Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Pressure From Electeds Forces Port Authority to Restart PABT Planning Process (WSJ, AMNY) Developer Drops Plan to Replace Sunnyside Parking Lot With Housing; Van Bramer Pleased (TL) Related: DNA Has a Six-Month Status Report on Proposed Affordable Housing Projects De Blasio Wants Street Fairs to Be Less Generic (Politico) More on Sky High Access-A-Ride Costs From WSJ, NY1 Did […]

MTA Could Save a Lot By Running Access-a-Ride More Efficiently (Crain’s) Port Authority Report Keeps Alive the Idea of Bus-to-7-Train Connection in Secaucus (Politico) DOT’s Ryan Russo Talks Bicycling, Street Redesign, and Vision Zero With Urban Omnibus Crashes Involving City Employees — Not Including Cops — Up 11 Percent in Past Year (Post) Garbage Truck […]

Which NYC Do We Want: A City Where People Can Afford to Live or a City With Lots of Parking? (NYT) It’s Settled: DOT and MTA Need to Claim Lots of Street Space for Buses Before the L-Pocalypse (News) BMW Driver Critically Injures Pedestrian on East Tremont Ave in Schuylerville (News) SUV Driver Backing Up to […]

Bratton Retires Today (DNA, AP, Post, Politico); Valedictory NYT Column Doesn’t Mention Street Safety Polly Trottenberg Stores Her Car on the Street Just Like Everyone Else (Politico, Post, DNA) Hundreds Join TA to Demand de Blasio Do More to Prevent Traffic Deaths (PIX, AMNY) Paul White Calls on James O’Neill to Take Vision Zero Seriously (News) The Daily News […]

Ahead of Tonight’s TA Ride (DNA), Matthew von Ohlen Family Urges de Blasio to Fund Street Fixes (News) Motorist Kills 63-Year-Old Man Walking in Harlem; NYPD, DNA Blame Victim Borough Park Driver Hit Child Hard Enough to Shatter Bike Helmet; NYPD: “Accident” (Post, News) Shocker: DOT Vision Zero Curriculum Prompts the Post to Blame Children for Traffic Crashes Advocates, Lower […]

Niou Takes Silver’s Seat; Alcantara, De La Rosa, Sanders, Carroll Win; Markey Out (NYT, Politico, DNA) L Shutdown: City Plans Delancey Bikeway, Bike Parking (WSJ); MTA to Study Car-Free 14th St. (News) City Council Set to Close Right of Way Law Loophole Ignored by de Blasio and DOT (AMNY) Vision Zero: If You’re Lecturing Children, You’re Doing It Wrong (NYT, Advance) […]