The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
There is so much news in today’s newsletter.
First, Mayor Adams has funded the popular pandemic program for one more year — but mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo refuses to commit.
Also, we have our first dispatch from Albany correspondent Amy Sohn, as well as an opinion piece by Charles Komanoff about NYPD Commissioner Tisch’s misguided criminal crackdown on cyclists.
Plus, our old man editor breaks up with Neil Young.
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.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.