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.
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.”
