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Some business groups get it. Up in The Bronx, a former Giuliani deputy mayor who became a bakery owner rallied his business buddies to oppose a bus lane on Fordham Road. But yesterday in Flatbush, a business improvement district demanded better buses, accurately pointing out that good buses is good business!
Dave Colon has the story.
Meanwhile, in the weeks since we reported on nightmare cop James Giovansanti, we’ve been hearing from Staten Island residents who have had run-ins with the reckless officer. J.K. Trotter fills us in.
Plus so much more news (including a cliffhanger — will we win a Deadline Club award tonight?):
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.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?