The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Kevin Duggan’s lead story today is the definition of blockbuster: The NYPD has gone back to an old — and much maligned — strategy of giving cyclists criminal summonses instead of regular traffic tickets. We’re just getting a grasp on what this could mean for our court system and working cyclists, let alone riders already being caught in the new dragnet.
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.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.