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.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
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.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
DoorDash finally pays the piper (Streetsblog gets action). Plus other news.
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.
