News broke yesterday that our Train Daddy is now going to be Tube Daddy — yes, Andy Byford is going to run Transport for London.
The Post played it straight. The Daily News played up the magnitude of the job — Byford won't merely be running the bus and subway system, but also have a hand in the "street network, taxi service, trams and river ferries," too. The Times played up Byford's epic clashes with Gov. Cuomo. And, oddly, NY1's story by Dan Rivoli had a London dateline.
Here was the rest of the news from yesterday:
- The car-loving New York Times did a whole story about the glory of the SUV, yet writer Tom Voelk devoted not a single word to the commensurate rise in deaths outside these assault cars. Where is the public editor when you need her?
- The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is the latest group to create its own rider survey. Take it, here. (And, in case you missed it, the group's executive director, Nick Sifuentes, had a Crain's op-ed the other day about regional planning.)
- Chicago was way behind New York City on open streets, but it's way ahead of us on opening streets for restaurants (NY Post). Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio called his dithering a "badge of honor" in a comment to Streetsblog (The Post also covered that, minus the sauciness).
- Meanwhile, if you scroll down, Gothamist broke the news that the City Council will today take up a measure to — again! — supersede the mayor and create open streets for restaurants.
- Gov. Cuomo said he had a nice talk with President Trump about infrastructure (NY Post, WSJ) — even as a watchdog group said his Port Authority is wasting money left and right (Streetsblog).
- Mark Hallum at amNY reported more evidence that subway ridership is increasing by the day, but it's still very very low.
