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).
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.
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.
