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While everyone was looking at the latest renderings for Penn Station, some people, including our own Dave Colon, were concerned about a quietly adopted amendment to a federal transportation bill that would allow Amtrak to finance its $8-billion renovation of the train hall by seizing properties and working with Trump-allied developers to divert tax money away from New York.
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.