The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Earlier this year, the city Department of Transportation put out a flawed report on daylighting — so flawed that its flaws were, in fact, cited as flaws in the flawed report! — so we were obviously excited to cover a new report, this time from the City Council, that corrects the record on this well-known safety feature.
In addition, we have an exclusive post from former DOT Commissioner “Hammerin'” Hank Gutman offering advice for Mayor-Elect Mamdani on what kind of person he should pick for the most-important job in town.
And newcomer J.K. Trotter offers his take on Elise Stefanik’s transit-snubbing run for governor.
Plus make sure to scroll down for lots more coverage you might have missed last week.
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.
