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Partnership for NYC: Traffic Costs City $20B a Year (Post) NYT on Crosstown Bike Lanes: People Have Died — But! Justin Davidson: Pedestrianize Broadway and Get Cars Off Residential Blocks (NY Mag) Brian Kavanagh Doesn’t Want the BQX to Interfere With BQE Rebuild (Bklyn Paper) 7 Train Riders Will Lose Express Service for Track Repairs […]

Eric Gonzalez: Hit-and-Run Killing of Neftaly Ramirez Was Legal (Bklyn Paper) Expect Cuomo’s Version of Road Pricing to Have a String of Asterisks (NYT, AMNY) Cuomo “Alternate Reality” Budget Rids Him of the MTA (Politico); More: NYT Andy Byford Has Never Owned a Car, Will Take Transit to Work (NYT, News, AMNY) Phil Murphy Didn’t […]

Cuomo: Congestion Pricing Won’t Put a Price on Congested East River Bridges (Politico, News) No Sign Yet That Cuomo’s Subway Action Plan Is Improving Service (Post) Today’s the First Day on the Job for New NYC Transit Prez Andy Byford (News) Will the MTA Reopen All of Williamsburg’s Shuttered Subway Entrances Before the L-Pocalypse? (AMNY) […]

Senate Will Do Nothing About Klein Misconduct Allegation (NYT; Politico 1, 2; News; Post; Spectrum) Climate Change Warrior Bill de Blasio Hasn’t Taken the Subway in a Month (NYT) Johnson Names Committee Chairs — Ydanis Remains on Transportation (Post, News) Civil Rights Group Says Black People More Likely to Be Arrested for Fare Evasion (Bklyn Paper) Christie Not Done […]

Motorist Fatally Strikes Jun Sum Yim, 77, in Flushing and Flees (News) Former Staffer Says Jeff Klein Forcibly Kissed Her in 2015 (HuffPo, NYT, Politico) Weather Blamed for Consecutive Days of Subway Meltdowns (Post) De Blasio’s Road Pricing Contortions Get Politico’s Attention More on the Mayor’s Big Oil Dog and Pony Show: NYT, Voice, Politico, News, Post Plan to […]

Will Cuomo and Heastie Put Their Weight Behind Road Pricing, or Not? (Politico) Flanagan Says Albany Doing All It’s Going to Do to Fund the MTA (News) Price Tag for Cuomo’s Long Island Car Tunnel Estimated at $55B (CBS) … As the Collapse of the Subway System He Runs Continues Apace (NY1, Post) De Blasio Pauses […]