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It was a very busy day on Monday, with MTA CEO Janno Lieber letting his frustration with Amtrak boil over into a curse-filled rant about how the federal train system isn’t letting MTA workers get timely access to its tracks to expand Metro-North service.
We also have a story about how the placard elites are dumping their illegally parked cars on Downtown Brooklyn.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.