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!
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
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.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
DoorDash finally pays the piper (Streetsblog gets action). Plus other news.
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.
Local lawmakers in New York state are all over the map when it comes to addressing unsafe and illegal e-motos in their communities.
President Trump at Gracie Mansion (he’s not moving in … yet). Plus other news.
