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DOT Reveals Transformational Plan For Flatbush Ave. — But Needs To Get The Details Right - Streetsblog New York City The bus-first transformation is an ambitious project that could speed buses by 20 percent while also calming the roadway's notorious traffic. But it's not perfect.

Great stuff from @annieweinstock.bsky.social & @nyc.streetsblog.org. Hopefully this proceeds at a pace for 2026 implementation and can be owned by the next administration nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/04/d...

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

The #Tesla #Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

The 2nd Ave. subway is of course near and dear to my heart and infamous in NYC history, but the IBX is the most transformative NYC transit project in our lives. We should of course always demand more transit, but it's good to be excited for this one.

A map showing the ETA's proposal for the now confirmed All Faiths Cemetery Tunnel on the IBX

Today Hochul and the MTA confirmed that the planned end-to-end runtime of the IBX has been cut a full 10 min (down to 32min), and projected ridership is up 41k to 160k/day.

This is the power of grade separation and the All Faiths tunnel.

Kudos to the Gov and MTA!

www.youtube.com/live/EhaB99v...

Reason for that was fear that a subsequent administration would seek to undo the Times Sq changes, but doing all 3 of the key Bway sites was too heavy a lift, and Times Sq is the key to low traffic Bway

The concern was well-founded! nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/08/20/i...

Compare different sites along Bway - Times Sq was rebuilt in stone & concrete in a few years but it took massive intervention by multiple commissioners & senior people to make it happen. Meanwhile, not a shovel has hit the ground for redesigns 1st implemented in Madison Sq (2008) or Herald Sq (2009)

City Commits $45 Million to Redo Dangerous Three-Way Intersection in The Bronx The street reconstruction contract comes 17 years and three mayoral administrations after the fix was first proposed.

I don't know exactly where the line is between laws requiring certain procurement processes & SOPs, but the SOPs absent anyone in leadership driving the process can be incredibly slow www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/29/e...

Symptom of a city hall & agency commissioners more devoted to ass covering than action

Will generate massive excitement for the status quo LOL

B. RILEY, on jobs:

“.. unambiguously soft and a reflection of the trade and tariff impact on economic growth. .. The three-month average coming to today’s report was 150 thousand. The new three-month average of job creation is now 80 thousand. Not great news.”

Unsurprising bad jobs report. Just 73,000 added in July, and most of those were health care.

Even worse, May and June jobs numbers revised down by 258,000. Awful.

Companies don't want to create jobs in Trump's chaos economy with weakening rule of law and rampant corruption.

Shady & corrupt to the end

The G train rules

"'Eric Adams is willing to risk someone getting killed on Bedford Avenue in order to secure the vote from this community' a City official told Hell Gate last month"

Motherfucking wind farms…

Commie corridor

Cycling advocates have won.

The Ford government's plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto violates the Charter, Ontario's Superior Court rules.

Story to come.

#onpoli #topoli

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

This was announced as 150 million people across the country were under heat alerts.

Fossil fuel interests spent nearly $100 million on Trump's re-election. Then the industry pumped $19 million into his inaugural fund.

They're cashing in at the expense of the rest of us.

Reminder: Eric Adams is an incumbent Mayor polling at 7%

No big surprise here, but Mamdani's locked down the non-car owning, transit-riding demographic.

Dropkick Murphys for the win at Warped Tour over the weekend in Long Beach playing their song "First Class Loser" with an epic backdrop video 🔥

Looking forward *even more* to the door hitting Adams’ ass on his way out

Photograph by yours truly.

Once again we’ve had to cross state lines to see the inauguration of new secure 🚲 parking at a transit station. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop with advocates & OoneePod at the new 🅿️ facility at the Grove St PATH station

🇪🇸 Mavi Garcia, what a win !! 🏆🏆

#TDFF2025 | #TDFFLive

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

Been a while since I came out to Summer Streets. Really enjoying my 1st non-Manhattan edition, on Vernon Blvd. Very relaxed, neighborhoody. Broke out the 🛼🛼 for 1st since ‘21ish

Holy shit. Check this out:

Lander finished the ranked-choice process with 151,463 votes, and he ranked second on 308,683 Mamdani ballots.

That adds up to a minimum of 460,146 votes cast for Lander in the primary.

Andrew Cuomo's final round tally was 443,229, nearly seventeen thousand less.

Someone make me a T-shirt that says, “My kid dunked @davecolon.bsky.social at the @nygroove.nyc fundraiser”

Which corridor in NYC is best suited for BRT? @walterhook.bsky.social and I just completed a new technical analysis. Check out our blog piece: reorientations.medium.com/where-should...