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.
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.”
