The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Hope you all made it out of yesterday’s deluge unscathed (and not too soggy).
Today’s newsletter brings you Kevin Duggan’s dispatch from yesterday’s e-bike 15 mph speed limit hearing. Turns out, both e-bike friends AND foes think it’s a load of crock. We also have Sophia Lebowitz’s coverage of a commitment by over 200 cyclists that they’ll sue the city if Mayor Adams’s removal of three blocks of the Bedford Ave. protected bike lane leads to their injury.
“Better street design” is not “some kind of mystery,” says best friend of cyclist Dmytro Stechenko, who was killed in head-on collision with an illegal stand up scooter rider in the May 28 Queensboro Bridge crash.
“Better street design” is not “some kind of mystery,” says best friend of cyclist Dmytro Stechenko, who was killed in head-on collision with an illegal stand up scooter rider in the May 28 Queensboro Bridge crash.
In Jersey City, Mayor James Solomon will install 100 quick-build safety measures, giving a new meaning to the term, “Safety first.”
Mayor Mamdani’s budget baselines $6.4 million per year through 2030 for Open Streets.
A great day for a long-suffering city (though a bad day for some buses). Plus other news.
A celebration with a history rooted in pushing back on police abuse won’t be subject to it this year.
