’s Law are proposing that the state allow NYC to control its own speed limits.
    By Julianne Cuba
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    Amtrak’s New Acela Fleet Is Languishing in a Rail YardAll dressed up with nowhere to go on the Northeast Corridor.
    By Alissa Walker
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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