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If you concern yourself with one ballot initiative this fall, let it be Ballot Item #3, which will speed up street safety projects by 33 percent (boosters say) by requiring the Department of Transportation to confer only with heads of agencies on redesigns and thwart lawsuits over minor paperwork issues. Kevin Duggan talked to the head of the Commission on Government Efficiency, who explains it all.
Also today, we look at a dangerous roadway in Queens that DOT once said it would fix, but has gone silent on.
And don’t miss today’s headlines, which focus on the insane proposal to replace horse carriages with electric tourism machines. Ick!
We’re still doing our Central Park Week — today’s contribution is this video by Henry Beebe-Center and Sophia Lebowitz. Later in the day, we’ll have more coverage, so check back.
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.