The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
As many readers know, Streetsblog reporters Austin C. Jefferson and Kevin Duggan have been laser-focused on covering Gov. Hochul’s effort to reduce supposedly high car insurance costs by making it harder for some crash victims to get proper compensation for their life-changing injuries.
Well, after three months, it appears that the state legislature has blinked and gone along with most of Hochul’s Uber-backed effort — though it’s not even clear if auto insurance premiums will even drop.
Jefferson has the Day 1 pass — but believe us, more coverage is coming.
Also in today’s newsletter, a move to expand Fair Fares, a move to expand green space on Park Avenue, and a move to un-expand Nassau County’s e-bike ban.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.