The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s top story is a barn-burner! Our Sophia Lebowitz discovered how Uber’s app compels the company’s drivers (er, independent contractors) to drive recklessly, in one case, ordering up an illegal U-turn that ended in a violent crash.
Drivers say they are reluctant to ignore the Uber app because of the risk of being deactivated (that is to say, fired) for a late pickup.
So many things that are wrong about our society are evident in Lebowitz’s commanding, soon-to-be-award-winning piece, including but not limited to worker exploitation, tech greed, labor silencing and basic street safety.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
