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JSK and Lou Riccio: Pass the Speed Cam Bill Because We Can’t “Sign and Signal Our Way to Safety” (NYT) Only Thing Standing in the Way of Speed Cam Extension Is a Couple of Senate Republicans (Advance) EDC Freight Plan: $100M to Shift Truck Trips to Barge, Rail, and Air (Crain’s) Four Years After Daniel […]

Families for Safe Streets Takes It Straight to John Flanagan at His Suffolk Home (CBS 880) Rampant Mechanical Defects Slowing Down Train Service, Subway Workers Tell the Post In 10 Years, DOT’s Plaza Program Has Turned Space for Cars Into 74 Places for People (NYT) Corey Johnson’s “DOT Ombudsman” Bill Is a NIMBY Empowerment Act […]

Maybe Cuomo Can Fix the Subway With His Inexhaustible Supply of Excuses (News, AMNY, Post) Gelinas: Without a Working Subway, Kiss Rising Employment in South Bronx and Harlem Goodbye (Post) Cuomo Points Finger at Senate’s Speed Cam Failure: “This Is All Political Fingerpointing” (SoP) Jim Dwyer Breaks Down the Latest “Feints and Fakeouts” in the […]

City to Show Commercial Carting Reforms in Closed-Door Session Today (Politico) Deep Dive Into “Nocturnal Wild West” of Commercial Carting and Effort to Transform It (Comm Obs) Inside the City Council Maneuvering to Foil Zone-Based Commercial Waste Collection (Crain’s) NYPD Arrests Prince Edmonds, 19, for Killing Robert Craigwell With Van at S.I. Courthouse (Advance) How […]

De Blasio and Byford Tussle Over Transit Funding (News, Politico, AMNY, NYT, NY1, Post) Lame Bus Priority on Williamsburg Bridge Shaping Up as Weakest Link in L Train Shutdown Plan (Voice) One Year After Cuomo Declared a Subway Emergency, What Difference Did It Make? (Curbed) Strong Words From the Mayor on Commercial Carting Reform (NY1) Errol […]

Traffic Deaths Down 13% So Far This Year — While NYC Still Has Speed Cams (AMNY, NYT, News) REBNY Making Moves to Squelch Desperately Needed Commercial Carting Reforms (C&S) De Blasio Finally Gets to Talk Andy Byford’s Ear Off About Bus Lanes and Transit Signal Priority (NYT) AMNY: City E-Bike Rules Clear Way for Bike-Share Companies, […]