Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Cyclist Deaths Up 140 Percent From 2015 (NYT); City Hall Still Withholding Crash Data From Public Matthew von Ohlen’s Killer Remains at Large (Patch); More Crash Coverage: Voice, DNA MTA Launches B46 Select Bus Service as NY1 Plays Up Opening Day Nitpicking Rail E-Ticket App Is New MetroCard Pilot (AMNY); More on Cuomo’s Inscrutable Presser: Crain’s Staten Island Railway Emergency Call Boxes Installed […]

Chris Christie Sabotaged NJ Gas Tax Hike Negotiations (Politico) Driver Runs Down and Kills Cyclist on Grand Street, Flees Scene (WPIX, News) …Cops Respond By Handing Out “Operation Safe Cycle” Flyers (Gothamist) Road Raging Off-Duty Cop Shoots and Kills Man on Atlantic Ave (NYT, News, Post) Select Bus Service Arrives for Passengers on the B46, Brooklyn’s […]

Wider Sidewalks Now! (NYT) …the 8th Ave Bike Lane Depends On It (Gothamist) Porsche Driver Jumps Sidewalk and Kills Woman in Elmhurst, Flees Scene (News, Post) Ridership on the B44 Up 10% With Bus Lanes and Off-Board Fare Payment (AMNY) Select Bus Service on the B46 Launches This Weekend (DNA) Cuomo Trying to Bully NYC Into Covering Albany’s […]

Chris Christie Presses NJ Senate to Raise the Gas Tax (Politico) Signs of Progress in the Effort to Reform NYC’s Commercial Trash Carting Industry (Crain’s – Paywall) How Does Narrowing Flatbush Ave By the Manny-B Affect Traffic? Let’s Find Out (Bklyn Paper) Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Will Come With a New Entrance to Dekalb Ave Subway Station (Bklyn Paper) Sauchu Chen, Hit By […]

Adriano Espaillat Declares Victory in Primary to Succeed Charlie Rangel (NYT, Politico) NYPD Files No Charges Against Hit-and-Run Trash Hauler Who Killed Noah Goldstein (Gothamist, WSR) 18-Year-Old Driver Kills Woman on UWS, Immediately Gets Absolved By Police (News, Post) More Coverage of Judge Gia Morris’s Flimsy Ruling Against Right of Way Law (News, Post, Gothamist) U.S. DOT Will Grant […]

The Election to Succeed Charlie Rangel Is Today! Politico Checks In on the Race Queens Judge Rules Right of Way Law Unconstitutional — Prior Rulings Disagree (NY1) NJ Assembly Passes Gas Tax Hike, Sales Tax Cut (NJ.com) Albany Failed to Pass Legislation to Enable Cost-Saving Design-Build Construction Contracts (Crain’s) Crain’s: Get Developers to Pay for […]