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Last night, we sent Kevin Duggan to what we expected to be a dull exercise in municipal governance — a meeting of the mayor’s government efficiency commission — but he came back with a corker of a story: It turns out, every member of the public who spoke at the hearing wants the Mamdani administration to cut red tape … and the only people comfortable with the current bureaucratic process were the politicians!
Read all about it below, plus today’s headlines and another great story that justifies our decision to reset our Mamdani-O-Meter back to zero permanently until the mayor makes Bedford Avenue safe again.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.