We spent most of the day running and most of the night watching DOT present their plan for 34th Avenue, so let’s jump right into the news:
- Here’s proof that every fatal car crash may not be the driver’s fault. (NYDN)
- As we reported a few weeks ago, the MTA announced that it is bringing a small amount of secure bicycle parking to Grand Central Terminal (NYDN, amNY). Really, six parking spaces is about 1 / 50th of the immediate need.
- The Civilian Complaints Commission said 65 cops should be punished for misconduct at the George Floyd / Black Lives Matter rallies last year. (NYDN)
- Mayor de Blasio said in his morning press that restaurants that do not use their Covid dining shacks will have to ditch them in favor of parking. (amNY)
- Do MTA’s New Subway Cars Have the DC Blues? (amNY)
- The Parks Department is not only anti-cyclist, it is anti-hawk, duck, squirrel and owl! (The city)
- We were happy to see the Board of Health rightly declare that racism is a public health crisis. Now, maybe the city’s board of directors and health ministry can get off the Vision Zero bench and declare the cars a public health crisis as well. (NY Post, Gothamist)
- Early voting begins on Saturday (locations here), and Gothamist is the latest outlet to offer an election day guide (hint: there’s more on the ballot than vegan vs. mad cat).
- MTA says its $ 90 million bus command center is unusable because an outside contractor didn’t do the job – meaning the MTA is throwing its bus center contractor under the, uh, bus . (Why didn’t The Post pick this as the lede? It’s tabloid gold, Jerry! Gold!)
- See you later, slave oligarch! (NY Post, NY Times)
- Car rampage in Queens (NY Post) and Brooklyn (NY Post)
- The Five Points neighborhood celebrated in mob movies finally got a city road sign. (6 square feet)
- And finally, did future mayor Eric Adams say cyclists have dirty laundry?
“My claim to fame is that I am the ordinary candidate for blue collar workers.” @ericadamsfornyc says you’ll see him riding his bike, taking the metro, and washing his dirty towels at the laundromat.
– Joe Anuta (@joeanuta) October 18, 2021
