The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s newsletter celebrates the return to classes for almost one million public-school kids — but also warns about the dangers of the streets out there.
We offer two takes on the fear: One is from a father who dedicated his life to street safety after he started having kids. The other is from a teenage girl who wants to bike to school every day, but doesn’t know which day could end up being her last.
On the plus side, we have a story from our new Fall Associate Sam Brule (welcome, Sam!) about efforts by Jackson Heights residents and their elected officials to make Northern Boulevard (and, by extension, 34th Avenue) safer with a protected bike lane.
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.