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!
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.