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After decades of promises and false starts, ground has finally broken on the transformative Metro North Penn Station access in The Bronx today. The ceremonial groundbreaking event was held at the site of the future Parkchester/Van Nest Metro North stop—one of four to be constructed in the East Bronx—that will bring direct rail service to Manhattan's Penn Station as well as points north to Westchester and Connecticut in the estimated $3.18 billion project.

You better think twice before your impatience pushes you to drive down a bus lane or, worse yet, double park on one and creating a traffic jam. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) announced last week that it has activated its automated bus lane enforcement cameras for the first time in The Bronx. They are now on the Bx12 and the Bx41 routes and will activate it in the coming days along the Bx19.

Launched in 2021 and expanded this past summer, the East Bronx Shared E-Scooter Pilot Program is being touted as a great success by the New York City Department of Transportation in a report issued this past Monday by the agency and will become permanent and hopefully expand across the city.

(Denver, Colo.) A powerful investment soon will get the Montbello neighborhood moving. Adds an electric community bus to shuttle residents to health appointments and other services.

A pedestrian walks by graffiti encouraging the wearing of masks on April 20, 2020 in San Francisco, California.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Welcome back to another daily roundup of San Francisco stories for Feb. 16.

Last week Tuesday, December 28, the Soundview Ferry line was officially extended to Throggs Neck adding a much-needed transportation alternative to a transit-starved area at Ferry Point Park.