Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

No Action Reported on Toll Reform or Speed Cams as Albany Session Winds Down (Politico, NYT, WSJ) Leroy Comrie Joins Daneek Miller’s Campaign Against Queens Transit Improvements (TL) MTA Will Extend Late-Night R Service Between Manhattan and Bay Ridge (AMNY, Bklyn Paper) Advocates: MTA’s Next-Gen Fare System Should Enable Proof-of-Payment on Buses (News, AMNY) Citi Bike Is Offering Free Rides This Weekend (AMNY) […]

Inspector Stephen D’Ulisse Is NYPD’s New Highway Patrol CO (DNA, News) Still a Lot of Unanswered Questions About de Blasio’s Ferries (NYT, 2AS) Slate: Cuomo’s LaGuardia Train “One of the Worst Transit Ideas in America” AMNY Talked With Local Restaurant and Shop Employees About the 14th Street “PeopleWay” DNA Story on DOT’s South Bronx Protected Bike […]

Council Approves Budget (Politico, NY1, WSJ); De Blasio Signs Bill Easing Quality of Life Penalties (DNA) Toll Reform, Upstate Uber Expansion, Ethics Reform Not on Albany’s To-Do List (NYT) Cuomo Says His LaGuardia Renovation Will Turn New York Around (DNA, Politico, Crain’s, News) 2nd Ave Sagas: What’s the Deal With Cuomo’s LaGuardia Train? Daily News Upset With Port Authority Bus […]

Cuomo’s Sinking Stakes in the Ground for His Pointless LaGuardia AirTrain (NY1) Business and Labor Beg Albany to Pass Cost-Saving Design-Build Bill (Crain’s) Fernando Cabrera: Ask Other Straphangers to Fund Fare Discounts for Low-Income Riders (AMNY) Two Drivers and One Passenger Killed in Two Separate Crashes Yesterday (News) While Legislators Hem and Haw on Speed […]

Hit-and-Run Drivers Kill Three People in Manhattan and the Bronx (Gothamist 1, 2; Post; News 1, 2) Motorist Kills 52-Year-Old Po Chu Ng in Sixth Avenue Crosswalk; No Charges (Gothamist) Manslaughter Charge for Speeding, Impaired Driver in Fatal East New York Collision (Post) Taxi Driver Critically Injures Pedestrian on Upper West Side (Gothamist) With Session Ending, […]

City Says State Budget Gives MTA Too Much Leeway on Zoning (WSJ) One of Cuomo’s MTA Board Nominees Was Just Awarded a Big MTA Contract (WNYC) Got a Plan to Handle the L Train Shutdown? Bring It (News) DOT Proposes Narrowing Auto Lanes and Adding Bike Lanes to Slow Drivers in Stapleton (DNA) Manhattan CB 4: DOT Resistance to […]