The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
TGIF! We have one thing to celebrate (and another to shake our fists at) on this hazy Friday morning:
Sophia Lebowitz learned that the City Council will vote Monday on a package of bills to regulate the app-based delivery industry. One of these includes a bill that will finally close the “Instacart loophole,” where workers for grocery delivery apps were not included under the city’s restaurant-centric minimum wage law that went into effect in 2023.
We first reported on this back in November, paying special notice to how this impacted the city’s primarily French speaking Black immigrants.
Our video coverage won the Streetsblog team a Deadline Club Award for digital video reporting earlier this year. Watch the video here, starring Sophia Lebowitz and edited by Emily Lipstein.
Also in today’s news: Citi Bike riders are pissed about the 15mph speed cap that’s been implemented on the bike-share company’s e-bikes. Riders told Streetsblog summer specialist Jonah Schwarz that they’re now unable to safely accelerate to move out of the way in dicey car traffic situations, since the bikes don’t seem to speed up enough, no matter how fast riders pedal.
Related: If any Streetsblog readers have a wheel-on smart bicycle trainer that they’d be willing to loan or donate to our team for an upcoming video experiment… please email emily@streetsblog.org
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.”
