Two trucks rented and operated by LIRR with folded license plates to avoid speeding, red light and bus lane tickets, in front of Atlantic Terminal. An NYPD 78th Precinct vehicle was parked behind them. C'mon LIRR MTA when will you knock it off?

Academy Bus Lines has racked up over $566,000 in idling violations. And now the company is threatening to stop operating in New York City if it isn't given an exemption from the anti-pollution law for its fleet of 723 buses. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/23/cou…

This in from Dept of Leopards-Not-Changing-Their-Spots: 3 decades ago, Academy racked up the highest rate of NYC pedestrians & cyclists killed per bus miles driven, per this screenshot from Right of Way's groundbreaking "Killed by Auto" report. komanoff.net/cars_I/KBA_ent…

This Exemption will eviscerate the idling law in New York city take a minute to testify in writing; chekpeds.com/our-bad-air-qu…

Starting to put up some Christmas decorations

A big thanks and congratulations to CBT for operating electric buses in NYC, saving New Yorkers' lives! This company didn't need corporate giveaways from NYC Water--they just did the right thing.

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This should be PTA’s Norbit

Starring: (alphabetically except for one person)

👏 👏 The Footprint: thefootprint.substack.com/p/nycs-air-qua…

Excited to launch our 2026-2029 Session City Council Climate Scorecard based on Council members’ support for the best (and the worst) environmental legislation! Let us know if we left bills out! And how’s your CM doing? legislation.support/climate-packag…

The new Jodorowsky book from Taschen is a beauty.

Hi Mike Flynn NYC DOT Ydanis & co always ignored my reports of folded or obscured license plates on DOT vehicles. Will you, too?

No company should be given a free pass to increase asthma rates.

The cons at Con Edison are back at it. Here's a plate (95420NA) bent over so far back that I couldn't even fix it! nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/03/01/con… Streetsblog New York City

Funny enough, more than half of the 10 million bucks Amazon owes for their illegal idling is just from late fees. 🙄🙄🙄

Heya Mark D. Levine beyond the $10 million that Amazon owes the city, there's another $32 million from the other 99 companies in the Idling Deadbeat top 100: idling.nyc/respondent_lis…

If it is official NYPD policy to not enforce the law - then New Yorkers should take matters into our own hands. Pass my legislation to empower civilian enforcement of illegal parking and abolish parking placards.