The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is an exclusive: The mayor’s charter commission panel is going to proposed letting voters approve measures that would streamline street safety projects as well as outdoor dining.
Kevin Duggan has the scoop.
We also have our World Cup roundup. The monthlong football fest not only showcased the beautiful game, but allowed our city to put its best foot forward. Double-Duty Duggan has that story, too.
Plus we have a look at President Trump’s Big Brother approach to road safety. And even an upstate report from Austin C. Jefferson.
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.