The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today: A Council bill to bar parking at the very edge of intersections — a safety design called “daylighting” — lost the support of supposed progressive Upper West Sider Gale Brewer after the latest scare- and parking-reduction mongering by the Department of Transportation.
It’s a story you’ll only read in Streetsblog.
In addition, Dave Colon has good news about cycling on Brooklyn’s Vanderbilt Avenue — it’s up (but that also shows the need for a safer design).
And make sure you see today’s news roundup, plus our other stories.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
