The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The top story today is a laugher: Car drivers were so upset at twice-weekly alternate-side-of-the-street parking in Prospect Heights that they got the city to reduce it to just once a week. But then so few people moved their cars that roadways got dirtier. So they’re back to where they started.
Also in today’s blast, some important news about the future of Streetsblog, a Friday video about the BQE and today’s headlines.
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.