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.
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.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
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.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
