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Big News: De Blasio to Announce Central Park Car Ban Today (News, NY1, Post) Electeds Suddenly Fed Up With Out of Whack Bridge Tolls (NYT) DOT Releases 2018 Bike Map/”Official Free Parking Guide” (Bike Snob/TransAlt) TransAlt Leads Rally for Improvements to Boston Road (Bx Times) A Police Chase in Staten Island Last Week Could Have Easily […]

Paul White: Dockless Bike-Share Must Come With More Street Space for Cycling (AMNY) Related: We’re Looking at You, James Oddo (Advance) Related: Developers Expect Dockless Bikes to Raise Transit Desert Property Values (Crain’s) Brad Lander Wants Clarity on MTA Signal Repairs (KCP) New LIRR President Phil Eng Speaks With the Times NYPD Ignores Law Requiring […]

RPA Proposes Shake-Up of Metro Commuter Rail (AMNY) MTA and NJ Transit Lag on Positive Train Control Upgrades (Politico) Students Tell Vice How Their Lives Will Be Upended by the L Shutdown Accessibility Advocate Jessica Murray Has the Skinny on Recent Ride With Andy Byford Byford to Meet With Upper West Siders Tomorrow (Rag) Voice […]

Yesterday Morning’s Downpour Was Too Much for the Subways to Handle (News, NY1, Post) MTA’s Modern, Failure-Prone Signal System at Bergen Street Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet (News, AMNY) CityLab Reviews a Century of Subway Politics and Stalled Expansions The IDC Comes to an Official But Unceremonious End (NYT, Politico) State Senate Passes Bill […]

World’s Most Expensive Commuter Rail Project Keeps Getting More Expensive (AMNY) Caving to Marty Golden, Bill Colton, and Company, MTA Delays B82 Select Bus Service (KCP) Drunk Driver Careens Onto Flatbush Ave Sidewalk, Injuring Several (News, NY1) Andy Byford Cares About Subway Accessibility, But Does the Rest of the MTA? (AMNY) Chronically Glitchy Subway Signals at […]

Cuomo’s Not About to Stop Extorting Straphangers (Gotham Gazette) NYPD Halts Subway for 90 Minutes to Investigate Pepper-Spraying (AMNY; News; Post 1, 2) … And That Was Just One Factor in Yesterday’s Morning Meltdown (Voice) Extra Extra: Andrew Cuomo Is Responsible for the Subway (News) Liz Krueger: Albany’s Gotta Finish the Job and Get Congestion Pricing […]