Eric Adams

Mayor Adams made another trip up to Albany on Tuesday, but barely, if at all, pushed legislators to support a bill that would renew and expand speed cameras — a self-proclaimed priority of his own administration.

The big news this week will be Mayor Adams's trip to Albany on Tuesday — plus Tom Brady on a bike! 

The big story in the local press on Thursday was — would you believe it? — our story from Wednesday on speed cameras. Plus all the other news from yesterday, including bad news out of Pimlico.

"There will be a humanitarian crisis until we pay to solve it," said one activist.

"When is the last time you saw an officer walk through the train [and ask], 'How are you?' 'How was your day?'" the mayor said.

Let's highlight the news stories and developments that prove that maybe, just maybe, 2022 will be a transformative year.

Gov. Cuomo is clearly stalling congestion pricing, according to Charles Komanoff, one of the few true experts on the central business district tolling plan. Here's how it can be saved.

Or maybe the roadway will be turned into an at-grade boulevard.

On Thursday, DOT announced plans to paint a bike lane on Classon Avenue, the northbound one-way street where a left-turning driver killed Lauren Davis as she rode her bike to work last April. As bicycle infrastructure goes, it's the bare minimum -- some stripes and stencils to designate space for biking, with no changes to moving lanes or parking. But that hasn't stopped a group of local officials from coming out against it.