Dream on: the high-speed rail illusion By E.J. McMAHON | January 27, 2025. The idea of a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail line continues to captivate New York politicians. Instead, they should focus on improving the condition of the critical transportation arteries that most New Yorkers and their economy already depend on.

4 hours ago · With its nearly $1 billion Rochester Hub project on a construction pause as the company works on financing, Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.’s support for aspects of a presidential executive order that may end electric vehicle subsidies and federal climate regulation could be a harbinger of even more challenges for the project.

Beacon slates forum on traffic fatalities By ROCHESTER BEACON | January 16, 2025. The Feb. 12 event featuring Mayor Malik Evans and traffic policy experts will look at Rochester’s participation in Vision Zero, a national initiative that aims to eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

Jan 10, 2025 · A public hearing on Good Cause legislation took place on Friday. Rochester Mayor Malik Evans announced plans to sign Good Cause legislation after a public hearing Friday. It marks the culmination of efforts from housing advocates to secure eviction protections for the city’s tenants. Evans ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Rochester experienced a significant drop in crime last year—30 percent overall—that spanned every reported category, with the second half of 2024 continuing the midyear trend. “I am not satisfied with these numbers, but I am gratified,” Mayor Malik Evans said, repeating an oft-used phrase in his year-end public safety update.. “(They represent) the work we are doing to continue to ...

Sep 12, 2024 · As a result of these trends, rental units in the city of Rochester are likely to be in smaller properties. Nearly two-thirds of Rochester’s rentals are found in properties with one to four units, which can be inefficient to operate.

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Dec 28, 2023 · In responses to the question about the top challenge facing our community over the next 10 years, poverty and inequality, fixing problems in the Rochester City School District, and reducing crime and drug use were among those cited most frequently.

Vision Zero: Reducing Death and Injury on Rochester StreetsDate: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025Time: 9 a.m. – noonLocation: Gleason Auditorium, Central Library, 115 South Ave., Rochester From 2013 to 2023, 3,200 pedestrians and bicyclists were killed or injured by cars and trucks traveling Rochester’s streets, nearly 300 per …