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What if they held a bus oversight hearing and all we heard was complaints from drivers? Welcome to the New York City Council, where no one holds city and state officials accountable for slow bus speeds, but everyone wants to complain about getting tickets for parking in bus lanes.
Also in today’s newsletter, Double Duty Duggan covered a late meeting at which Queens community board members begged the Parks Department to let them drive inside Forest Park, even though a roadway is much safer without them.
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.