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Wednesday’s Headlines: A Huge Night For Livable Streets Edition
By Gersh Kuntzman
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
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Dems Push for Guardrails to Shield Federal Transportation Grants From Trump Meddling
By David Meyer
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
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New York’s Fined-est: Meet the Reckless Cops With Thousands in Tickets
By Sammy Sussman
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
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Press Boxed: MTA Boss Accuses Amtrak’s Byford Of ‘Gamesmanship’ With Leaked Letter About Penn Station
By Dave Colon
Memo of agreement? To Janno Lieber, the Amtrak offer sounds more like a memo of disagreement!
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The Dark Web: The City Can’t Control Online Sales Of Illegal E-Scooters And E-Motos
By Sophia Lebowitz
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.
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Power Outage: MTA Delays Bus Electrification Amid Manufacturer Challenges
By Dave Colon
American manufacturers have failed to create top-notch plug-in buses.
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Tuesday’s Headlines: Does Zohran Mamdani Know Billy Idol Edition
By Gersh Kuntzman
We asked Hizzoner about the citizen idling program, and it wasn’t clear he knew all the details. Plus other news.
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PEDESTRIANIZE NOW! Financial District Businesses Want Space for People Not Cars
By Kevin Duggan and Emily Smith
Lower Manhattan merchants see green in proposals to pedestrianize the Financial District.
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Driverless Cars Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives. But We Must Treat Them Like Aviation — Not Like Cars
By Marco Conner
Commercial passenger aviation has nearly zero passenger deaths per year compared to about 40,000 roadway deaths. That’s not a function of driving being inherently riskier — it is a function of what our leaders decide is “safe enough.”
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