Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Shocker: No One Knows How the MTA Will Pay for Cuomo’s Penn Station Overhaul (WNYC, NY1, WSJ) De Blasio Signs Bills to Expand Pedestrians’ Right of Way and Allow More Bikes in Buildings (@ydanis) Just in Time for Fall, Prendergast Acknowledges Recurring Hot Car Problem on the 1 Train (NY1) MTA Might Close Columbus Circle Subway Entrances at […]

Cuomo Pledges New Penn Station by 2020 (Politico. NYT, Crain’s, Gothamist, AMNY) De Blasio Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions Includes Transit, Biking, Walking, EV Charging Stations (Politico) Ydanis Bill Would Require DOT to Rethink NYC’s Most Cramped Sidewalks (AMNY) ATU Wants to Unionize Uber and Lyft Drivers (Crain’s, News) Paul Vallone, Principals Get DOT to Install Slow Zone Where Flushing […]

The Q70 Is Now LaGuardia Link SBS (NY1) MTA Testing Second Avenue Subway Tracks (NY1); December Opening Looks Doubtful (DNA) Garbage Truck Traffic Poisoning the Air in Poor Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens Neighborhoods (News) New Taxi Tech Will Include Fingerprint Scanners to Verify Who’s Driving (Verge) City Council Weighs Tour Bus Cap and Other Reforms (AMNY) Schneiderman […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Francis Perez, 28, in Sheepshead Bay (News); NYPD Blames Victim (DNA) The Times Didn’t Ask James O’Neill About Traffic Violence, and He Didn’t Bring It Up The MTA Gives No Quarter to People Maimed by Bus Drivers (News) Bridgegate: Crony Details How Christie Used the Port Authority to Help Himself (NYT, Politico) Uber […]

NYPD: No Charges for Driver Who Backed Into Crosswalk and Killed Lee Strong, 83 (Gothamist, DNA) George Mamales, 85, Succumbs to Injuries Inflicted by Truck Driver on West End Ave (WSR) Hit-and-Run Truck Driver Severely Injures Cyclist in Midtown; Victim Could Lose Leg (Gothamist) Preet Nets Cuomo Insider Joe Percoco (NYT, Politico); Politico Compares Cuomo, Christie Scandals Port Authority Has Five PABT […]

“Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes” Drops Suit to Rip Out PPW Bikeway (DNA, Gothamist, Post) Brooklyn Paper Responds With Another Bikelash Double Feature (1, 2) Voice Has the Play-by-Play on What’s Happening With the Port Authority Bus Terminal The W Train Returns in November (NY1) After Allegedly Drunk Off-Duty Cop Killed Andrew Esquivel, DMV Kept Him […]