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
This year, both chambers in the state legislature have lots of open seats with brisk competition. So now, more than ever, you need StreetsPAC’s endorsements.
Students at Hunter College asked for a new hangout spot and the school’s administration, the Department of Transportation and the local community said yes. Plus, it’s bringing pedestrian space to a spot where cars are parking illegally.
The city plans to deprive eastern Queens of greenway safety upgrades it’s bringing to the western parts of the borough.
This year, both chambers in the state legislature have lots of open seats with brisk competition. So now, more than ever, you need StreetsPAC’s endorsements.
Students at Hunter College asked for a new hangout spot and the school’s administration, the Department of Transportation and the local community said yes. Plus, it’s bringing pedestrian space to a spot where cars are parking illegally.
Sure, we spend a lot of time patting ourselves on the back, but there are two more reasons. Plus other news.
How much will this thing cost, and who’s paying?
