The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The big news yesterday was Mayor Mamdani’s appearance at the Transportation Alternatives’ annual gala on the Upper West Side, a rare showing by a sitting executive. But it couldn’t have been more fitting, given his support for a safety redesign of W. 72nd Street that a handful of NIMBYs protested about outside.
In other news, the FDNY says it really does support bike lanes. And our 20th anniversary street fair has been canceled because our editor dislocated his shoulder (more below).
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.