Ikea, the Swedish retail chain, showed its green credentials yesterday by giving all 9,000 of its UK workers a free bicycle. The store handed out the £139 fold-up bike and offered a 15 per cent subsidy on public transport at its Christmas breakfast.The bicycle is the store's second high-profile green gesture this year following its decision to introduce a charge for plastic bags and encourage reusable ones. Plastic bag take-up at checkouts is down by 97 per cent.
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The Adams administration is fudging the numbers to overstate its daylighting progress after the mayor's 2023 pledge to do 1,000 intersections per year.
Mayor Adams's narcissism was on rare display at the Liberty victory parade on Thursday. Plus other news.
Watch a trip from Main Street to Hudson Yards from the 7-operator's-eye-view. It's very Zen.
Mayor Adams’s modest progress towards improving visibility at intersections is not sufficient to keep New Yorkers safe.
