The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Talk about hedging your bets! Uber, through its political action committee, has been spending big on both Council Member Julie Menin and Council Member Crystal Hudson, both of whom want to be Speaker. Sophia Lebowitz has the story.
Meanwhile, Lebowitz has a second story about how a state lawmaker from Brooklyn, who once told Streetsblog that reckless driving wasn’t such a big deal, finally signed onto a key street safety bill after killer driver Miriam Yarimi got such a low prison sentence.
Plus we have the Mam and Donny show in headlines, and a great op-ed from Annie Weinstock. And even a Sunday story from Dave Colon.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.