The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s newsletter opens with an exclusive piece by a driving instructor reflecting on a major bribery scandal at the state DMV.
Plus, we have another upstate contribution — this time about a flawed “complete streets” redesign in the so-called “river towns” — by Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson.
All trucks should have side guards! Yet the city only mandates some trucks get the life-saving, easy-to-install barriers.
DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues are getting makeovers that will give bus and bike riders their fair share of the road.
Another Central Park tragedy. Plus more news.
The 71-year-old bicyclist was riding on the East Drive near 84th Street at around 8:20 a.m. when he “collided with a dog that ran onto the roadway.”
The Hochul administration is slow-walking safety on the West Side Highway as more and more people suffer injuries or worse on the corridor.
