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State Budget Throws a Bone to NYC With $1.5B for 2nd Ave Subway (2AS, NYT, Politico, Post) Center for an Urban Future Maps How Long Your Long Commute Is (Gothamist, DNA, Crain’s) Tony Avella and Ron Kim Say City Should Delay Flushing Rezoning Until Transit Improves (News) Port Authority Entertains Eminent Domain for Bus Terminal (Crain’s) Former City Officials Back Plan to Overhaul […]

De Blasio’s Streetcar May Screw Up the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway (DNA) The Times Editorial Board Wonders Why Cuomo Is So Hot to “Blow a Hole” in NYC’s Budget Post: City Can Afford Both Vision Zero and Graffiti Clean-Up Tri-State: LIRR Service Problems Are Costing Long Island a Ton of Money (MTR) Bronx: Unlicensed Driver Hits 5 on Sidewalk; Hit-and-Run Car […]

Interim Org Formed to Get Gateway Going; Schumer Hopes to Start Digging in 2018 (Post) While Cuomo Spends Lavishly on Upstate Roads, He’s Squeezing NYC Medicaid (Politico) Crain’s Editors Cautiously Optimistic on de Blasio Ferries Happy Talk Notwithstanding, DOT Budget Is Stretched to the Max (Post) A Thousand Citi Bikes Will Be Taken Out of Circulation for Maintenance […]

Meet the Circular Firing Squad Responsible for the Leaky Hudson Yards 7 Station (NYT) City Council to Vote Next Week on Giving DOT Authority to Establish New Rules for Plazas (Gothamist) Another Downside to Having Two Different Bike-Share Systems in Neighboring Cities (Jersey Journal) Gridlock Sam Talks Move NY and Crumbling BQE With the Brooklyn Paper 2016 […]

Robert Rodriguez and Alex Matthiessen Talk Move NY Toll Reform With Brian Lehrer (WNYC) Even After Those Huge Corruption Convictions, Ethics Reform Remains Elusive in Albany (WSJ) 2nd Ave Sagas Discouraged By the State of MTA Capital Funding TSTC Encouraged By Last Week’s Port Authority Board Meeting (MTR) A Lot of Red Hook Residents Want a […]

PA Board Votes to Finance New Midtown Bus Terminal Whatever the Cost (Politico, NYT, Crain’s, WNYC) “I Have the Right of Way Because I’m Law Enforcement” (NYT) Who’ll Run Out of Money First, Chris Christie’s Transportation Agencies or Andrew Cuomo’s? (MTR) Scott Stringer, Daily News, and the Post Feed the Speed Camera Resentment Beast Build the Hunts Point Truck […]