The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our lead story is a good news story about a great new bike lane linking the Bronx and Manhattan. The rest of the news, frankly, is pretty depressing, including our ongoing coverage of President Trump’s freeze in funding to critical road safety programs.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.