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It’s a funny thing — Lower Manhattan pols want a protected bike lane to link the very popular bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge to the Hudson River Greenway. But for some reason, they don’t want it on Chambers Street, which data show is the route that cyclists are already using, albeit unsafely.
We also have an opinion piece by Downtown flaneur Joseph Tedeschi trying to bring some sanity to Canal Street.
Meanwhile, Comptroller Mark Levine wants the city to bring some sanity to the outdoor dining permitting process.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.