Monday Headlines: DOT, DOT, DOT Edition
Gov. Hochul’s administration has a safety plan for Manhattan’s West Side Highway. The only problem? New Yorkers are going to have to wait a while longer to see it.
State DOT now says its study of safety and mobility improvements along Route 9A won’t produce recommendations until the end of March 2027 — a full year later than the agency’s original 18-month timeline. And that’s despite a corridor where crashes continue to injure people trying to walk and bike to the Hudson River waterfront.
Since the study began in September 2024, there have been 495 reported crashes within its boundaries, resulting in 236 injuries and one death. Thirty-seven pedestrians and 37 cyclists were among those injured.
State DOT says it needs more time to process feedback from three public meetings held in spring 2025. But advocates say the delay is hard to square with the urgency of making one of Manhattan’s most important — and dangerous — waterfront corridors safer.
Read more here.
Elsewhere in The Empire State:
- There will be free Regional Transit Service shuttle runs around Letchworth State Park Oct. 10-11 and 17-18, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (WXXI)
- Newark holds a public meeting tonight on its North Main Street (Route 88) reconstruction, which would add sidewalks, signals and flashing beacons at a school crosswalk. (Finger Lakes Times)
- The state Attorney General releases footage of a July crash in Cayuta that killed a passenger after a state parole officer’s vehicle collided with hers. (Finger Lakes Daily News)
- 23rd Congressional District Democratic candidate Aaron Gies is open to reviewing Title IX as the Cornell case draws scrutiny (WSKG)
- A Colonie police cruiser collided with an elderly motorist’s car. (Times Union)
- The Troy Common Council votes 6-0 to make police delete Flock camera data after 72 hours and limit sharing. (WAMC)
- The Newburgh-Beacon Ferry pilot set sail this past weekend. (Highlands Current)
- A judge ruled Rep. Nydia Velázquez, not Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, leads the Brooklyn Democrats, possibly clearing the way for reformer Julio Peña III. (City & State)
- New York City Department of Transportation officials say traffic deaths are at historic lows, with pedestrian deaths down 15 percent, but e-bike and scooter rider deaths are up nearly 40 percent. (NY1)
- Bruce Blakeman has offered few policy details in his run for governor. (Politico New York)
- Suffolk County has more than doubled its Flock cameras in the past year. (NY Post)
- Two towing companies must refund $66,500 to drivers they overcharged. (Gothamist)
- A tractor pulling a hayride flipped near the Pennsylvania border. (The New York Times)
- Seaford man arrested with 70 envelopes of heroin after police stop him on an e-bike. (News 12 Long Island)
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