The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The big story today is the latest attacks on the city’s decades-old citizen enforcement program to cut down on smoke-belching idling by commercial vehicles. If you like clean air, you’re for it. If you don’t like clean air — and you take contributions from bus companies — you’re Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer.
Let David Meyer talk you through the controversy.
Meanwhile, our other top stories today include a push to rein in the out-of-control Citi Bike fees, and another push to get Mayor Mamdani to make good on his promise to create hundreds of car-free school streets.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
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.