The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today, we’re breaking big news, Politico-style: Award-winning reporter Sophia Lebowitz reveals that Amazon’s behind-the-scenes negotiations against the Council’s Delivery Protection Act includes a threat to end its bike-delivery program — the very sustainable approach that has taken so many trucks off the roads.
It’s a story you’ll only read on Streetsblog — at least today before everyone else matches it.
Also, don’t miss Kevin Duggan’s piece on the NYPD’s latest effort to keep the public in the dark, this time on placards.
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.