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Cyclist Takes NYPD to Court Over Improper Red Light Tickets
It's getting so that you have to sue the city to get the cops to start following the law.
December 13, 2023
MTA’s Queens Bus Redesign: $30M in Service, 8 More Routes, Skepticism from Brooks-Powers
The improvements mean that 200,000 more people will get 10-minute-or-better service, among other things. Who could complain?
December 12, 2023
Tuesday’s Headlines: A Bridge Too Far Edition
Why would an agency that spent so much money and political capital to finish a protected bike lane from Third Avenue west to the bridge intentionally block the bike lane and force cyclists from the relative safety of their painted protection into a busy roadway?
December 12, 2023
Raising the Regional Bar: Why the MTA 20-Year Needs Assessment Inevitably Falls Flat
The document fails to accomplish its stated mission of bringing the New York region into the 21st century — half-filling a supposedly bottomless transit cookie jar with mostly stale cookies.
December 12, 2023
City Adds Another Moving Lane to Appease Car Drivers Near Williamsburg Bridge
Induced demand isn't just a theory — it's apparently a policy of the city Department of Transportation.
December 11, 2023
Feds One Step Closer to Requiring Safety Standards for Lithium-ion Batteries
Safety standards are fine, but the responsibility for securing better power packs will still fall on the lowest-paid workers in our city.
December 11, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: What an Historic Day Edition
It was such a big deal that all sorts of strangers in the press corps showed up. Plus other news.
December 7, 2023
Council Repeals Decade-Old Law that Stalled Bike Lane Installation
The City Council repealed a notorious. out-dated law that imposed lengthy delays on the city before it could break ground on new bike lanes.
December 7, 2023
Reporter’s Notebook: Will Eric Adams Ever Publicly Embrace Congestion Pricing?
The governor, the head of the MTA and the city's leading transit thinkers all celebrated congestion pricing on Tuesday as an historic moment while Mayor Adams spent Tuesday failing to live up to it.
December 6, 2023
Eyes on the Street: ‘Daylighting’ NYC Intersections Needs More Than Paint and Signs
We're gonna need more than paint and signs.
December 5, 2023
