Drivers who find themselves behind or ahead of the Q4, Q5, Q84, N4 or the N4X buses on Merrick Boulevard between Hillside Avenue and Springfield Boulevard have a 60-day warning period for bus lane violations starting Sept. 21.
The specified bus lanes are a part of Mayor de Blasio’s Better Buses initiative to improve bus speeds by expanding automated camera enforcement, according to the city Department of Transportation.
With the in-person opening of public schools last week and its accompanying flurry of excitement and pedagogy, emerged a problem that has become intensified from years past: drop-off traffic.While transporting their kids to class, parents rep…
Opponents of the proposed LaGuardia AirTrain have filed suit in federal court to block the proposed $2 billion rail link between LaGuardia and the No. 7 train stop at Mets-Willets Point.The six-page petition was filed Monday with the U.S. Cou…
Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday officially signed off on the fourth and final stage of the ongoing redesign of Queens Boulevard.The project, announced in Forest Hills, will include two miles of bike lanes, traffic lane redesign and improvements …
A “Better Buses” busway pilot will continue on schedule in Downtown Jamaica despite backlash from a previous initiative on Merrick Boulevard that was implemented last year and led to a recent modification of bus enforcement times as a result …
The MTA announced last week that thousands of security cameras have been installed at all 472 subway stations ahead of schedule to enhance security, deliver a decline in major felonies and to increase arrests.The initiative to accelerate the …
Operators of Revel scooters no longer can take the blue two-wheelers across two bridges into Manhattan as per an agreement last week between the company and the city’s Department of Transportation.Revel announced last week that it was remotel…
The union that represents about 5,000 flight attendants at JetBlue Airways has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it is violating New York City and New York State paid sick leave laws.In a statement issued after the suit was f…
City Councilman and avowed Mets fan Jimmy Van Bramer greeted Joan Ford, widow of Astoria native and New York Yankees Hall of Famer Whitey Ford, on Sept. 18 as the city co-named the corner of 43rd Street and 34th Avenue for the legendary lefty…
A Fresh Meadows traffic circle was outfitted with new signals, lights and delineators to increase pedestrian safety this summer, changes that area residents say have caused an insufferable increase in vehicular congestion.“It’s a complete nig…
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