The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Lots of positive things are happening, including more space for pedestrians on the Queensboro Bridge (aww, sorry, Sean Duffy!) and a busway for 34th Street.
In addition, don’t miss the latest installment of our “Car Harms” series, more news from Albany and a valuable history lesson for the NYPD’s bike-crackdown Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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.