The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story comes from our national reporter Ren Zaro Fitzgerald, who looked into the way libertarian lawmakers are trying to throw out the safety baby with the surveillance state bathwater.
It’s a story that could hit home if Washington pols try to tamper (as they’ve already been discussing) with our automated enforcement system.
Also, scroll down for some stories you might have missed over the weekend, including one about the NYPD’s quest to make Summer Streets as unwelcoming as possible.
And we also posted a story by law enforcement reporter Sammy Sussman revealing just how few bus and bike lane parking tickets cops wrote last week. It’s stunning (stunning how few, that is).
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.