The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Every outlet is going to be covering the one-year anniversary of congestion pricing today (who says the papers don’t print “good news” stories anymore?!), but Streetsblog gives you three ways to celebrate:
David Meyer looks at all the positive things that have happened in town as a result of the toll.
Dave Colon picks through the lingering court paperwork challenging the tolls (don’t worry; opposition is in its death throes).
And today’s headlines leads with other outlets’ birthday parties.
Plus don’t miss our big news from the weekend: Mayor Mamdani will make McGuinness safe! And don’t miss Nolan Hicks’s report on ways to help homeless people in the subway.
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.
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.
Cops got this crash wrong — and we have the video.
Two new stories about the city’s slow installation of speed humps. Plus other news.
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.
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.
