Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

How Many People Will Ride the City’s New Ferry Service? (NYT, News, Post, AMNY, WNYC) Why Are Subway Elevators and Escalators Broken? Because the MTA Doesn’t Maintain Them (News, AMNY) Daily News: MTA’s Not Doing Enough to Make the Subways Wheelchair-Accessible Driver Critically Injures 12-Year-Old Boy in Harlem (News) City Hall Allocates $17 Million for Safety […]

New York Can’t Afford to Wait 50 Years for Modern Subway Signals (NYT) Kimmelman: Cuomo’s Not Thinking Big Enough on Penn Station (NYT) Surprise — There Are Still Too Many Cars on the New Kosciuszko Bridge, Which Is Still Free (NYT) Garbage Truck Driver Hits Car on Bruckner Boulevard, Killing 3-Year-Old Girl (Post, NBC4) Lawsuit: NYPD Bosses […]

Rosa Ramirez, Struck by Bronx Motorcyclist Who Left Scene, Declared Brain Dead (DNA) Public, Officials Still Largely in the Dark Regarding Penn Station Work (NYT, Politico, AMNY, News) General Contractors Association of New York: Let’s Privatize Penn (Post) Cuomo Spent a Day Glorifying a Bridge — And How Was Your Commute? (WNYC, Politico, News) The Post Editorial Board Might Have Spiked Bo Dietl’s Mayoral […]

De Blasio Budget: Greenway Upgrade Is the Marquee Transpo Project (Politico, NYT, AMNY, News) Cuomo: I Would Do a Better Job Running Penn Station (Post); Amtrak Plan Expected Today (AMNY) RPA: L Train Project Is an Opportunity for the MTA (Vice via @TransitCenter) Start Planning for May 4 If You Rely on Hudson River Greenway Access (NYT) […]

How to Get Away With Murder in NYC — Do It With a Car (Voice) Penn Station Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better (NYT, Post) Tuesday Evening Commute Was a Mess (Post, NY1) Judge Blocks Trump Attack on Sanctuary Cities (NYT); Ruling Could Be Moot? (Politico) MTA Not Doing Enough to Improve Accessibility, Says Class Action Suit (NYT) […]

Amtrak Running Triage on the Nation’s Busiest Intercity Rail Corridor (NYT) MTA Board Members Bash Amtrak’s Management of Penn Station (NY1) Cuomo Pulls Out All the Stops to Celebrate Expensive New Highway Bridge (NY1) Passenger Injured By Drunk Off-Duty Cop Has Died From Her Injuries (ABC7, News) Motorcyclist Inflicts Severe Head Trauma on Woman on Bruckner […]