The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today, for the second time in as many weeks, Charles Komanoff leads our website with another exclusive data analysis that shows that the South Bronx is not being inundated with cars and trucks, as congestion pricing opponents speciously predicted.
Does that mean we should ignore The Bronx? No, thonx! We love the Boogie Down and the MTA and city and state departments of Transportation need to do more to build livable, safe and pollution-free streets there.
But for now, at least, congestion pricing is one less worry.
Plus other news. Have a great weekend, let’s go, Mets, and wish our editor luck with his latest bout with Covid.
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.
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.