The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Boy did Council Member Gale Brewer let DOT know that she wants a bike lane through Central Park. Sophia Lebowitz attended the West Side fixture’s town hall meeting and brought home the bacon to Streetsblog readers.
Meanwhile, Max White covers a burgeoning grassroots effort to get Mayor Mamdani to slow down cars across the city.
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.