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.
Despite winning community support, the Mamdani administration may have to delay its W. 72nd Street redesign due to legal threats and plans to do more outreach, DOT said in court filings this week.
“Strong reforms are necessary if we’re going to have public transit agencies that are successful,” says this week’s guest.
A cop drove recklessly, struck a woman, lied about it, and got his friends to lie about it, Queens prosecutors say.
The latest victim? Nurse Jiaya Zheng, who was struck mere blocks from the medical center where she worked … and was taken before she died.
Here’s important information for readers while Streetsblog’s staff undertake four days of professional development and cocktails.
Plenty of money to fix the BQE, but not to fix a vital greenway on the East Side.
Massive online retailers Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist are defying a Mamdani order to stop selling dangerous and illegal e-motos.
The Daily News editorial board offered a boneheaded critique of Mayor Mamdani’s plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Plus other news.
Clarence Eckerson is your source for Summer Streets joy.
Despite winning community support, the Mamdani administration may have to delay its W. 72nd Street redesign due to legal threats and plans to do more outreach, DOT said in court filings this week.
