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How Much Will It Take to Fix the Region’s Transport Infrastructure? (WNYC) TWU Lashes Out at de Blasio Over Capital Plan, Lets Cuomo Off the Hook (News) Francis Blesses Upper West Side With Car-Free Streets (Gothamist) BxTimes Has More Details About the Bus Collision That Killed Luis Inoa, 23, September 18 Hit-and-Run Witness: “I Just […]

Richard Ravitch Talks Some Sense About the MTA Funding Drama (NY1 via MTR) NYT Profiles Tom Prendergast, Team Cuomo Surrogate MTA Readies Cuts to Capital Program If Funding Doesn’t Materialize (Post) Staten Island Advocates Still Hopeful Capital Program Will Include North Shore BRT (Advance) Hit-and-Run Driver Still on the Loose After Killing 89-Year-Old in Throggs […]

City Readies for Pope Carmageddon (NYT, WSJ), But Mitchell Moss Isn’t Worried (Politico) Imagine, Just for a Second, If the Pope Didn’t Get Driven Around Manhattan (New Yorker, News) Queens CB 7 Votes Against Q44 Select Bus Service in Flushing (TL) Observer and 2nd Avenue Sagas Are Sick of the Political Drama Over MTA Funding Army Corps Inspects […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed City Island Cyclist Charged With Manslaughter, Homicide (News, DNA) Cyclist Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver on Victory Boulevard Last Week (Advance) The Daily News Is Not Impressed By the MTA’s Supposed Leaders Kimmelman Relieved de Blasio Has Decided to Improve, Not Remove, Times Square (NYT) More Coverage of DOT’s Bike Lane Announcement (AMNY, News, Post, […]

Prendergast Threatens to Cut MTA’s NYC Investment Unless City Pays (Politico, News, Post, WNYC) Turning Truck Driver Seriously Injures 19-Year-Old Cyclist in Corona; No Charges (Post) The Only Direction for Subway Ridership at Hudson Yards to Go Is Up (Post) With Support From Council Members, de Blasio’s Ferry Plan Steams Ahead (AP, Gotham Gazette) Tunnel Funding Offer From […]

What Happens If One of the Hudson Rail Tunnels Fails? (Politico) Cuomo Proxy Tom Prendergast Jabs de Blasio Over MTA Capital Plan in the Daily News Bike-Share Launches on the Other Side of the Hudson Today (NYT) Two Injured in High-Speed NYPD Chase on Upper Manhattan Streets (Post) NYPD Highway Patrol Officer Caught Driving With a .43% BAC […]