Remember all those stories we did last year about Intel testing autonomous cars on the mean streets of New York? Well, apparently, the company is done.And like Streetsblog, other outlets covered the killing of a pedestrian in Midtown by a truck driver.Like Streetsblog, other outlets covered Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s report on MTA finances.( NYDN NY Post, with video amNY with a terrible headline, Gothamist, and, last but not least, the NY Times, though that paper’s headline suggested that cars act by themselves: Just one day after we pointed out the problem with the NYPD buying so many SUVs, a police officer driving just such an oversized assault car swerved to avoid another driver and jumped a curb, injuring 10 in The Bronx.We’re betting that if you renew your subscription to Streetsblog, voters will renew their subscription in you next year. So kudos to the Congresswoman from Queens. And when she was asked about banning cars in some places, she said, “Pedestrianizing some of these areas also contributes to public safety,” which was a clear reference to our voluminous coverage of how car-free streets are simply safer.When she was asked about the public and the NYPD’s SUV-buying binge, she said, “Even if you take every car and you electrify it, that doesn’t solve a lot of our core problems that we have here.” Clearly, AOC has read so much of our coverage of the danger of thinking that merely converting gas cars to EV cars is going to solve all the other 49 or so problems of car dependency in our society.But ultimately what we’ve seen in the data, is that a lot of those small businesses have actually seen their sales increase.” Obviously, that was cribbed from Jesse Coburn’s investigation on that very bike lane last week. When she was asked about bike lanes, she said, “I remember in Sunnyside when there was this really strong debate about the bike lane, there was a very real concern for small businesses that they would that they might lose traffic if they lost parking spaces in front.Appearing at a Zoom meeting of Queens Community Board 2 last night, AOC referred repeatedly to our recent stories, such as: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has spent her first three years in Congress declining interview requests from us about how she reconciles Big EV and the Green New Deal, apparently reads Streetsblog pretty darn closely. In the meantime, there was some news yesterday: Rep. We’ll be parked in front of a TV at 8:07 p.m. There are so many worries: How is Jake’s arm? Will Marte’s finger ever heal? Can Manny Machado be stopped? What is an oblique anyway? We can sit here and pretend that you want to read another 300-word editorial foisted on us by our old man editor, but the fact is, you’re thinking one thing: this weekend’s Mets playoff series.
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