The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Kevin Duggan’s lead story today is the definition of blockbuster: The NYPD has gone back to an old — and much maligned — strategy of giving cyclists criminal summonses instead of regular traffic tickets. We’re just getting a grasp on what this could mean for our court system and working cyclists, let alone riders already being caught in the new dragnet.
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.