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Is the Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Dead or Just Hibernating? (Voice) Better Scheduling Could Go a Long Way to Improve Subway Reliability (CityLab) After Subway Listening Tour, Will Pols Hold Cuomo’s MTA Accountable? (News, WNYC, MTR) The Daily News Serves Up Another Subway Opinion That Could Have Come From Cuomo’s Press Shop Richard Ravitch: Today’s NYC Business […]

Van Driver Reversed Into Man Crossing 120th Street in Kew Gardens, Killing Him (DNA) TransAlt Calls for Protected Bike Lane on Crescent Street in Astoria (DNA) After 10 Years of Summer Streets, It’s Time to Think Bigger (AMNY) The MTA Was Having Trouble Filling Maintenance Jobs Even Before Deciding to Staff Up (WSJ) Jay Walder: […]

Motorist Kills Man in Rego Park, Flees Scene (Post) Cuomo Moves Foye to MTA; Christie Crony to Head PANYNJ (Politico, NYT, WNYC, MTR, Post) Voice: MTA Subway Performance Metrics Don’t Really Help Diagnose Delays Prediction: More Cops Underground Won’t Fix the Subway (Gothamist) Train Arrival Clocks Are Live on the A/C and B/D Lines (Rag) De Blasio […]

Truck Drivers Working for Action Carting Have Killed Five People in NYC Since 2008 (DNA) City Hall’s Bike Strategy Should Be a Lot Bolder Than 10 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes a Year (Gothamist) NYPD Needs to Turn Over a New Leaf and Change Its Approach to Cyclist Safety (CityLimits) Cuomo Might Move His Man […]

DOT’s Using a Cycling Safety Index to Prioritize Next Round of Bike Infrastructure (NYT) Turning Cab Driver Kills Woman, 80, in Upper East Side Side Crosswalk (Post) More Weekend Carnage: UES (Post); Rosedale (News, Post); Westchester Ave (News); Hamilton Hts (Post) Rumor Has It Cuomo and Christie Plan to Sack Port Authority Chair John Degnan […]

Citi Bike Is Coming to Astoria (DNA) Cuomo Says “Cash” and Thruway Tolls Will Pay for His Tappan Zee (News, NYup) Cuomo’s Latest Transit Gimmick: Privatized Subway Stations (Politico, NYT, Gothamist, News) Gelinas: Make the MTA Fiscally Responsible Before Pouring in More $$$ (C&S) Dwyer: Subway Riders Need More Trains, Not Fewer Seats (NYT) Carol Kellermann: […]