Today’s Headlines

You don't need us to tell you to wear the thermals today. Wednesday will start out as a normal cold day (well, a normal cold day for those of us over 40), but then transmogrify into a frigid Chicago-esque hellscape by nightfall. Thursday will be so cold that you won't mind being stuffed like a sardine onto the L train — the insides of sardine cans, we're told, are quite temperate.

Two big events will bookend today. First, at noon, Council Members Antonio Reynoso, Justin Brannan, Rafael Espinal, Carlos Menchaca and others will rally with private sanitation workers at City Hall to protest horrible working conditions in the industry.

Well, our editor is back from New Orleans and he won't shut up about what a great time he had — except for one thing: The Big Easy doesn't live up to its name for cyclists. The Crescent City could be a paradise — it's almost entirely flat and the weather cooperates almost the entire year — but there's a dearth of protected bike lanes, gas is $1.89 a gallon, and drivers speed around like they own the place (which, alas, they do).

Our editor flew to New Orleans last night and could not believe that there is no public transportation option after 9:20 p.m. from Louis Armstrong Airport to his scheduled appointment with a Sazerac and Brice Miller at the Spotted Cat on Frenchmen Street.

What a crazy day yesterday was: A City Council Member blasted his colleagues' hopes of legalizing e-scooters right in front of them at a press conference. Then Mayor de Blasio tossed cold water on the whole legalization thing anyway. And then we were leaked a copy of a preliminary — or "outdated," if you believe the MTA — set of painful service adjustments that might have to be made to accommodate Gov. Cuomo's supposedly painless L-train repair. (The Post later followed our mega-scoop above).

It's a big day for news: The Streetsblog team will be double-teaming today's City Council Transportation Committee hearing on e-bikes and e-scooters and pre-hearing rallies in favor of the devices that Mayor de Blasio, citing no statistical evidence, says are unsafe.

A group of Families for Safe Streets members will be picketing outside the ABC studios on W. 66th Street where "The View" is broadcast today at 8 a.m. The members — all of whom have lost loved ones to road violence — were motivated after co-host Whoopi Goldberg berated Mayor de Blasio on the show last week with inaccurate comments about bike lanes and road safety.

He had a dream. And it included equitable transit.

Whoopi Goldberg landed on Thursday's wood of the Post for her outrageous anti-street-safety comments,, so naturally she doubled-down, kicking off "The View" with more anti-bike comments that the Post lapped up. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio clearly didn't want to turn this into a two-day story, and declined to answer substantive questions from the press corps at his Thursday availability — even heaping praise on Goldberg as a "great New Yorker" who was "raising valid concerns" about the bike lanes that de Blasio says he believes in. "Great New Yorker"? Goldberg drives in from her West Orange, N.J. mansion for work every day then believes that arduous journey by luxury SUV gives her the right to tell the mayor how he should manage the streets for the rest of us who have to live here and pay the taxes.