The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s top story is a classic Streetsblog “Anatomy of…” story, a deep dive into how Mayor Adams went from actually thinking about taking on the app companies to just busting cyclists.
In other words, how did a man who wanted to create the “Department of Sustainable Delivery” end up just cracking down on workers?
Plus so much other news (including another betrayal by Albany on making streets safer).
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.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.