The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
One thing we learned earlier this month is that if we post even a fairly tepid op-ed about autonomous vehicles, we get a lot of hate from the techy wing of urbanism. For the record: Streetsblog is not anti-AV — we’re anti-car.
So the promise that AVs will fix one of the automobile’s greatest failings — i.e. how dangerous are car is to people outside the vehicle — doesn’t strike us enough.
But we have open minds! That’s why we headed to Hunter College last week to hear multiple panels of experts debate “The Future of Transportation.” We got a real earful — so hopefully you’ll enjoy our coverage below.
We also look at how Attorney General Letitia James declined to charge Lip Gloss Cop Lavonje Devone even though she ran over a man with her squad car … while she was applying makeup!
And we’ll hear from “War on Cars” co-host Doug Gordon about his opinion on the city’s Grand Army Plaza plans. They’re not perfect, but the Mamdani-O-Meter continues to roll forward.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
