The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The big news as we return from the long weekend is pedestrianization of Lower Manhattan. You want it. Small businesses want it. Tourist attractions want it. And even the local politicians want it. But will Big Business support it? Kevin Duggan looks long and hard.
We also have a review of … Review Avenue, as Summer Specialist Emily Smith puts her eyes on the street.
Plus today’s headlines and a couple of things from last week that you might have missed.
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.