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.
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.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
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.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
