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.
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.
Good design is great, but if you can’t afford it, you can’t have babies. A very special edition of the podcast with the always provocative Blaine Brownell.