The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is more bewildering — and difficult to explain — policing from the NYPD. This time, we (again!) caught cops writing almost all their tickets to Black and Latino cyclists. When we asked the agency about it, we caught them in a lie. It’s all in Editor Gersh Kuntzman’s expose.
And we have a great story from Kevin Duggan about pedestrianizing the Financial District, which is so long overdue that the library is going to have to give it amnesty. (That’s an overdue book joke for those of you who still use libraries.)
But most important was our late-breaking Friday story about a Queens judge’s stunning decision to order the Department of Transportation to tear up the 31st Street protected bike lane in Astoria. David Meyer did the breaking news story below, but the nearly unprecedented decision. combined with what appears at first blush to be terrible lawyering by the city, will be the stuff of multiple follow-up stories today, thanks to the hard-working staff that your December donations help fund.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
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.
This year’s shortfall again underscores the Collision Investigation Squad’s limited safety role compared to peer cities such as Chicago.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
Our lives are defined by cars, even if we neither own nor drive them. Plus other news.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
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.
