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.
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.
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.
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
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.
Memo of agreement? To Janno Lieber, the Amtrak offer sounds more like a memo of disagreement!
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.
American manufacturers have failed to create top-notch plug-in buses.
