The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
There’s so much news in today’s newsletter, but the lead stories are out of Albany, where Austin C. Jefferson did a deep dive on Gov. Hochul’s victory over the legislature on her attempt to make driving cheaper.
And Editor Gersh Kuntzman tossed in an analysis of the “Stop Super Speeders” proposal — and how it could easily fail if the details aren’t nailed down.
We also have coverage of the Dean and Bergen bike boulevards and, of course, today’s headlines.
Check back for a breaking story at 8 am, too, but shhhh! we can’t tell you about it yet.
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.