A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless.
"You wouldn't know it from outside appearances," the tipster says, "but the 2030 Project is really tearing things up inside City Hall right now. It's a big deal and it's making a lot of people inside the bureaucracy very uncomfortable."
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Some of the most basic technical resources cities use to build bike lanes and sidewalks were housed on a single government website, which was scrubbed shortly after Trump's inauguration. Now, advocates are scrambling to replace them.
Alina Habba, the counselor to the president, is married to Gregg Reuben, who owns 28 parking garages across the city. Oligarchy much?
Many cut. Very National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Much conflict of interest. So scare. Wow.
"This administration has been really clear that they don't want to fund projects that cut carbon emissions. What they want to do is to take out the green stuff."
Every February, Automakers spend millions to get Americans into expensive cars they can't afford. What if we could do the same to get them onto a bike seat?
