You’re going to have a great weekend, but before you start partying, join Streetsblog readers in hell: having to listen to hours of lies and invective hurled by willfully unaware people complaining about time-tested street safety redesigns. David Meyer compiled the best of the worst — and debunked it all.
We also have some good news, in the form of a budget deal that will help the MTA save $175 million on the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway (and other good news: MTA Board member David Mack, the Lyin’ King of the Suburbs, is no longer on the board).
Keep scrolling for more good stuff, including our Friday video package exploring the ongoing global backlash.
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.