The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We don’t usually lead our daily newsletter with our daily headlines post, but we are today because it features a crucial assignment for members of the mainstream press: Please go to today’s demonstration of “speed-limiter technology” that state Sen. Andrew Gounardes is doing in Brooklyn.
As you recall, Gounardes has, for years, been trying to mandate the installation of speed governors in the cars of the very worst of the worst drivers — drivers who rack up 16 speed-camera tickets in a year!
Today at 11:30, he’ll show just how sensible this technology is because all it does is make drivers do what they’re supposed to be doing already: drive the speed limit!
If that’s not enough to entice you, the best babka in the city is two blocks away at a bakery called Yardsale.
Also in today’s newsletter:
* Aaron Short has a story about a key court win for the climate. * Nolan Hicks has a story about trying to make a dangerous intersection safer in the Village. * Erin McAuliff writes about making sure paratransit doesn’t get thrown out with the bathwater. * You can read about the expansion of our newsroom, too!
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.
