The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’ve been covering congestion pricing from top to bottom, but today, we’ll lead with a story about a Brooklyn cyclist and a recent crash.
And it’s the national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, so please take a moment to remember a great humanitarian (no matter what you thought of him as president).
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.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.