The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The streets are still unsafe, for so many reasons. Today, we have two more examples:
In our first story below, Editor Gersh Kuntzman reviews a short video of a man being run over by a reckless driver — and pieces together all of the ways that our officials have failed us (did he leave any out?).
Below that, Sophia Lebowitz looks into a new report from Teamsters Local 804 about the dangers of last-mile delivery companies like Amazon.
Plus today’s headlines.
And definitely check our homepage later for some big news at 9 a.m.
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.
