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
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.
