The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
There’s so much news in today’s newsletter, but the lead stories are out of Albany, where Austin C. Jefferson did a deep dive on Gov. Hochul’s victory over the legislature on her attempt to make driving cheaper.
And Editor Gersh Kuntzman tossed in an analysis of the “Stop Super Speeders” proposal — and how it could easily fail if the details aren’t nailed down.
We also have coverage of the Dean and Bergen bike boulevards and, of course, today’s headlines.
Check back for a breaking story at 8 am, too, but shhhh! we can’t tell you about it yet.
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.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?