The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
It’s going to be a busy day, what with a huge transportation budget hearing in Albany (Kevin Duggan set us up nicely with his latest insurance reform story).
But start your day with the top story: Mayor Mamdani is still cracking down on cyclists with criminal summonses that he said he would scrap.
Plus, Dave Colon brings us inside Gov. Hochul’s Second Avenue Subway dreams.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
Good design is great, but if you can’t afford it, you can’t have babies. A very special edition of the podcast with the always provocative Blaine Brownell.
Streetsblog sat down with Dheraj Ganjikunta and Alex Morano to talk about the group’s new transit organizing effort, bus lanes, MTA funding and the fight for fare-free service.