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It’s been 12 months since the 18-month deadline passed that the Hochul administration set for itself to produce a study and proposal to improve safety on the West Side Highway.
What’s the hold-up? New York State DOT tells us they’ve simply received so much feedback that takes time to incorporate.
The last public meetings for the study were in the spring of 2025. In the meantime, the corridor remains a dangerous game of Frogger for pedestrians and cyclists who have to cross its six lanes to access the Hudson River greenway and other points of interest on the waterfront.
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.