Erik Bascome | tbascome@siadvance.com

Erik Bascome is the transportation reporter for the Staten Island Advance and SILive.com. He covers a range of crucial topics for Staten Islanders from the borough’s nonstop traffic to roadway redesigns, automated enforcement and commuting via mass transit. Since joining the paper in September 2016, he has reported extensively on major transportation issues including the borough’s MTA express bus network redesign, the expansion of New York City’s school zone speed camera program, the opening of the new Bayonne and Goethals bridges and recurring service disruptions at the Staten Island Ferry. Bascome is also the co-creator and host of the Staten Island Advance’s From the Scene podcast, which gives listeners an inside look at the biggest stories in the borough through exclusive conversations with the reporters who cover them. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from SUNY Oneonta in May 2016.