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NYPD Christens New Busway with Livingston Street Tow-A-Palooza
The launch of New York City's newest busway was heralded Tuesday by the mid-afternoon arrival of NYPD tow trucks.
November 15, 2023
Vision? Zero: Prospect Heights Seeks Daylighting for a Neighborhood with None
No streets are clear of parked cars as required under state law — and locals see it as evidence that the area’s streets "really are unsafe.”
November 14, 2023
City Traffic Helps Make Bus Service Unbearable, Expensive And Difficult To Improve
Bus riders didn't win the same kind of improvements as subway riders. And here's why.
November 14, 2023
‘Blue Highway’ Blues: A Maritime Freight Pier is Coming to Downtown Heliport … By 2029
It's progress, but does it really take five years to build a barge — especially one that's been in talks for five years already?
November 14, 2023
Want More Rapid Bus Transit? Build Real Bus Rapid Transit
Johannesburg, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Bogotá and even Cleveland can do it, so why can’t New York?
November 13, 2023
‘Death Waiting to Happen’: North Brooklynites Call for Safer Morgan Ave
The avenue is a key, but deadly, link in north Brooklyn.
November 12, 2023
Livingston Street ‘Protected’ Busway Launches Tuesday Outside Transit Offices in Brooklyn
MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey urged transit workers to "follow the rules" ahead of the city's transformation of the downtown Brooklyn strip to a one-way busway.
November 10, 2023
City Hall Functionary is Quietly Interfering with Critical Street Safety Initiatives: Sources
"He only was going to raise the concerns that you’re going to hear from car drivers," one official said. "He’s never been on the pro-pedestrianization, pro-bike-lane side.”
November 10, 2023
Amazon Stops Selling Illegal Batteries After City Cease-and-Desist Letter
Following a cease-and-desist letter from the city, Amazon, at least, has partially reformed its illegal ways.
November 10, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects
Once again, transportation funds that could be used to repair streets, roads and bridges are instead diverted into costly, damaging highway expansion projects. Here's this year's list of the worst of the worst.
November 10, 2023
