The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The mayor is a fraud. The governor is a fraud. Our legislative leaders are all frauds. Well, what other conclusion can you draw after you read today’s stories? One is about Mayor Adams’s failure to improve the lives of bus riders. Another is about Gov. Hochul’s continued waffling over holding drivers accountable for sticking us with the bill for their driving. And a third is about Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins blocking necessary transit improvements.
Frauds!
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Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
