The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Once again, Streetsblog reporters are killing it! Today, Sophia Lebowitz reports on an Uber earnings call — yes, we listen to earnings calls! — that revealed that the app-taxi giant isn’t worried about competition from Waymo … because the presence of Waymo in a city only increases Uber’s business.
And from Albany, we learn that Uber is so intent on influencing lawmakers to support Gov. Hochul’s insurance ploy that the company’s lackeys are sending forged testimonials from dead people! Austin C. Jefferson earned his week’s salary with this one story!
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
