The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
They paved a parking lot to put up a little bit of public space paradise … but now local electeds in Inwood want the city to undo a seating area on Dyckman Street to restore about a dozen parking space.
And therein lies a great story by Kevin Duggan, one featuring all the players, shifting loyalties, racial hot buttons, anti-bike culture warfare and one Congressman who was voted out of office, but is still hanging around.
Plus we also have a Friday video, a Streetsblog Empire State story about the DSA finally getting around to advocating for bus riders and today’s headlines.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
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.