Mayor Eric Adams is committing $904 million in the next five years to build out hundreds of miles of bus and bike lanes.
The investment in the city’s Streets Master Plan is $2.2 billion short of the City Council’s $3.1 billion budget ask for the initiative. Still, the funding was lauded by elected officials and transit advocates as a crucial step toward addressing street safety, particularly as the city experienced its deadliest spike in traffic deaths during the first three months of this year. Traffic crashes killed 59 people in the city during that time, a 44% increase over that period last year. Those
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