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!
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.
