The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’re going to be covering Gov. Hochul’s flawed attempt to lower car insurance premiums from now until it’s defeated. And it must be. As Kevin Duggan has dutifully reported in these pages, the Uber-backed proposal is designed to save car drivers money by cutting the compensation that crash victims would receive.
It’s just pain on top of pain on top of another handout to drivers, whose full toll on society in the form of injuries, pollution, congestion, lost freedom and noise has, for too long, simply been passed along to all of us, car driver or not.
We say enough. Which brings us to our lead story today: Lawyer Daniel Flanzig makes the legal argument against Hochul’s plan.
But we’re not done yet. Duggan is just getting warmed up.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
State lawmakers still have work to do on car insurance, even if they’d like to leave Albany thinking they’ve made New Yorkers’ lives better.
