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What if they held a bus oversight hearing and all we heard was complaints from drivers? Welcome to the New York City Council, where no one holds city and state officials accountable for slow bus speeds, but everyone wants to complain about getting tickets for parking in bus lanes.
Also in today’s newsletter, Double Duty Duggan covered a late meeting at which Queens community board members begged the Parks Department to let them drive inside Forest Park, even though a roadway is much safer without them.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.