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.
A first full fleet inventory led to 70 fewer vehicles, fewer take-home cars and new accountability for crashes. Experts say New York’s deficit-ridden cities should audit their own.
DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn declined to make any firm commitments on Tuesday when pressed on the program’s start date.
“The federal government is using subterfuge to waste the judge’s and MTA attorneys’ time and all of our money,” one attorney and advocate fumed.
A Staten Island judge ruled against the city’s Victory Boulevard bus lane project. Plus other news.
A first full fleet inventory led to 70 fewer vehicles, fewer take-home cars and new accountability for crashes. Experts say New York’s deficit-ridden cities should audit their own.
DOT should revoke parking placards issued to non-profits that rack up excessive speed-camera or red-light violations.
