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Monday’s Headlines: Paradise Lost Edition
Well, our editor is back from New Orleans and he won't shut up about what a great time he had — except for one thing: The Big Easy doesn't live up to its name for cyclists. The Crescent City could be a paradise — it's almost entirely flat and the weather cooperates almost the entire year — but there's a dearth of protected bike lanes, gas is $1.89 a gallon, and drivers speed around like they own the place (which, alas, they do).
January 28, 2019
Friday’s Headlines: Laissez Les Bons-Temps Rouler Edition
Our editor flew to New Orleans last night and could not believe that there is no public transportation option after 9:20 p.m. from Louis Armstrong Airport to his scheduled appointment with a Sazerac and Brice Miller at the Spotted Cat on Frenchmen Street.
January 25, 2019
Thursday’s Headlines: Busy News Day Edition
What a crazy day yesterday was: A City Council Member blasted his colleagues' hopes of legalizing e-scooters right in front of them at a press conference. Then Mayor de Blasio tossed cold water on the whole legalization thing anyway. And then we were leaked a copy of a preliminary — or "outdated," if you believe the MTA — set of painful service adjustments that might have to be made to accommodate Gov. Cuomo's supposedly painless L-train repair. (The Post later followed our mega-scoop above).
January 24, 2019
Wednesday’s Headlines: Bikey Day in the Committee Room Edition
It's a big day for news: The Streetsblog team will be double-teaming today's City Council Transportation Committee hearing on e-bikes and e-scooters and pre-hearing rallies in favor of the devices that Mayor de Blasio, citing no statistical evidence, says are unsafe.
January 23, 2019
Tuesday’s Headlines: Protesting Whoopi Edition
A group of Families for Safe Streets members will be picketing outside the ABC studios on W. 66th Street where "The View" is broadcast today at 8 a.m. The members — all of whom have lost loved ones to road violence — were motivated after co-host Whoopi Goldberg berated Mayor de Blasio on the show last week with inaccurate comments about bike lanes and road safety.
January 22, 2019
Monday’s Headlines: Martin Luther King Jr. Edition
He had a dream. And it included equitable transit.
January 21, 2019
Friday’s Headlines: Democracy Dies in Deference Edition
Whoopi Goldberg landed on Thursday's wood of the Post for her outrageous anti-street-safety comments,, so naturally she doubled-down, kicking off "The View" with more anti-bike comments that the Post lapped up. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio clearly didn't want to turn this into a two-day story, and declined to answer substantive questions from the press corps at his Thursday availability — even heaping praise on Goldberg as a "great New Yorker" who was "raising valid concerns" about the bike lanes that de Blasio says he believes in. "Great New Yorker"? Goldberg drives in from her West Orange, N.J. mansion for work every day then believes that arduous journey by luxury SUV gives her the right to tell the mayor how he should manage the streets for the rest of us who have to live here and pay the taxes.
January 18, 2019
Thursday’s Headlines: That’s What You Get, Mayor, For Making Whoopi
That Whoopi Goldberg story. Wow. Everyone covered the news that Mayor de Blasio went on ABC's "The View" to tout his national bona-fides and ended up getting lectured by an uninformed, fact-ignoring talk show host about how bike lanes are "screwing up" the city. The clip is here. After you're done and your blood pressure drops back below 300, enjoy our full roundup:
January 17, 2019
Wednesday’s Headlines: Maybe the L-Pocalypse Wasn’t Such a Bad Idea After All
Yesterday was the opposite of a slow news day, which means the Post won't have to fill the paper with animal stories today (um, not so fast). So let's get down to business.
January 16, 2019
Tuesday’s Headlines: Day Two in Albany Edition
ALBANY — Streetsblog's David Meyer and Gersh Kuntzman remain in the state capital, where Gov. Cuomo will deliver his State of the State address later today. To recap, we spent all day Monday interviewing lawmakers about their bizarre reluctance to get behind congestion pricing, which could create a new stream of funding for mass transit while discouraging automobile use in Manhattan (the term "win-win" comes to mind).
January 15, 2019