Different first name, same sort of Adams.
Council Speaker Adrienne Adams enters the mayoral race with an indifferent record on transportation — but also some occasional meddling to maintain car dominance in a city where most people don’t drive.
Speaker Adams has accomplished far less than her recent predecessors, Melissa Mark-Viverito and Corey Johnson, on expanding bus and bike lanes and making city streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Mark-Viverito and Johnson passed bill after bill to advance the city’s Vision Zero goals, hold reckless drivers accountable, improve bus service and expand biking and walking in the city. Speaker Adams, in contrast, has mostly stood by as Mayor Adams (no familial relation) failed to meet the bus lane and bike lane mileage required by the Council’s Streets Master Plan law while creating a seasonal outdoor dining regime that dramatically curtailed the popular, all-year pandemic-era program…