Julianne Cuba
Email Julianne Cuba at julianne@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
DOT: ‘We’re Still Talking’ About a ‘Bus Lane’ (But Not a Busway!) on Fifth Avenue
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To be clear: the current design is not the car-free busway as promised by the mayor in June.
NOT JUST DELAYED: The Fifth Avenue Busway Looks Completely Dead
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Update! New drawings were shared with Streetsblog after we published our initial story that the busway had merely been delayed. It's worse than delayed...
Revel Returns Thursday Following Month-Long ‘Suspension’ — With Added Safety Features
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“We are trying to change behavior,” said Revel CEO and co-founder Frank Reig.
Fifth Avenue Busway Delay: DOT Puts Luxury Retailers’ Revenue Over Riders’ Interests
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Favoring the needs of Rolex and Armani over those of 110,000 straphangers.
Streetsblog Gets Action: NYPD Restores Missing Bike Injury Data From TrafficStat
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They're back ... in all their disgusting clarity.
SEE NO EVIL? NYPD Inexplicably Removes Bike Injury Data From TrafficStat
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The NYPD has mysteriously removed statistics on bike injuries from its online database even as cycling — and cycling injuries from car drivers — are a key side-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Revel Adds Safety Quiz — And a Mandatory Helmet Selfie — But New York Must Wait for Reboot
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A new "safety course" includes a 20-minute multiple choice test, plus that hard-headed picture.
Port Authority Must Reopen Crucial Bus Lane, Riders And Advocates Say
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Public transit riders get screwed as car drivers reclaim a dedicated bus lane on the Manhattan-bound Lincoln Tunnel approach road.
ANATOMY OF A BUSWAY FAILURE: ‘Business Lives Matter’ Protesters Had Some ‘Good Ideas,’ DOT Commish Says
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An anti-transit group has once again sent Polly Trottenberg's agency scurrying back to its drawing boards in unwarranted shame.
Electeds to City Hall: Protect Cyclists on Fifth Avenue
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To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel: Never let a busway go to waste.
Busway Boosters to City Hall: Do Your Job. We’re Your Constituents, Too
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Flushing busway advocates are railing against the Department of Transportation for what appears to be its acquiescence to a small contingent of busway opponents.
Mayor to School Kids: You’re Expendable During a Pandemic
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Mayor de Blasio said on Monday that he's willing to sacrifice school-bound kids to more road carnage — temporarily, of course, because, you know, the pandemic.