The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today is the Labor Day farewell to the summer, so we here at Streetsblog will take one last day to recharge our e-bike batteries before hitting the fall like an early season hurricane. We’ll have full coverage of the mayoral election, full coverage of the current mayor’s ongoing ethical challenges, full coverage of the fight to protect delivery workers from exploitive work in the app salt mines and, of course, full coverage of everything the city DOT can and can’t accomplish before a new mayor comes in with a broom.
For now, here are a few stories you might have missed from last week, including the violent arrest of a Citi Bike rider, a long-overdue plan to pedestrianize Lower Manhattan, and full team coverage of how the Adams administration has allegedly traded street safety for bribes.
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.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
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.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
State lawmakers still have work to do on car insurance, even if they’d like to leave Albany thinking they’ve made New Yorkers’ lives better.
