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It’s Official — NYC Budget Includes Half-Price MetroCards for Poor New Yorkers (NYT, AMNY) How Does Andy Byford Plan to Speed Up the Resignaling of the Subway? (NYT) If Albany Doesn’t Act on Speed Cams, They’re Putting Older New Yorkers at Risk (Eagle) These Are the NYC Streets With the Worst Speeding Problem, According to […]

Daily News: Failure to Reauthorize Speed Cameras “Would Be Downright Criminal” Marty Golden Busy in Albany Trying to Gut Accessibility Rules for Uber Et Al (Politico) Drunk Trash Hauler Veers Off Street, Pulverizing Sidewalk, Trees, Cars in Borough Park (Post, News) Once Approved, Fair Fares Shouldn’t Take Long to Implement (WNYC) Brooklyn Spoke: Present Street Safety […]

Fair Fares Deal Reportedly Imminent (Politico, NYT, NY1, AMNY, Post); Related: NY1 Paul White and Scott Stringer: Albany Speed Cam Restrictions “Shameful” and “Deliberate” (News) Times Dings State Senate for Renaming a Bridge While Camera Bill Languishes Senate Passes Golden Bill to Expand MetroCard Transfers (KCP) Gateway Managers: We’ll Start Building and Hope for the Best! (WNYC) […]

What State Lawmakers Do While Not Protecting People From Speeding Drivers (AMNY, NY1) Felder Still Insisting School Speed Cameras Come With Guns (Politico) Jim Brennan, Basically: Straphangers Have No Idea How Bad Albany Has Screwed Them (GG) Lhota to MTA Board on Conflicts of Interest: Trust Me (WSJ — Paywall) Johnson Holding Out for Fair Fares in City […]

Gothamist Tallies the Cost of Not Fixing the Subway People Will Shield Cyclists With Their Bodies on 43rd/Skillman Today (AMNY) Mark Gjonaj, State Electeds, and Bronx CB 11 Look to Derail Plan for Safer Morris Park Ave. (Bx Times) More on Council Initiative to Penalize Repeat Reckless Drivers: Gothamist, AMNY, Post Kiera Feldman Talks With […]

LIRR and Metro-North Could Do So Much More for NYC Residents (City Limits) Growing Number of People Violently Unleash Their Subway Frustrations on MTA Workers (Post) Bradley Tusk: New York Governors Lack Political Incentive to Fix the MTA (Observer) Ben Kabak: “The Governor Doesn’t Appreciate the Transit System” If Only There Was Some Slack in […]