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.
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.
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.
Local lawmakers in New York state are all over the map when it comes to addressing unsafe and illegal e-motos in their communities.
President Trump at Gracie Mansion (he’s not moving in … yet). Plus other news.
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.
More Astroturf: Top politicos are on board with Waymo’s pitch.
It’s a four-way clusterfuck because … cars.
Mayor Mamdani set met with Paris’s new mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire. Plus other news.
One teenager on a bike was killed, and another injured, by a truck driver making a right turn at a busy intersection in the East Village, cops said.
