The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is hope for Downtown Brooklyn. More than 20 years after the entire area was rezoned in hopes of bolstering one of the city’s most-important, non-Manhattan business center, the streets still need to be redesigned to prioritize pedestrians and bus riders, according to a report by Regional Plan Association commissioned by Council Member Lincoln Restler.
Also in today’s newsletter, a close-up look at a lingering problem at the Queensboro Bridge.
Plus today’s headlines.
Also, in case you missed it, there was a horrific crash on Friday night where a truck driver killed a teen on a Citi Bike.
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.