The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’ll obviously have more full-team coverage today on the massive snowfall, but only so much that you don’t get bored. Don’t miss our other coverage today, including a point-counterpoint on the City Council’s Delivery Protection Act that’s worthy of Shana Alexander and James Kirkpatrick (OK, that’s an old reference even for our Old Man Editor).
And don’t miss Max White’s dive into another way Gov. Hochul could lower car insurance rates without screwing everything up: Just look north, governor!
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
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.