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We’ve taken to calling high-profile legislative hearings “super bowls” because of the amount of media attention they draw, and today is a big one: Super Bowl Wednesday, when the City Council under Speaker Julie Menin and Majority Leader and Transportation Committee Chair Shaun Abreu will consider a laundry list of bills to regulate e-bike riding in the city.
Testifying for the Mamdani administration will be Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Sam Levine. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch will be absent, however — continuing her pattern of deferring crucial “Vision Zero” responsibilities and public appearances to subordinates.
Get the full preview in Wednesday’s Headlines below, along with some good news about bus speeds — and bad news about the online retail boom’s impact on city streets.
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.