Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

It’s Primary Day — Your Vote Carries a Lot of Weight and the Polls Are Open Until 9 PM (NY1, Post) Nikolas Padilla, 18, Assaulted By Racist Road Ragers While Biking, Made Mistake of Calling NYPD (DNA) City Hall Brags About Bike Lane Mileage But Hasn’t Committed More Resources to Redesigns (AMNY) Why Is NYC’s Bike Network […]

Primary Day Is Tomorrow and Politico Has a Guide to the Races Jay Street Protected Bike Lane Needs Better Protection (Bklyn Paper 1, 2, 3) Traffic on the Rise on MTA and Port Authority Crossings (Post) 23-Year-Old Woman Killed in Two-Car Crash in Ozone Park (News, Post) Vehicular Killing of Senior Spurs Call for Traffic Calming on […]

On Wednesday Citi Bike Topped 60,000 Daily Trips for the First Time (AMNY) Weisbrod: City Zoning Code Will Have to Adapt to Climate Change (Post) Cuomo Doesn’t Buy NYPD Rationale for Concealing Discipline Records (Post) Nicole Malliotakis Wants Bike Racks on Staten Island Buses (DNA) Bike Thieves Are Ambushing Cyclists in Riverside Park in Washington Heights (DNA) Richard […]

TransitCenter Report Recommends NYC Work With Uber Et Al. to Augment Transit (AMNY) NYC Cedes Flushing Meadows Corona Park to People Driving to the U.S. Open (TL) Garodnick Bill Would Require NYPD to Publish Its Patrol Guide (Gotham Gazette, Post) After Meeting With de Blasio, Van Bramer Still Opposed to Swapping Parking for Housing (TL) DDC and […]

Nicole Gelinas: Is Mayor de Blasio Committed to Ending Traffic Deaths, or Not? (Post) Port Authority Looking to Sell 1 World Trade Center (Crain’s) Does NYC Need Another Transportation Planning Body? Anthony Foxx Thinks So (Voice) Construction of the Chrystie Street Bikeway Has Begun (Boogie) What de Blasio Could Learn From the Toronto Streetcar: It Needs Dedicated Lanes to Work […]

Van Driver Kills Cyclist in East Elmhurst; Cops Blame Victim (News) This Week Anthony Foxx Can Turn Up the Pressure to Remove Highways in New York State (MTR) Inside the Lobbying Effort Against the Proposed Waste Transfer Station on the UES (Politico) David Dinkins Sued for Striking Cyclist and Fleeing, Deploys the “I Didn’t See Him” Defense (Post) […]