The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
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.
DOT and the MTA are finally getting ready to expand automatic enforcement to ding drivers who block bike lanes.
Video shows Con Ed workers illegally parking, illegally idling and illegally defacing their license plate — and NYPD letting them off the hook.
One school on Clarkson Streets has safe, easy-to-use gates. Plus other news.
Video obtained by Streetsblog shows the traumatic moment of impact.
All trucks should have side guards! Yet the city only mandates some trucks get the life-saving, easy-to-install barriers.
DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues are getting makeovers that will give bus and bike riders their fair share of the road.
Another Central Park tragedy. Plus more news.
