Thursday’s Headlines: A Blue Highway for Produce Edition
Can New York’s ample waterways take pressure off its street grid? A new tech that allows bikes to transport perishable goods could provide an answer.
On Wednesday, the non-profit Sharing Excess tested out transporting food from the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx to a food pantry in Manhattan via ferry and cargo bikes with battery-powered refrigeration. The goods traveled via ferry to E. 34th Street, where workers off-loaded them onto to Fulpra Quatro pedal-assisted quad e-bikes.
Of course, a demonstration is just a demonstration, and the new tech would need to be significantly scaled up to make a dent in the thousands of trucks that deliver perishable goods to restaurants and other food providers across the city.
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman recently test-rode on of the refrigerated bikes. Give it a watch:
In other news:
- MTA officials say their new fare gates are reducing fare evasion, and plan to expand the design to more stations. (NY Times, Gothamist, amNY)
- The New Yorker gave the Central Park horse carriage debate the long-read treatment.
- Cops charged the driver who killed Geoffrey Radbill on Riverside Drive last December, or as the Daily News called him, the “man behind the wheel of a car that struck and killed a prominent Manhattan philanthropist.”
- Police identified the cyclist killed in a collision with an unleashed dog as 71-year-old Douglas Adams, whom The Post described as an “Upper West Side biking enthusiast.”
- The Post also followed our coverage of the NYPD officer who struck a cyclist on Atlantic Avenue on Monday.
- Mamdani hasn’t been the police reform mayor some advocates hoped he’d be. (Politico)
- Cops arrested a Long Island man who allegedly struck and killed a homeless man then fled the scene. (NY Post)
- Advocates want to extend New Jersey’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. (PIX11)
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