The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
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Also in today’s news digest: An MIT grad student has found a flaw in how the city counts cyclists. And join Editor Gersh Kuntzman as he does more drugs in the 10th Avenue bike lane (it’s for a good cause!).
And don’t miss yesterday’s late-breaking news about the city’s secure bike parking plans.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
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.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
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 huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
