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Nearly every single bridge in New York needs repairs — and many of them are 'structurally deficient': report
ꦑ That's a lot of bridges over troubl🉐ed waters.
Artist behind mysterious 'Trump Crossing' signs in NYC revealed
A conservative artist from St෴aten Island was photographed in Manhattan hanging up one of the mysterious Donald Trump street signs that went viral last week.
Mysterious 'traffic' signs with Donald Trump's face pop up along NYC streets
Now enꦐtering ꦆTrump country!
Buttigieg's order grounding private drone flights in Hurricane Helene flood rescue zones crashes and burns: 'You're hiding something'
"Private citizen drones and helicopters have been savin𝔍g lives for days, and still are. You should be ashamed," one person seethed.
Planned new bike lane in industrial NYC neighborhood has business owners fuming: 'Just not safe'
Businesses in one of the last-standing industrial corners of Long Island City say they can only take so much gen꧅trification — and that a planned new bi♛ke lane has put...
Cards4Kids: NYC students still slinging OMNY passes for up to $500: 'I have these for no reason'
Kids continued pawning off their special student OMNY cards this week despite MTA and city DOE claims that they were cracking down on the ille💛gal sales.
✨ Oregon reveals hundreds of non-citizens were mis𝕴takenly registered to vote since 2021
More than 300 non-citizens in Oregon eligible to apply for driver's licenses have also been mistakenly registered to vote, officials admitted this w🎃eek in what they chalked up to be...
Nearly three-quarters of infrastruct𝔉ure buc🌳ks — about $7.8B — go to blue states, watchdog finds
The Center for Transportation Policy found $7.8 billion from fi🐼ve grant programs went to Democratic-led states, while GOP-led states got ju🔥st $3 billion.
Complaints by US air travelers soared last year --♏ with this being the most co🎃mmon gripe: data
Complaints by US air travelers soared 12% last year, federal Department of Transportation data shღows. 💫
🦹 Beloved NYC 9/11 mural desecrated by pigeon poop despite roughly $400K of taxpayer money spent on failed deterrents
Hundreds of well-fed pigeons roost on the bꦡeams below the Belt Parkway’s 84th Street overpass in Howard Beach -- bombarding the mural with so much poop that volunteers are forced...
'Ghost' license plates cost NYC $200M a year — fueled by 'James Bond-level' gadgets, new analysis finds
Scofflaw drivers with “ghost” license plate💃s are costing New York City a whopping $200 million a year — fueled by a cottage industry peddling "James Bond-level'' gadgets, a new analysis...
New website lets NYers𓄧 use traffic cams to turn streets into instant photo booths 🔯
New Yorkers can now use DOT traffic cameras to create their own personal photo bo🦩oths by taking unique snapshots of themselves off the surveillance footage, with Big Apple vistas in...
Biden admin pitcheꦓs major overhaul to airline fees
𝐆 The U.S. Department of Transportation said it is proposing barring U.S. and foreign airlines from charging fees to s𒅌eat families with young children together on a flight during booking.
𒆙 Delta meltdown probed by feds as airline struggles to recover days after global outage
While other carriers have been able to resume normal operations, Delta has continued to cancel hundr🥂eds of flights daily.
Air travel is꧃ getting worse as complaints rise to nearly 97,000
More than two-thirds of al𝓰l complaints last year dealtꦅ with US airlines, but a quarter covered foreign airlines.
NYC Council campa🦂igning to finish adding 151 new public bathrooms
Margaret For꧋gione, first deputy commissioner at DOT, testified her deparment doesn’t have money for the bathrooms, citing the “overall c𓂃apital needs of the city”.
Staten Island Ferry that killed 11 in 2003 crash up for auc✨tion — as city makes tone-deaf joke bid to Pete Davidson, Colin Jost
A storied Staten Island ꧒Ferry that infamously crashed in 2003, killing nearly a dozen people went up for auction this wee𒁏k — in case comedians Pete Davidson and Colin Jost...
Major airlines sue Biden administration over 'junk fees' crackdown
Airlines for America, along with American Airlines, Delta Air Liꦰnes, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines, filed suit.
Southwest Airlines launches compensati𓆉on program for flight delays after 2022 meltdown
The airline agreed to the compensation program after the holiday meltdown that resulted in 16,900 flight cancellations and stranded 2 million passengers. The settlement included a $35 m♏illion cash fine.
Flyers may soon get a break over canceled flights — including instant refunds — ⭕thanks to n⛄ew DOT rules
♍ The Biden administration on Wednesday slapped airlines with new rules that trigger instant refunds when flights are canceled and clamp down on "surprise junk fees." Under the new Department of...