The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is about a new design on the raised bike lanes on the Grand Concourse that the city says won’t be filled with parked cars (but, of course, when we checked them out, they, um, were).
Meanwhile, we posted a bunch of crucial stories yesterday, including a story from Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson about how the powerful Assembly Transportation Committee chairman might have lost his seat to a pro-bike upstart.
Also, the Mamdani administration again cracked down on an allegedly bad delivery app.
And our editor is in Ithaca today for some reason (click below to find out why).
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.