Mary Wisniewski

While big vehicles are safer for people on the inside, they're more deadly for those on the outside. But there's a movement to require safer automobile designs and create disincentives to owning oversized vehicles.

Now is not the time for the nation’s second-largest public transit system to go backwards, with conditions that scare people away people from using buses and trains.

The Crosstown plan threatened to ram a multi-lane highway through the heart of the city, but fired-up residents helped stop it.