Twitter Citizen Takes Automated Subway Service Alerts Into His Own Hands
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The MTA has left Twitter, but the platform may yet have a future for straphangers.
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Sanitation: Trash Containerization Can Be Done With a Historic Reuse of Parking; Pilot to Start This Fall
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The city can containerize its trash — and it will start testing that theory in Upper Manhattan.
EXCLU: McGuinness Blvd. to Go On Road Diet for Protected Bike Lanes
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The city plans to install protected bike lanes on both sides of deadly McGuinness Boulevard and remove a car lane in each direction as part of a major redesign of the highway-like north Brooklyn road, Streetsblog has learned.
Parks Department Finally Agrees It’s ‘Inappropriate’ to Let Drivers Defile Black History Sculpture
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A top Parks Department official has admitted it's "inappropriate" that his agency has allowed drivers to defile a memorial to enslaved Africans by parking on the plaza in Foley Square — but the agency also said it is thinking about a fix, albeit with the NYPD.
Advocates Urge Feds To Not Weaken Already-Weak Crash Reporting Guidelines
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A new set of federal crash reporting guidelines could actually encourage cities to collect less data about the systemic factors behind the national traffic violence epidemic by treating basic information about road design at crash sites as optional.
Say Cheese! State Budget Lets MTA Bus Cameras Zap Bus, Loading Zone and Bike Lane Blockers
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Picture day is coming for double parkers and bus and bike lane blockers — thanks to the budget deal in Albany.