The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
What a crammed newsletter we have for you today, starting with coverage of an Independent Budget Office report megaphoning what we’ve been grumbling about for months: Citi Bike is too expensive!
In addition, we have more in our ongoing coverage of the Department of Transportation’s slow effort to bring safe battery charging to the public realm, as well as the agency’s strong defense of its bike lane on Court Street. Did you know that more people bike to Court Street than drive? Hopefully, the judge in the merchants’ lawsuit against the bike lane is reading Kevin Duggan today.
We also have some national news and today’s headlines. Whew. What a business.
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.