The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The governor takes her car insurance reduction scheme to the friendliest audience yet — car freaks — as she heads to the New York International Auto Show to claim that fraud is driving up the cost of insurance. Um, you sure it’s not the 400,000 crashes that happen every year in New York State? Or all the drivers who don’t register their cars in New York even though they live her? Or the fact that Uber and Lyft put 100,000 more cars on the roads of New York City?
See, we can play this game, too. That’s why Kevin Duggan’s latest story — about how Gov. Hochul is merely following Uber’s playlist to make New York more like Florida — is so crucial to your understanding of how the most powerful and wealthy forces in our society are seeking to change state law for their benefit.
Beyond that, we have the great “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz and Kelly McGuinness discussing the future of autonomous vehicles, a look at the rise of low-traffic neighborhoods, plus today’s headlines.
And check back at 5 a.m. for another Mamdani administration exclusive.
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.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
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.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
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.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
