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It started on Friday afternoon (naturally) with Mayor Adams’s announcement that he would erase three blocks of the Bedford Avenue bike lane — which his DOT only completed late last year — on the grounds that it is unsafe.
Then he ramped it up with another propaganda video depicting bike riders — not parents who leave their kids off in the middle of the street and tell them to run into traffic — as the villains.
This comes after six weeks of criminalizing cycling and, more recently, pushing for bike speed limits before he even gets around to slowing down cars.
New York voters have increasingly been rejecting Adams, so now he’s on a revenge tour, embracing the fever dreams of his beloved Republican party. He’s been quick to complain about politicians who will say anything to get elected, but now this guy is willing to do anything if it could possibly widen the narrowest of chances he has of retaining Gracie Mansion in November.
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.
The deaths and injuries “cannot continue” on Brooklyn’s Third Avenue, Mayor Mamdani said.
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.
There’s nothing “Grand” about this bike lane, and now everyone’s upset.
