The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’re ending the week with some great news: The Mamdani administration will tweak the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge bike and footpath to make it easier for both users. It’s not a huge project, but it reveals that the mayor understands how tiny little design flaws — like that missing one-block protected bike lane on Ashland Place, among so many others — must be fixed.
He also understands that just because cyclists congregate somewhere — in this case, at a venerable mosque in the East Village — it’s not a police matter, as Sophia Lebowitz reports lower down in this newsletter.
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.
The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
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.
“I’m not willing to keep our teams active in the field,” Lieber said on Thursday morning.
Streetsblog interviewed the president and public relations director of the Century Road Club Association.
The devices — called Intelligent Speed Assistance — prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit
New Yorkers can vote to stop those endless anti-bike lane lawsuits.
