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3 天之前 · IT’S WORKING: Initial Data Show Congestion Pricing Has Stemmed The Tide of Years of Increasing Traffic. Travel times are down an average of 34 percent across the eight bridges and tunnels into the Central Business District, which saw a 7.5-percent drop in overall traffic, according to MTA figures.
EXCLUSIVE: OMNY Debuts on Fair Fares After Delays
2024年5月1日 · New Yorkers who participate in the city's half-priced transit program Fair Fares will finally be able to use OMNY, the MTA's tap-and-go payment system — starting with a 90-day pilot for 50 riders, city and MTA officials said.
Modified 'Jaywalking' Repeal Passes Council - Streetsblog New …
2024年9月26日 · The Council on Thursday passed a bill to legalize walking into the street outside of crosswalks, sometimes known as "jaywalking," two weeks after holding off on the legislation due to advocates raising concerns that it put too much blame on pedestrians.. The lawmaker behind the proposal said that the bill still addresses the racist policing of ticketing pedestrians in the street, which ...
Crossing the T's: State Finally Signs Federal Agreement To Start ...
2024年11月22日 · She can't back out this time. The Hochul administration on Friday signed — finally — an agreement with the federal government authorizing congestion pricing, ending a nearly six-month holdout and finally clearing the way for the first central business district toll in America. Following Gov. Hochul's announcement last week that the congestion pricing toll would begin at $9 and rise to $15 ...
DOT: Council E-Bike Registration Bill is Not Necessary to Make …
2024年12月11日 · Enforce existing laws. Keep redesigning the streets for safety. Hold delivery app companies accountable. But don't create a new bureaucracy to register electric bikes. This is the prescription for safe streets put forward by Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez as he pushed ...
Analysis: Mayor Gets the 'W,' But Council Turns His Zoning Plan …
2024年11月22日 · Well, it’s a little more housing in some neighborhoods. The City Council's vote on Thursday to water down Mayor Adams's signature "City of Yes" rezoning — ending mandatory parking in areas with the best transit while keeping the costly mandate in low-density neighborhoods where it most hinders development — demonstrates the restive legislature's failure to institute progressive ...
Reps. Torres, AOC Join to Oppose Hochul Effort to Widen Cross …
2024年11月18日 · Talk about a Bronx cheer. Bronx Reps. Ritchie Torres and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have joined forces to oppose Gov. Hochul's plan to widen the Cross Bronx Expressway with a pair of "connector roads" that would, in the words of the Democratic stars, "undermines the very goals" of reconnecting communities severed by Robert Moses.. In a letter to the governor, the reps wholeheartedly opposed the ...
Congestion Pricing Has Begun! Here is the ONLY Explainer You Need
2025年1月5日 · Well here we are — the beginning of the age of congestion pricing. It finally happened after literal decades as a mere idea: One failed push in the aughts by then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg then a successful push in the 2010s by environmental and transit advocates with an eventual assist from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who now more than anything wants you to forget that he was the guy who twisted ...
Reckless: The 114 Precinct is an Island of High-Speed Chases In …
2024年10月28日 · It's an epidemic of recklessness — by Mayor Adams's cops. Despite years of community outrage, officers at the 114th Precinct in Astoria have drastically increased their use of controversial high-speed chases through the neighborhood's residential streets — a practice that culminated in the killing of a cyclist by a scofflaw fleeing police last week.
First Look: The DOT Finally Has Plans For Its Queensboro Bridge ...
2024年4月8日 · The streets on both ends of the Queensboro Bridge will be remade into safer, people-first spaces as part of the long-awaited reopening of the span's south outer roadway that will finally give cyclists and pedestrians a separate path to walk and ride on.