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Let’s end the week by again reminding Mayor Mamdani that bus speed promises are one thing, but delivering is another. Today, we lead our newsletter with an op-ed from Queens resident Pedro Rodriguez demanding better bus service in the World’s Borough.
And don’t miss Sophia Lebowitz’s feature on people who clean streets that car drivers leave a mess.
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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.