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CBC: Cuomo’s MTA Budget Too Opaque to Approve (Politico) More on Stringer’s Wake-Up Call to Modernize NYC Bus Service (NYT, News, AMNY, Post, WNYC, NY1) Congestion Pricing “Could Dominate the 2018 Legislative Session in Albany” (C&S) At Least Four Bike-Share Startups Expected to Pitch DOT on Operating in NYC (Crain’s) DOT Almost Done Striping Batch of Bike Lanes […]

BMW Driver, 19, Kills Edwin Ajacalon, 15, Biking at 5th Ave and 23rd in Brooklyn (News, Post, WNBC) A Challenge for Andrew Cuomo: Let NYCT Transit Boss Andy Byford Do His Job (NYT) Joe Addabbo Pressuring DOT to Weaken Woodhaven Boulevard Bus Lanes (QChron) QChron Went Hunting for Rego Park Businesses to Badmouth Queens Boulevard Bike Lane […]

Cuomo Enlists Toronto Transit CEO Andrew Byford to Lead NYCT (NYT, WNYC) Lhota Plugs Road Pricing in State of the Subway Op-Ed (News) Advice for Byford From TransitCenter and the Daily News Jim Dwyer Has a Better Grasp of MTA Ills Than NYT Editors Post Hits Cuomo for Shifting Subway Upkeep Costs to ConEd Customers Related: Will NYT’s […]

Cuomo Shifts Costs of MTA Electrical Repairs to Con Ed (Politico) Lhota: Subway Crisis “Exactly Why I Came Back” (NYT) All Speaker Candidates Want to Extend City Council Term Limits (News) Laurie Cumbo Got an Earful From Constituents Who Want Bus Lanes on Fulton Street (Patch) DiNapoli: MTA Going Too Soft on Open-Road Toll Cheats […]

How a Generation of Political Malpractice Culminated in Failing Subways Under Andrew Cuomo (NYT) Do Lee Explains the Absurdity of NYC’s E-Bike Ban to Brian Lehrer (WNYC) Driver, 18, Killed in T-Bone Crash on Dangerous Richmond Hill Street (News) Man Unexpectedly Dies Day After Crashing Into Stalled Vehicle on Staten Island Expressway (News) Woman Fleeing […]

Jim Dwyer Traces the MTA Debt Spiral to the Bottom of the Sea (NYT) Meanwhile, PANYNJ Itches to Give Cuomo’s AirTrain Boondoggle a Blank Check (AMNY, News) Transit Users in Wheelchairs: A Brief History of MTA Neglect (Voice) Bus Riders Talk to NY1 About Transit Signal Priority — Spoiler: They’re For It Full Council Passes Ydanis’s Hit-and-Run Text […]