Truly committed car-haters try one scheme after another to make using a car in the city expensive, uncomfortable and, where they can, illegal.

We are going to see more people crowding the same old streets. We will need to find a way to ration street space and improve mass transit or we will become immobilized by gridlock.

Working New Yorkers are off to a very rough year, and the looming closure of bus and subway lines across the city may prove the cruelest cut of all.

New York State Senator Pedro Espada, ardent opponent of bridge tolls in the past, has now proposed a $2 toll on the East River Bridges.

By charging drivers a fee for driving into the central business district, we can prevent crippling service cuts and ensure that the MTA has a stable source of revenue for years to come.

One of the key elements of the New York City metro area's dynamism is its mass transit system. Destroy that critical infrastructure and you begin to destroy the entire region's economy.