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Hubba Lubba Dub Dub: DOT Announces Micro Delivery Hubs To Start This Summer
The pilot program will create designated areas for trucks to unload packages to then be delivered by workers on cargo bikes or other small vehicles, officials said.
April 7, 2023
Road Death Stalks New York City on Passover With Three People Killed by Drivers
Two pedestrians and a cyclist were killed in a spate of bloodshed on Wednesday night that included two hit-and-run drivers.
April 6, 2023
Discipline for Recklessly Driving DOT Employee — But What Discipline?
The Department of Transportation has told a Queens Council member that it has taken "action" against an employee whom the pol spotted driving recklessly and aggressively in Midtown last month — but the agency declined several opportunities to reveal "action" it took.
April 6, 2023
Wider BQE Could Be ‘Intrusion’ on Brooklyn Bridge Park, Ex-Transportation Leaders Warn
The city says it is only considering whether to widen the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the BQE between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street into three, 12-foot lanes in each direction, with additional shoulders — a configuration that would require the roadway to be widened from roughly 34 feet to 56.
April 5, 2023
Wednesday’s Headlines: A Wild Day in New York Edition
Yes, Tuesday was a wild day in Lower Manhattan, but we prefer to look forward ... to the third and final part of Jesse Coburn's three-part series on temporary plate fraud that has turned the city into a Wild West of ghost cars. Plus other news.
April 5, 2023
DELAY AHEAD: Upper West Side Panel Wants DOT to ‘Study’ Protected Bike Lanes
Let's study protected bike lanes, says a community board, ignoring that the city has been building protected bike lane for two decades.
April 5, 2023
Council (Minus Speaker Adams and Transportation Committee Chair) Tells State Lawmakers it Supports Sammy’s Law
It’s unclear why neither Brooks-Powers nor Adams signed onto the letter.
March 31, 2023
Friday’s Headlines: A Stop Light is Just the Start Edition
Trump who? The big news in our world was that the Department of Transportation relented and agreed to install a traffic light at the Astoria intersection where 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was killed in February. Plus other news.
March 31, 2023
Astoria Residents are Angry About Street Safety. Will the NYPD Listen?
“I want to be able to brag about Astoria. I want to be able to say our community has a good relationship with the 114th. They listened. Here are statistics," one resident said after feeling encouraged.
March 31, 2023
RECKLESS ABANDON: Driver With History of Speeding Kills Man in Queens
A driver with a dozen speeding tickets in a year hit and killed a man early on Thursday morning in Queens, police said — again highlighting the failure of the city to rein in the most dangerous drivers in town.
March 30, 2023
