The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Mayor Adams’s signature achievement, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunities, is only as good as its implementation. So for starters, Streetsblog came up with a rating system to encourage developers to get busy picking the low-hanging fruit: low-density neighborhoods that could take a bit more density.
Meanwhile, Dave Colon took a lot at one of the Adams administration’s signature disgraces: its effort to get ride of a protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue.
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.
