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The Central Park Conservancy “would love to see the entire park looped by bike lanes.” It would also “love to see bike lanes on the transverses starting at 86th Street.”
That’s the primary takeaway from Kevin Duggan’s conversation with David Saltonstall, the conservancy’s vice president for government relations, policy and community affairs. Saltonstall said the conservancy agrees with advocates that protected bike lanes around the park and on its transverses would alleviate crowding on its park drives.
“We think that’s appropriate, and I think it would take a lot of pressure off the park because so many people use it just to get from one place to another safely, because it’s their best option,” Saltonstall told Duggan.
Read the full interview here. And be sure check out our Central Park live blog from yesterday, when we fanned out across the park to talk to park goers and forged a path for safety in the world’s most famous public space.
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.