The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Is it great that Streetsblog now has an upstate edition, Streetsblog Empire State? Today, our lead story comes from excelsior-minded reporter Austin C. Jefferson, who followed Mayor Mamdani around the State Capitol yesterday.
We also have a great story about how no one at City Hall is moving to implement Sammy’s Law to lower citywide speed limits to 20 miles per hour.
Such a move could improve safety … which brings us to our next story, by new associate reporter Max White, who digested a complex MIT report and spat out a great story.
We’ll have more news later today. What a team. What a Streetsblog.
“Strong reforms are necessary if we’re going to have public transit agencies that are successful,” says this week’s guest.
A cop drove recklessly, struck a woman, lied about it, and got his friends to lie about it, Queens prosecutors say.
The latest victim? Nurse Jiaya Zheng, who was struck mere blocks from the medical center where she worked … and was taken before she died.
Here’s important information for readers while Streetsblog’s staff undertake four days of professional development and cocktails.
Plenty of money to fix the BQE, but not to fix a vital greenway on the East Side.
