Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

The new billboard above several congested lanes of traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York. Photo: Julianne Cuba

City Launches a New Vision Zero Billboard Campaign — With Little Proof that Such Things Work

By Julianne Cuba | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

The mayor decides to spend $4 million on public education — money that one activist called "a waste" and whose utility the Department of Transportation could not provide.

It is so hard to get reckless drivers off the road.

Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

HIzzoner said he would use his octopine enforcement arms to "find [reckless drivers] proactively, and get them off the streets." Details, however, have not been provided.

Mayor Adams and Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez led a pack of activists on an Earth Day ride through Downtown Brooklyn and over the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. Photo: Mark Gorton

Mayor Adams Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Street Safety

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 23, 2022 | No Comments

The Street Master Plan gets a much-needed boost.

Monday’s Headlines: Adams’s 100 Days Edition

By Streetsblog | Apr 11, 2022 | No Comments

The weekend was filled with anodyne report card stories timed to the artificial benchmark of Mayor Adams's 100th day in office on Sunday. We break it down, plus provide other news.

Mayor Eric Adams is all-in on free buses, but needs to get more red paint on the ground.

DOT May (May?!) Fund the Streets Master Plan For This Year, But Advocates Want More

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 17, 2022 | No Comments

Pols and advocates are demanding that the city actually fund the long-awaited Streets Master Plan, which requires scores of new miles of protected bike lanes and bus lanes, cleaner sidewalks, and car-free streets.

Turning 34th Avenue into a permanent linear park is child's play, Mayor Adams showed, but didn't say, on Sunday. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

SEE IT! Mayor Adams Visits 34th Avenue — But His Plans for ‘Gold Standard’ Open Street Remain Unclear

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 20, 2022 | No Comments

But Council Member Shekar Krishnan, who lobbied Adams for the conversion from road to resource, is optimistic that the mayor gets it.

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