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!
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
All trucks should have side guards! Yet the city only mandates some trucks get the life-saving, easy-to-install barriers.
DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues are getting makeovers that will give bus and bike riders their fair share of the road.
Another Central Park tragedy. Plus more news.
The 71-year-old bicyclist was riding on the East Drive near 84th Street at around 8:20 a.m. when he “collided with a dog that ran onto the roadway.”
The Hochul administration is slow-walking safety on the West Side Highway as more and more people suffer injuries or worse on the corridor.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
