The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today: DOT ignores the public in its possibly illegal bid to enforce a 15-mile-per-hour e-bike speed limit.
To be clear, Streetsblog has not taken an editorial position against a speed limit for motorized bikes. But we have opined at great length that the Adams administration is going about it all wrong. And the experts agree!
Also in the newsletter today, our editor in chief spews more expletives than Earl Weaver yelling at an umpire after a German tourist is decapitated by a reckless driver with a fake plate in Midtown. Enough is enough, people.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
