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.
“Too many New Yorkers know someone who never made it home. I am tired of learning the names of New Yorkers only after they were killed in preventable crashes.”
“Too many New Yorkers know someone who never made it home. I am tired of learning the names of New Yorkers only after they were killed in preventable crashes.”
The deaths and injuries “cannot continue” on Brooklyn’s Third Avenue, Mayor Mamdani said.
DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn declined to make any firm commitments on Tuesday when pressed on the program’s start date.
“The federal government is using subterfuge to waste the judge’s and MTA attorneys’ time and all of our money,” one attorney and advocate fumed.
A Staten Island judge ruled against the city’s Victory Boulevard bus lane project. Plus other news.
