DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME: NOT YET FOREVER: U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn (D-8th Dist.), head of the House Democratic Caucus, spoke out Monday after the House of Representatives put the brakes on the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, starting in November, 2023.
STOP-AND-START CLOSURES ON VERRAZZANO BRIDGE: Starting this week, Brooklynites needing to travel the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge overnight should prepare for additional commute times and several intermittent 15-minute full closures of both the upper and lower levels in both directions to accommodate work, part of a $145 million Capital Program project to replace the bridge’s original early 1960s-era bearings and roadway deck.
BIG HOLIDAY WEEKEND — WITH NO R TRAIN: Bay Ridge will also be enduring work on its 95th Street subway station, with R train service suspended during seven consecutive weekends starting April 16 —which coincides with three major religious holidays.
On just the 1.5 miles of Pennsylvania Avenue between the Belt Parkway and New Lots Avenue, there were 2,768 reported crashes over the same eight-year period, or nearly one crash every day, injuring 38 cyclists, 173 pedestrians and 871 motorists, killing five pedestrians and two drivers.
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