The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Council members were downright pissed off at the Department of Transportation at a rally yesterday in support of an effort to ban parking at intersections, a common-sense measure also known as daylighting. Our own Kevin Duggan broke the story that the Council would be forced to blink to get the bill over the finish line, but not before lawmakers said the agency should be ashamed.
In other news, we have a great national story from Kea Wilson about how the GOP-led federal government is going to push more highways and fewer bike lanes in the next surface transportation bill.
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.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.