The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s newsletter doesn’t have much breaking news from over the weekend, so scroll down to catch a story that the Department of Transportation put out on an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon: Summer Streets in not expanding this year.
Mayor Mamdani could have made our Summer Streets the envy of the world, of course, but chose not to. Maybe next year.
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.