{"id":196398,"date":"2026-04-14T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:21:10","slug":"tuesdays-headlines-old-man-yells-at-hochul-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196398\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday’s Headlines: Old Man Yells At Hochul Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have noticed that we\u2019ve been covering Gov. Hochul\u2019s auto insurance scheme pretty closely (click here to review our insights<\/a>). <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve covered how Uber is fueling this battle. We\u2019ve covered how victims of crashes will likely suffer. We\u2019ve offered better ideas if the governor really wants to cut down on fraud and save money.<\/p>\n

And today, we\u2019re even letting MTA CEO Janno Lieber offer his side of the story and critique<\/a> our coverage (we\u2019re big that way).<\/p>\n

But through it all, we\u2019ve never put in one handy place why we think car insurance premiums aren\u2019t too high, but too low.<\/p>\n

So join me for the latest episode of my new series \u201cOld Man Vertical,\u201d as I highlight 11 examples of driver behavior that contribute to the problem: drivers committing insurance fraud, drivers piloting massive SUVs, drivers illegally parking, drivers racking up speeding and red-light tickets, and, of course drivers who deface or cover their plates.<\/p>\n

All on one bike ride to work. Maybe the governor should join me if she really wants to know what conditions are like on the ground:<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

Speaking of Hochul\u2019s insurance plan, Newsday<\/a> is the latest outlet to focus on Uber\u2019s pernicious role. But Hochul claims opponents are lying about her plan. (NY Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Linden Boulevard is the new Boulevard of Death. (WCBS2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

After the Times\u2019s wrongly headlined big scoop<\/a>, everyone got in on the coverage of Mayor Mamdani\u2019s plans for Grand Army Plaza. We pointed out<\/a> that the plan is ultimately old. The Daily News<\/a> and Gothamist<\/a> overstated it to make it sound more radical than it is, while amNY<\/a> played it straight.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s completely staged meet-and-greet with a DoorDash driver was just sad, especially since she likely wasn\u2019t paid for the time she was forced to be his window dressing. (The Independent<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Call it the Taylor Swift effect. (NY Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Joint Transit Association<\/a> is back with a new video, this time on the QueensLink v. QueensWay battle.<\/p>\n

Our friend Jeffrey LeFran\u00e7ois of the Meatpacking BID was interviewed about the World Cup permit ban<\/a>. (NY1<\/a>)<\/p>\n

U.S. Department of Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy got caught not bothering to really think<\/a> about the New York Post\u2019s<\/a> latest fear-mongering about subway crime. Yes, a cop is quoted in the story as saying that congestion pricing is putting more people in the subway, but not that tolling drivers has suddenly led to an increase in crime. And the Post also wants you to believe that congestion pricing is causing there to be more homeless people in the subway (um, how many of the undomiciled people in the subway were commuting into the city by car and decided to stop driving and live in the subway to avoid a $9 toll?).<\/p>\n

\"\"My god, this is the lede of a story in a newspaper with \u201cNew York\u201d in the name.<\/p>\n

With just a glancing reference to public transit, the \u201cNew York\u201d Times once again<\/a> put the needs of car users ahead of the Public Good: Why is the Paper of Record not a stronger advocate for massive investment in public transit, which is a tool for equity? Instead, the paper consistently carries Big Car\u2019s water by simply advocating for tweaks on a failed status quo \u2014\u00a0in this case, reducing the costs of cars. It is true that cars are a debt sentence for many Americans, but the solution is for powerful institutions, like the Times, to push public officials to fix the underlying problem: car dependency!<\/p>\n

The \u201cWar on Cars\u201d podcast book, \u201cLife After Cars,\u201d is so good that even Jalopnik<\/a> reviewed it. Which reminds me: I\u2019ll moderate a panel discussion on the book with co-writers Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on Wednesday, May 6 at the Midtown Manhattan library (now the Stavros Niarchos branch). Get the info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may have noticed that we\u2019ve been covering Gov. Hochul\u2019s auto insurance scheme pretty closely (click here to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-196398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}