Transit God Corey Johnson Parrots Arthur Schwartz’s Bad Faith Busway Language
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"I am concerned that some of the side streets will turn into parking lots," Johnson told WNYC's Brian Lehrer.
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Appeals Judge Slams The Brakes On 14th Street Busway
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"These so-called progressives' effort to stymie the plan to speed up bus service on 14th Street is a bad-faith effort to preserve a cars-first status quo, and frankly, a waste of time," one transit advocate said in response.
Queens’s Next Top Prosecutor Dodges Whether She’d Boot CB Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die
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The Queens Beep still refuses to join her colleagues in condemning the community board member and city employee, who said at a public meeting that pedestrians “deserve” to die if they cross the street while looking at their phones.
Lander to DOT: Nice Bike Lane on Fourth Ave, But Finish It, OK?
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The good news was undermined by the admission that the DOT plan does not currently include a stretch between First Street and Atlantic Avenue.
How Many Bad Drivers Are There in New York State? DMV Doesn’t Know — And Doesn’t Seem to Care!
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DMV "does not have a way to know which records in our possession might answer the questions you have asked," the agency's Freedom of Information Law and Subpoena Unit told Streetsblog.
Trottenberg Op-Ed Exclusive: Riding the ‘Green Wave’ — and the Choppy Waters Ahead
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Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg graciously agreed to write us a column about the challenges and the hope of Vision Zero. It's must-read time again at Streetsblog.