The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s top story: Mayor Mamdani’s charter revision committee is pushing for the silver bullet of municipal government: a way to no longer require the Department of Transportation to analyze, plan and consult on every little thing that it does. Kevin Duggan has the exclusive.
Also in today’s newsletter, another one from Double-Duty Duggan: Finally, the Department of Sanitation agrees that buildings could easily share those Empire Bins, bringing us one tiny step closer to practices that Europe has been following for years.
Plus today’s headlines — with details on how to get a sprinkler cap for your fire hydrant.
Look, it’s going to be hot out there, so don’t be a hero. Stay inside, drink lots of fluids (no, that’s not an excuse to day drink!), and stay cool. We’ll talk again after the big birthday bash.
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.