Residents Keep Fighting SBS Plan
BY MATT SHORTALL Local residents and members of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association met in Queens this past Saturday to protest plans for the expansion of Selective Bus Service (SBS) routes. The...
View ArticleSimotas To DOT: Fix Astoria Intersection
BY ARIEL HERNANDEZ Staff Writer After a three-year call to the New York City Department of Transportation to fix what many consider a dangerous stretch of road, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas...
View ArticleDOT Must Curb Construction Missteps
BY RORY LANCMAN Put yourself in Michael Hannibal’s shoes for a moment. Michael is a homeowner in Jamaica Estates. In 2014, Michael and his family spent thousands to reconstruct their driveway and...
View ArticleOceania Street Redesign Passes First Vote
BY JAMES FARRELL Staff Writer Community Board 11’s transportation committee voted during the board’s March 6 meeting in favor of a street redesign aimed at improving cyclist and pedestrian safety in...
View ArticleParkland To Be Returned At Maple Grove
BY JON CRONIN Editor Kew Gardens residents may finally get back a part of Maple Grove Park that they lost five years ago. When the Borough Hall parking garage came down, the Queens district attorney’s...
View ArticleLIC School Demands Stop Signs, Gets Slow Zones
BY ARIEL HERNANDEZ Staff Writer Earlier this year, community members from Hunters Point put together a petition to demand that the city’s Department of Transportation place a stop sign at 51st Avenue...
View ArticleSafety Improvements Set For MS 74Q
BY JAMES FARRELL Staff Writer Traffic safety improvements are coming to Oakland Gardens’ MS 74Q, local officials announced on Monday. The Department of Transportation (DOT) will install a two-way...
View ArticleJamaica Avenue Repaving Completed
BY TRONE DOWD Residents driving on the bumpy Jamaica Avenue will no longer need to avoid the crowded road as the city Department of Transportation has officially completed work repaving the 2.2 miles...
View ArticleLIC Bus Stop Relocated To Original Site
BY ARIEL HERNANDEZ A bus stop that was relocated due to construction underneath an elevated subway station in Long Island City has been relocated to its original site. Long Island City’s Q102 bus,...
View ArticleTraffic-Calming Measures For PS 120
BY NATHAN DUKE Editor-in-Chief Northeast Queens elected officials are calling on the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to install traffic-calming measures at an intersection near Flushing’s PS...
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