The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
As many readers know, Streetsblog reporters Austin C. Jefferson and Kevin Duggan have been laser-focused on covering Gov. Hochul’s effort to reduce supposedly high car insurance costs by making it harder for some crash victims to get proper compensation for their life-changing injuries.
Well, after three months, it appears that the state legislature has blinked and gone along with most of Hochul’s Uber-backed effort — though it’s not even clear if auto insurance premiums will even drop.
Jefferson has the Day 1 pass — but believe us, more coverage is coming.
Also in today’s newsletter, a move to expand Fair Fares, a move to expand green space on Park Avenue, and a move to un-expand Nassau County’s e-bike ban.
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.