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Today’s newsletter doesn’t have much breaking news from over the weekend, so scroll down to catch a story that the Department of Transportation put out on an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon: Summer Streets in not expanding this year.
Mayor Mamdani could have made our Summer Streets the envy of the world, of course, but chose not to. Maybe next year.
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.