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.
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.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
