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We’ve heard a lot of talk lately about Lyft’s Citi Bike profits and rising fees, but reining in the cost to use bike-share may be a tall order for Mayor Mamdani and the Department of Transportation.
In interviews with Streetsblog in recent weeks, bike-share insiders all agreed that the mayor has a generational opportunity to refashion the city’s Bloomberg-era program into a more affordable and expansive one, but Hizzoner needs to figure out how to get the best deal for New Yorkers. The problem is that Lyft holds all of the most important cards.
Get the full story below – along with the latest on the community board-level push to bring 20 mph speed limits to more New York City neighborhoods.
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.