We got a tip yesterday about an errant driver hogging a curbside spot in a residential area:
So, outside my house is a street with two hour parking. Today a Jaguarwith dealer plates was parked there all day. When I checked, it wasbecause there was an FD placard on the car.
No news there, right? Except our tipster was Streetsblog LA's Damien Newton, and the placard in question was emblazoned with the logo of the FDNY Uniformed Firefighters Association.
Placards without borders. Gotta love it.
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The price of a yearly Citi Bike membership has grown by 77 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars since the bike-share program launched 2013, the Independent Budget Office said.
And more people bike than drive on the Brooklyn street!
The DOT is once again slow rolling the completion of public charging infrastructure as the city continues to face a battery fire crisis.
The Urban Institute found an overall increase in capital investment in ground transportation — mostly on highways — and flat investment in public transit.
It was horrific, it was depraved, it was predictable. And it will happen again. Plus other news.
Zohran Mamdani likes taking the train and riding a Citi Bike — but the demands of being New York City’s mayor may not be compatible with his transit habit.
