Tuesday Headlines: We Have Returned Edition

Streetsblog is back from some much-needed R&R, strategizing, team building in New England. We also cooked up some plots and schemes, but you’ll never be able to prove it was us. While we were off galivanting, New York, of course, was very much still in motion.

Here is where things stand:

• An MTA construction flagger was struck and killed by a D train near Yankee Stadium Thursday night, and union officials say both the train crew and track workers appear to have followed protocol, pointing to a fatal communications breakdown. (The New York Times)
• An inspector general’s audit found NYC Transit skipped nearly one in five required substation maintenance checks in 2024, including at the Brooklyn facility that later exploded, while also ignoring fire alarms and other safety requirements. (News12 Long Island)
• A federal judge struck down New York’s Climate Superfund law, and New Jersey Republicans are already arguing the ruling should sink their state’s similar proposal. (Gothamist)
• Police are searching for the driver who fled after fatally striking 43-year-old Zachary Imperi on Buffalo’s Ontario Street Thursday night. (WKBW)
• A pickup truck crashed into the Rainbow Bridge duty-free shop after customs officers directed the driver to change lanes, injuring an employee and shutting down traffic into Canada for hours. (BTPM)
• Waymo brought a driverless SUV to the State Fair to pitch autonomous vehicles to lawmakers and fairgoers even as labor unions and elected officials continue fighting the company’s push into New York. (Central Current)
• State Police say a cyclist in Auburn was struck by three vehicles in succession and killed. (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
• Protesters in Hudson joined a growing Hudson Valley backlash against Flock Safety’s license-plate-reader cameras and their data-sharing with federal agencies. (The Times Union)
• Troy lawmakers voted unanimously to limit Mayor Carmella Mantello’s emergency powers after she used an emergency declaration to renew the city’s Flock camera contract without council approval. (WAMC)
• Clarkstown will survey and rate every road in town using a pavement-management system intended to prioritize repairs based on condition rather than politics. (Mid-Hudson News)
• The Appalachian Trail is adding a parcel in Philipstown via the National Parks Service. (Highlands Current)
• Putnam County is looking to drop its lawsuit against the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail. (Highlands Current)
• Roughly 2,000 New York City students—most of them with disabilities—could begin the school year without yellow bus service because the city still lacks enough bus contractors. (Gothamist)
• City & State profiles TWU International President John Samuelsen’s deliberately confrontational style, from sparring with Gov. Hochul over subway crew staffing to fighting City Hall over horse carriages. (City & State)