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New Jersey Assembly Member Annette Chaparro (top) grilled Motor Vehicle Commission Administrator Latrecia Littles-Floyd about the state's easily counterfeited paper license plates at a hearing on Monday.

N.J. Lawmaker Proposes Eliminating Paper Temporary License Plates to Fight Fraud

By Jesse Coburn | May 4, 2023 | No Comments

The proposal was floated at a legislative hearing Wednesday in Trenton, where Streetsblog's recent three-part investigation into temporary license plate fraud was widely cited.

Adam Uster was killed on Monday in Brooklyn.

Cycling Advocate Killed By Trucker on Dangerous Brooklyn Street; Last Words from Mother: ‘Be Safe’

By Julianne Cuba | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

A cycling activist and member of Transportation Alternatives was killed while biking home from a Brooklyn grocery store on a dangerous street on Monday, according to his family and police.

All of these people can get automated subway service alerts again. Photo: Dave Colon

Twitter Citizen Takes Automated Subway Service Alerts Into His Own Hands

By Dave Colon | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

The MTA has left Twitter, but the platform may yet have a future for straphangers.

This kind of side-loading truck in Barcelona is not available in the United States ... yet. Photo: DSNY

Sanitation: Trash Containerization Can Be Done With a Historic Reuse of Parking; Pilot to Start This Fall

By Kevin Duggan | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

The city can containerize its trash — and it will start testing that theory in Upper Manhattan.

McGuinness Boulevard is like a highway cutting through Greenpoint — but not for long, promises the DOT (inset). File photo

EXCLU: McGuinness Blvd. to Go On Road Diet for Protected Bike Lanes

By Kevin Duggan | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

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

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 2, 2023 | No Comments

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.

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