The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our lead story today: Sophia Lebowitz talks to the mayor of Bogota, Colombia, who had no idea that haters of Mayor Mamdani mocked the Andes city — because anyone who knows transit, knows Bogota!
In other news, the push continues for a safer Third Avenue in Brooklyn (take that, Randy Peers) and for the passage of Gov. Hochul’s proposal to slow down super speeders (times two).
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.