Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

De Blasio: MTA, Not NYC, Should Subsidize Fares for New Yorkers With Low Incomes (News, Gothamist) Related: TransitCenter Explains How TfL Uses Payment Tech to Cap Fares for Cost-Conscious Riders Yesterday’s Vision Zero Happy Talk Rings Hollow to the Voice; More: Gothamist, Post, AMNY, News Hank Miller: Funding Street Redesigns Would Show de Blasio Is Committed to Vision Zero […]

Cuomo Has Been Coordinating Attacks on Port Authority Chair John Degnan (Politico) NYC Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths on the Rise in 2016 as Vehicle Occupant Deaths Fall (News) More Coverage of Yesterday’s Council Hearing on Bike-Share (News, Gothamist, AMNY, Post, Advance) Police Search for Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Orlando Savino on November 17 on Nereid Ave (BxTimes) Turning Driver Seriously Injures Woman Crossing […]

Newsday to Cuomo: Don’t Stop With Cashless Tolls — Make the Price of NYC Tolls Fair NYC Will Pay $1.7 Billion to Fix 1.5 Miles of the BQE, Which Drivers Pay Nothing to Use (NYT) Higher Fares Are Hitting Low-Income New Yorkers Hard; MTA Board Debates What to Do (DNA) Ydanis and Other Council Members Want […]

De Blasio Doubts Trump Could Cut Off Federal Funding to NYC (Politico) Former Cuomo Confidantes Percoco and Kaloyeros Indicted in Bribery Probe (NYT, Politico) 1 Rush Hour L Train = 2,000 Cars, and Other Fun Facts From RPA Tish James Recommends Ways to Improve Transit Access to NYC Airports (AMNY) Motorist Arrested After Killing 88-Year-Old Savas Maounis in Astoria […]

De Blasio: New Yorkers Fear Trump’s Policies; Team Trump: No, They Fear Bike Lanes (NYT) Nadler: Port Authority Chair John Degnan Acting “Tyrannically” to Build Midtown Bus Terminal (News) Cuomo Expected to Assert More Control of Port Authority Through New Board Picks (Crain’s) Driver Strikes and Critically Injures 11-Year-Old Boy on Willets Point Blvd; No Charges (TL) Truck […]

Family and Loved Ones Remember Victims of Traffic Violence (AMNY) Schumer’s Not Trump’s Friend, But Could Become His Enabler (Politico) Simcha Felder Will Caucus With Senate Republicans, Making Democratic Control Unlikely (News) “Trumplock” Is Going to Happen Anytime Trump Leaves/Returns to His Hometown (News) De Blasio: Fifth Ave Will Remain Open to Traffic. Okay, But […]