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De Blasio Gives DOT Permission to Put Safety Above Community Board Whims
When DOT allows community boards to veto street safety projects, streets aren't as safe for walking and biking as they could be.
December 16, 2015
Mayor’s Stand on Community Boards and Housing Should Apply to Streets Too
With community boards across the city voting against City Hall's affordable housing initiative, Mayor de Blasio is taking a stand.
December 10, 2015
Trottenberg Announces Plaza Equity Program at Plaza de Las Americas Reveal
Just eight months after the groundbreaking ceremony, officials held a ribbon-cutting this morning at Plaza de Las Americas, an impressive new public space in Washington Heights. Also today, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced a City Hall initiative to assist plazas in neighborhoods without the resources of a major business improvement district.
November 23, 2015
DOT: NYC to Install Record Number of Protected Bike Lanes in 2015
Think DOT's bicycle program has lost its mojo? Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg begs to differ, and she made her case today at an event highlighting bike projects that are now in progress or have recently been completed.
September 22, 2015
Trottenberg: DOT Will Soon Propose Amsterdam Avenue Bike Lane
DOT will release a long-awaited proposal for a bike lane and other traffic calming measures on Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side this September or October, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show this morning.
August 14, 2015
Bike-Share Arrives in Queens as Citi Bike Marks Its First Expansion
Citi Bike's first station in Queens is now up and running, with 90 more coming to Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bedford-Stuyvesant by the end of August. It's Citi Bike's first expansion since launching a little more than two years ago.
August 5, 2015
Construction Begins on First Phase of Transforming Queens Blvd
The redesign of Queens Boulevard, long one of New York's most notorious death traps, is underway.
July 23, 2015
Prospect Park’s West Drive Is Now Permanently Car-Free
A week after Central Park went mostly car-free, today marked the beginning of the permanent car-free zone on the west side of Prospect Park [PDF].
July 6, 2015
Team de Blasio Makes Its Case for a One-Year “Uber Cap”
The de Blasio administration made its case for temporarily restricting the growth of licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber at a City Council hearing this morning. With congestion in Manhattan getting worse, City Hall's plan is to cap the number of new for-hire vehicles on city streets for the next year while it studies the impact of the industry on traffic.
June 30, 2015