Thursday’s Headlines: Bombs Away Edition

Meanwhile, here’s the news:

• We’ve been critical of State Senator Marty Golden’s poor record on street safety, but others will likely have a problem with the eight-term incumbent’s view that people who support transgender rights are “like Martians from Mars,” which he uttered at a debate on Tuesday night. (NYDN, NY Post) Apparently, he also called for militarizing the border. (Fight Back Bay Ridge, via Twitter)
• Staten Island-Bay Ridge congressional candidate Max Rose did two things wrong yesterday: He made an illegal U-turn that the Staten Island Advance caught on camera. But much more troubling as far as Streetsblog is concerned, Rose released a campaign ad with him at the wheel of a car demanding highway expansion on Staten Island. Yes, the ad also called for better public transit, but we have long decried the “windshield-eye-view” of the world that politicians often have (looking at you, Joe Crowley and Adriano Espaillat). Being in a car, alone, is the single worst way to connect to the car-free majority.
• Apparently, the MTA is in such a huge money hole that congestion pricing can’t even pull it out. (NYDN) And, apparently, service cuts or fare hikes are coming. (amNY) Yes, it’s a death spiral. (NY1)
• What does the NYPD do when a videotape shows a cop causing a cyclist to crash? It suppresses the video, of course, according to this story in the New York Post.
• The good news is that New York City Transit boss isn’t going to ban us from eating roast chicken on the subway — but he does want us to be neat about it. (NY Post, NY Times)
• In case you missed it yesterday, I made a video at a bad intersection on the Lower East Side.
• And, finally, is this really how drivers think of us (yes)?

cyclists are so fucking annoying, get your ass in the bike lane before i run your dumb ass over

— baena (@campbSOUP) October 24, 2018