Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

The story of the day was Mayor de Blasio’s non-crackdown crackdown on placards, which David Meyer of Streetsblog exposed for the sham it is. The Times’s Winnie Hu broke the details of the new strategy a few hours before it was announced, but the Metro section never updated the story to emphasize how little de […]

So our friends at Transportation Alternatives walked alongside a 14th Street bus yesterday — and the bus won by just five seconds, as Gothamist reported. The goal was to show that 14th Street still needs a dedicated bus lane and car-free conditions that were promised as a mitigation during the now-scrubbed L-train shutdown. The lousy bus […]

It’s a busy night in the Streetsblog world tonight, what with dueling events. At 6 p.m., Friend of Streetsblog Charles Komanoff will participate in a panel discussion on congestion pricing with fellow FOS Jon Orcutt and Nicole Gelinas at the Center for Architecture. RSVP here. Then, at 6:30 p.m. at the Powerhouse in Dumbo, urban […]

The mayor will be in Bay Ridge at noon today to announce the 2019 Borough Pedestrian Safety Plans. This is exciting. Check back later today to get the full details. And if you want to brush up on the topic, here are the 2015 versions. For now, here’s the news: The Riders Alliance will accompany […]

In case you missed it or simply decided to take a few well-deserved days off, Mayor de Blasio moved quickly to distance himself from the Cuomo clown car from which he had been forcibly expelled when the Amazon deal exploded last week. The mayor penned an op-ed in the Times blaming Amazon for taking its […]