"Here’s the key: state and federal governments will pay cities all day and every day to make bad financial decisions and transactions that are not in the broad financial interest of their own residents. They have lots of programs to do this, highway expansions being just one of them."
Also....I guess the #StrongTowns people, like the #StreetsblogNYC are still waiting for last call at the N*zi bar.
Adams caves and kills (part of) another people-first DOT project. Now southbound #bikenyc will have to cross vehicular traffic to then cross the sharrow death zone of lower Ashland, before dealing with the ice cream trucks that always block the plaza at Atlantic.
This is how we end up with nonsensical infrastructure that forces unnecessary conflicts. It's why experienced bikers ride in the street. #biketooter#streetsblognyc