The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’re ending the week with some great news: The Mamdani administration will tweak the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge bike and footpath to make it easier for both users. It’s not a huge project, but it reveals that the mayor understands how tiny little design flaws — like that missing one-block protected bike lane on Ashland Place, among so many others — must be fixed.
He also understands that just because cyclists congregate somewhere — in this case, at a venerable mosque in the East Village — it’s not a police matter, as Sophia Lebowitz reports lower down in this newsletter.
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.
