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In unsurprising news, an e-micromobility industry group is applauding Mayor Mamdani’s efforts to make the streets more hospitable to people outside of cars — but say his administration must do more to boost the adoption of e-micromobility.
Self interest aside, infrastructure improvements do make NYC’s streets safer for everyone: Pedestrians, drivers, and those on two wheels. Interestingly, the Next Mile Coalition also is proposing that the city creates a trade-in program to get illegal e-motos off the streets.
Read more about the group’s proposals at the link below. And be sure to check out the rest of today’s news before the weekend begins.
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.