The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is about a new design on the raised bike lanes on the Grand Concourse that the city says won’t be filled with parked cars (but, of course, when we checked them out, they, um, were).
Meanwhile, we posted a bunch of crucial stories yesterday, including a story from Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson about how the powerful Assembly Transportation Committee chairman might have lost his seat to a pro-bike upstart.
Also, the Mamdani administration again cracked down on an allegedly bad delivery app.
And our editor is in Ithaca today for some reason (click below to find out why).
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.