Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Planning Department Looking to Reduce Parking Requirements for Commercial Development (Crain’s) Albany Could Fund Congestion Tolling Tech in the Budget, Leave Details for Later (Crain’s) Uber Comes Out Swinging Against Assembly Dems’ Lame For-Hire Trip Charges (News) Gelinas and Weisbrod: Cuomo’s State-Mandated Value Capture Bound to Fail (Post) Gateway Chief “Just Knows” Trump Will Fund […]

Driver Hits 11-Year-Old Boy Near Staten Island School — NYPD Blames Child (Advance 1, 2) De Blasio Knows He Can’t Count on Albany to Make NYC Streets Safer (News) Advocates Talk With Errol Louis About de Blasio’s Response to Ninth Street Child Deaths (NY1) Daily News Applauds Mayor’s Punt; More: AMNY, WNYC, BK Paper, Post Related: […]

Another Day, Another Cuomo Ploy to Avoid Taking Responsibility for His MTA (Politico) State Lawmakers Omit Congestion Pricing From Senate and Assembly Budgets (AMNY) Jeff Klein and Senate GOP Want to Steal Transit Funds From City Budget Instead (News) Daily News Editorial Board Distracted by Heastie’s Cab Surcharge Distraction Republicans Plot to Trumpwhisper Gateway Funds […]

School Bus Driver Kills Elise Hellinger, 58, in Kew Gardens Crosswalk (Post, NY1, AMNY, News) Feds Sue MTA for Failing to Make Subway Stations Accessible (NYT, Politico, News) Cuomo’s Former Right Hand Man Joe Percoco Convicted on Corruption Charges (NYT 1, 2; Politico 1, 2) Phil Murphy’s Proposed First Budget Would Prioritize Transit (NYT, WNYC) De Blasio […]

Hundreds of Kids and Parents March to End the Killing of Children With Cars (AMNY, Post, Patch) Assembly Dems Chicken Out With a Weak-Sauce, Cabs-Only Version of Congestion Pricing (News) Subways Could Be Sped Up Overnight; “Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed Trains Down” (Voice) MTA Deficits Loom as Payroll and Debt Costs Rise (Bloomberg) […]

Paul White: It’s Up to de Blasio and Cuomo to Stop the Killing of Children in Traffic Collisions (News) Eric Gonzalez Will Examine Dorothy Bruns’ Medical Records Before Pressing Charges (Bklyn Paper) Sonia Palacios Lost Her Brother to a Driver Who Knew He Shouldn’t Have Been Behind the Wheel (Post) Ruthie Ann Miles’ Unborn Child […]