Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bill de Blasio

If NYC had citywide all-door boarding and proof-of-payment, these bus riders would be moving already. Photo: Bus Turnaround Coalition

While Public Officials Dawdle, the Collapse of NYC Bus Ridership Accelerates

By David Meyer | Feb 8, 2018 | No Comments

NYC bus ridership fell 6 percent in 2017, a stunning year-over-year decline that accelerates a decade-long trend. It's the largest annual percentage drop in bus ridership in 15 years, according to a new analysis by the Bus Turnaround Coalition.

Mayor de Blasio testifying in Albany yesterday. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

De Blasio Sounds Ready to Negotiate on Congestion Pricing

By David Meyer | Feb 6, 2018 | 11 Comments

Bill de Blasio spent the summer and fall knocking congestion pricing, but since the release of road pricing recommendations by Governor Cuomo's Fix NYC panel, the mayor has softened his stance.

Neftaly Ramirez, Eric Gonzalez, and Bill de Blasio

The Action Carting Driver Who Killed Neftaly Ramirez and Left the Scene Was Not Licensed to Drive the Truck

By Brad Aaron | Jan 31, 2018 | 5 Comments

Yet it appears Mayor de Blasio won't let the company's horrendous safety record interfere with its city contracts. Meanwhile, a lawsuit brought by Ramirez's family alleges shoddy investigative work on the part of NYPD and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.

That's NYPD Transportation Bureau Chief Thomas Chan at the far left in this picture with his boss, Mayor de Blasio back in 2017, when Chan and Hizzoner were boasting of their e-bike crackdown. Photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography Office

Helen Rosenthal Isn’t Leveling With Her Constituents About E-Bikes

By Brad Aaron | Jan 26, 2018 | 13 Comments

Rosenthal, a vocal supporter of de Blasio's e-bike crackdown, is exaggerating the e-bike threat to her constituents and misrepresenting the way NYPD is conducting enforcement.

De Blasio told delivery workers his e-bike crackdown wouldn’t hurt “the little guy.” But that’s who’s bearing the brunt of it. Photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography Office

As Predicted, de Blasio’s E-Bike Crackdown Is Costing Delivery Workers

By Brad Aaron | Jan 25, 2018 | 12 Comments

The 20th Precinct, where de Blasio announced his e-bike crackdown, says $500 fines are being imposed on working cyclists, who must pay up to get their bikes back from NYPD.

The block of Amsterdam Avenue where the driver of an illegal, oversized tractor-trailer critically injured a man yesterday. Photo via Google Street View

E-Bikes Are Banned in NYC, But Crush a Man With an Illegal Big Rig and de Blasio Won’t Care

By Brad Aaron | Jan 23, 2018 | 18 Comments

While Mayor de Blasio and NYPD punish delivery workers for riding electric bicycles, drivers who run people over with semi trucks are not being penalized in any way, even when the truck is too large to be operated legally on city streets.

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