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Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Two Pedestrians in Cypress Hills (News) Driver Kills Man on 12th Ave at 46th Street; No Charges (News) Politico, DNA Cover de Blasio’s Comments to Brian Lehrer on the L Train Shutdown Optimistic Takes on What the Mayor’s Saying About Car-Free 14th Street (Post, AMNY) Why London’s Fare Payment System Makes Sense for the […]

TA Report: City Hall Defends “Regularized” NYPD Enforcement: Gothamist; More: Voice, AMNY, NY1 With 2017 Fare Hike Looming, Advocates Worry Cuomo Will Stiff Straphangers (Gothamist) Second Ave Sagas Not Optimistic Biennial Fare Hikes Will Bring Improved Service Delays on Some Subway Lines Are Up, But Vague MTA Data Doesn’t Tell Riders Much (DNA) MTA Dismisses Proposal to Run E Trains on G Tracks During […]

TA Report: Haphazard NYPD Enforcement Is Hindering Vision Zero Progress (WSJ) Straphangers Should Expect to See Another Fare Hike in 2017 (News, AMNY, NY1) Prendergast Wants Canarsie Tube Repairs to Wrap Ahead of Schedule (Post) Cuomo’s Pointless LaGuardia AirTrain Is Happening (Times Ledger) Team BQX Says Expired 421-a Tax Abatement Won’t Affect Project Financing (Times Ledger) MTA Sues City […]

Electeds Want 16-Agency “Working Group” to Prepare for Canarsie Tube Closure (News, @2AvSagas) How Will NYC Manage Streets When There’s No L Service? De Blasio Isn’t Inspiring Confidence (Politico) The Times Ponders How Williamsburg Will Fare Without the L; Post Pleased With Shutdown Plan Keegan Stephan: Get the NYPD Out of Vision Zero (City Limits) Cyclist Seriously Injured […]

Bratton Won’t Stay Beyond Next Year (NYT) L-Pocalypse 2019! (2nd Ave Sagas, News, DNA, AMNY, Post, Bklyn Paper) It Doesn’t Look Like the 2nd Ave Subway Will Launch This Year (DNA) Crain’s: John Degnan Needs a Better Plan to Replace Port Authority Bus Terminal DDC Won’t Finish Astor Place Reconstruction Until the Fall (DNA) Metro North Rolls Out […]

MTA Opts for Full 18-Month Closure of L Tunnel — Time to Start Planning Some PeopleWays (NYT) NYT: If Cuomo Is Serious About Fixing the MTA, He’ll Push for Move NY Minivan Driver Strikes and Kills Terrence Montrose, 26, in Breezy Point; No Charges (News) NYPD Found the Car Used to Kill Matthew von Ohlen. […]