The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We have a regular news overload for you today! Check out:
1. Kevin Duggan’s story about the failure of an Upper West Side community board to put safety over parking. 2. Sophia Lebowitz’s explainer about a bill to ban the fastest e-bikes. 3. Dave Colon’s story about the Bronx’s historic pushback against a state expansion plan for the Cross-Bronx Expressway. 4. An op-ed slamming Council Member Gale Brewer for cowardice. 5. And today’s headlines.
What a day! And maybe later tonight, the Mets will even win a game? Pretty please?
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
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.