The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The big news today is that Mayor Mamdani’s Department of Transportation will finally finish the Ashland Place protected bike lane — stalled for many years because of a backroom deal made by his predecessor — by laying down the protection and paint on the southernmost block.
You can read Kevin Duggan’s exclusive below.
Also in today’s newsletter, Double-Duty Duggan dives deep into Citi Bike’s finances and wonders, as we all so, can Lyft’s price hikes be reined in?
And don’t miss David Meyer’s latest look at the city’s flawed anti-idling program. Can anyone hold polluters accountable? Billy Never Idles, right? Come on.
And there’ll be more news later in the day, as Mayor Mamdani is making a “transportation accouncement” in The Bronx this morning. We’ll be there.
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.