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Speaker Adams Offers Misinformation on Speed Cameras
Concern about speed cameras is popular among drivers, anti-government folk and, apparently, the Council Speaker, too.
January 21, 2022
Two New Busways Open in Jamaica, But Locals, Pols Still Wary for Some Reason
Will it be the most “impactful bus improvements” in the city’s history, as Mayor de Blasio called it? Well, it's a start.
November 1, 2021
DOT (Finally) Moves Forward With Jamaica Busway, Announced in Mid-2020
The city has started installing a pair of long-delayed parallel busways in Downtown Jamaica, despite local pols’ objections that the agency is simultaneously doing too much and too little to help the neighborhood.
September 30, 2021
Queens Pols Want a Jamaica Busway — Just Not Where de Blasio Put It
Outer-borough tiff shows how mayor's approach comes up short.
September 2, 2020
Council: NYPD Must Stop Discriminatory Social Distancing Enforcement
“We are seeing the emergence of stop and frisk 2.0," said one Council Member.
May 24, 2020
Mayor’s ‘Open Streets’ Leave Out Neighborhoods That Need It Most
A map created by the Trust for Public Land reinforces the inequitable distribution of open streets so far.
May 21, 2020
Cops Finally Charge Driver Who Ran Over and Killed Queens Senior Last Fall
Police have arrested the driver who killed an elderly pedestrian last fall — six months after the fatal Queens crash.
March 9, 2020
City Council Failed to Pass Waste Hauling Reforms the Day a Garbage Truck Driver Killed a Cyclist in Williamsburg
On Tuesday, a garbage truck driver struck and killed Mario Lopez on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. The same day, the City Council failed to enact waste carting reforms that would reduce garbage truck traffic on Williamsburg streets.
December 21, 2017
Opposing the Move NY Plan Does No Favors for Southeast Queens
Four highways encircle New York’s 27th City Council district, a largely African-American section of southeast Queens: the Grand Central Parkway on the north, the Van Wyck Expressway on the west, the Southern State Parkway on the south, and the Cross Island Parkway on the east.
June 14, 2016
DOT Scraps Bus Lanes in Kew Gardens Hills for Flushing-Jamaica SBS
This afternoon, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill that requires DOT to work with the MTA on a citywide Bus Rapid Transit plan to be updated every two years. The vote came a day after DOT told bus lane opponents in eastern Queens that it will water down a Select Bus Service proposal in their neighborhood.
April 16, 2015