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Transportation
the group portrait
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Pilgrimage to the Meadowlands (Taylor’s Version)
How to get an army of Swifties to the MetLife Stadium — and its parking lot.
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Zach Schiffman
and
Sara Messinger
street view
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getting around
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getting around
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A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master Plans
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Alissa Walker
ohio train derailment
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Alissa Walker
getting around
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Why It Costs So Much to Build Our Subways
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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).
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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
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Katie McDonough
getting around
Aug. 26, 2022
6 Hours and 42 Minutes of Insults and Minor Meltdowns
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
street view
May 5, 2021
Could We Really Get a Good Penn Station?
Yet another wisp of hope.
By
Justin Davidson
battery parking tales
Apr. 30, 2021
An Electric Car in High-rise Manhattan: How Long Is Your Extension Cord?
The realities of a plug-in car when you live in the Financial District.
By
Paul Greenberg
developments
Apr. 20, 2021
Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California Development
Not in my backyard, says Planet Earth, backed by a judge.
By
Alissa Walker
brooklyn bridge
Apr. 8, 2021
The Brooklyn Bridge Finally Gets Its Own Bike Path! Except …
It’s gonna be a little snug.
By
Alissa Walker
street view
Mar. 10, 2021
Standstill Traffic May Be the Only Thing Keeping Crash-Death Numbers Down
And until we redesign our streets, those numbers will keep going up.
By
Alissa Walker
bad air
Feb. 16, 2021
Maybe You Should’ve Been Wearing a Mask in the Subway All Along
Air pollution at some stations is so bad that it’s like inhaling wildfire smoke.
By
Alissa Walker
pedalling
Feb. 12, 2021
Here’s a Handsome Solution to New York’s Bike-Parking Crisis
Oonee’s pods can securely store seven bikes in one car’s worth of parking.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Dec. 22, 2020
Can a Worker-Owned App Pull Drivers From Uber and Lyft?
A cooperative tries to revolutionize ride sharing.
By
Sarah Jones
street view
Dec. 10, 2020
The E-Scooter Is Part of a Balanced Transit Diet
And it should—with caution and regulation—be welcomed.
By
Justin Davidson
getting around
Nov. 5, 2020
Uber and Lyft Just Bought a Law in California
The companies spent $200 million to pass Proposition 22, which establishes gig-economy drivers as a new employment class.
By
Alissa Walker