The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
This is a big newsletter for you: First, check out David Meyer’s deep analysis of a judge’s flawed ruling that requires the Department of Transportation to remove the 31st Street bike lane in Astoria. Then you get a double dose of Dave Colon (wash your hands after, please!) with a story about the MTA’s open gangway short-sightedness and a dead-on update on how New Yorkers will likely be holding the bag for President Trump’s dream of a monumental Trump, er, Penn Station.
Even I pitched in some top-quality journalism with a story yesterday about the NYPD’s apparently racial bias in some bike tickets — and the agency’s failure to explain its motivation. As we say in the business, “Gotcha!”
And make sure you start your day with today’s headlines, which again shows that congestion pricing is working … among other things.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
This year’s shortfall again underscores the Collision Investigation Squad’s limited safety role compared to peer cities such as Chicago.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
Our lives are defined by cars, even if we neither own nor drive them. Plus other news.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
