The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Again, we have so many stories for you today:
1. The DOT is adding a lot more truck routes, which the agency says will make it easier to monitor where trucks are, but some critics say isn’t solving the problem of trucks in residential areas.
2. We also have two great upstate stories out of Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson: First, he looked at how the only county in the state without transit service is setting out to change that. And second, he gets the word out about a terrible bill that Reinvent Albany hopes Gov. Hochul will veto.
3. Nolan Hicks looks at an Upper West Side philanthropist who was run down and killed by a van driver on Sunday.
4. And don’t miss our stories from yesterday, including an op-ed from two Council members who are upset at Speaker Adrienne Adams for killing the daylighting bill.
And, finally, we will always remember where we were when we heard Pete Alonso had signed with the Orioles (at our desks throwing our computers across the freakin’ room).
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.