The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Yom Kippur is the Jewish holiday of atonement, when observers are supposed to refrain from eating for 24 hours to consider their sins of the previous 12 months.
If you’re a reader of this daily newsletter, you know the sins of our political elite grow daily. So join us in another day of identifying some of them and offering encouragement for the ritual atonement.
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.