The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Sometimes, you gotta hand it to the hard-working staff of Streetsblog. Our coverage of the flaws of Mayor Adams’s outdoor dining program — which gutted the pandemic-era al fresco eating scene — have led to the City Council and Mayor Mamdani doing the right thing: Outdoor dining will be a year-round program again, with fees on restaurateurs to rent the street space.
Also in today’s newsletter: an exclusive excerpt from Sam Schwartz’s autonomous vehicle thriller, “Autokill”!
Plus so much more news.
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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.