The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
New Jersey-based Academy Bus wants an exemption from New York City’s idling law so it can pollute the air and be rid of those pesky citizen enforcers. The city DEP is hoping there are experts out there who can testify and stop this madness.
Also, don’t miss Dave Colon’s piece on how the trucking industry is defending the city in its fight with the Trump administration over the 34th Street busway.
And scroll all the way down because a lot of stories broke during the day yesterday and you might have missed them!
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.