The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

We hate love to say we told you so, but when the Adams administration un-protected three blocks of the Bedford Avenue bike lane, we knew the painted lane would again become filled with parked cars and cyclists would be forced into car traffic.

As a result, the city is now spending valuable police resources trying to rein in drivers, as Summer Specialist Yoshi Omi-Jarrett shows in the latest installment in his soon-to-be-award-nominated coverage.

Plus so much more news (we have more hits than the Mets!). Also, why not send us an old school snail mail letter? Our address is at the bottom.

  • HARTLEY KNOW HIM: Meet the Prolific Anti-Bike Lane Lawyer Who Can’t Get a Win
    by Kevin Duggan
    September 8, 2026
    Mayor Mamdani’s bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a retirement-aged Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued NYC DOT five times in three boroughs, to little success.
  • Tuesday’s Headlines: Welcome Back Edition
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    September 8, 2026
    We’re back with an epic “ICYMI” list, except the “Y” is a “W” and it stands for we.
  • Talking Headways Podcast: New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies
    by The Editorial Team
    September 4, 2026
    “Strong reforms are necessary if we’re going to have public transit agencies that are successful,” says this week’s guest.
  • Cop Left Pedestrian To Die After Hit-and-Run — And Told His Pals To Lie About It: DA
    by Sammy Sussman
    September 3, 2026
    A cop drove recklessly, struck a woman, lied about it, and got his friends to lie about it, Queens prosecutors say.
  • Nine People Were Killed By Hit-And-Run Drivers In August
    by Sammy Sussman
    August 31, 2026
    The latest victim? Nurse Jiaya Zheng, who was struck mere blocks from the medical center where she worked … and was taken before she died.
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