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.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
DoorDash finally pays the piper (Streetsblog gets action). Plus other news.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.
Local lawmakers in New York state are all over the map when it comes to addressing unsafe and illegal e-motos in their communities.
President Trump at Gracie Mansion (he’s not moving in … yet). Plus other news.
