The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Streetsblog gets action: After our story earlier this week about how red tape at the FDNY had stalled the installation of safe e-bike battery charging stations, the agency changed its strategy (after trashing our reporting, of course).
Plus, we have more on the latest lawsuit to stop a bike lane. And more carnage on the streets.
Oh, and our editor is up to his old drug tricks in hopes of getting federal enforcement agents to stop parking in a bike lane!
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.