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Gov. Hochul has fully endorsed a state legislative effort to allow New York City to set — and reduce — its own speed limits, announcing in her State of the State address on Tuesday that she will introduce her own version of the existing "Sammy's Law" bill that the legislature has failed to pass previously.

This morning, Transportation Alternatives put out a lengthy position paper outlining the group's ambitious agenda to reclaim streets from cars, increase access to open space, build more affordable housing, improve transit and get more people biking on life-saving infrastructure. And, yes, there was other news.

The biggest story of the holiday weekend dropped on Friday when Gothamist became the latest outlet to notice that a car belonging to Council Transportation Committee Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers continues to be caught by city speed cameras at a rate that's well past shrugging off.

Mo' money, mo' service.

Stop the steal! New York State has been underfunding the MTA by hundreds of millions of dollars for decades, quietly reclassifying dedicated county taxes as its own contribution to the transit agency's operating budget.

"There is no initiative that would do more to improve the public health of the Bronx [and] improve the air quality and life expectancy than the transformation of the Cross Bronx Expressway," Rep. Ritchie Torres said on Monday.

Stop the chop? The governor says, "No."

Simple messaging changes can help transportation leaders win over residents who are skeptical of automated enforcement, a new study finds — and there's even more they can do to make those programs equitable, effective, and deserving of public support.

New York passed its Complete Streets law in 2011 after my 14-year-old daughter Brittany was hit and killed on Sunrise Highway. But the governor has not yet signed a bill that would make roads safer.