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Today, we break another great story about how our delivery workers are exploited. Sophia Lebowitz was leaked documents that show, clearly, how Grubhub got around city minimum pay laws by outsourcing some deliveries another company that, temporarily, was not subject to the law.
In addition, Lebowitz spent a cold night out with a delivery worker for Relay, the company in question.
In a bit of levity, we return to our epic March (Parking) Madness contest, this time focusing on Staten Island for the Final Four. And best of all, you get to vote.
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.
The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York 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.
“I’m not willing to keep our teams active in the field,” Lieber said on Thursday morning.
Streetsblog interviewed the president and public relations director of the Century Road Club Association.
The devices — called Intelligent Speed Assistance — prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit
New Yorkers can vote to stop those endless anti-bike lane lawsuits.
