The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
DIY, not DOT.
As the Department of Transportation fails to create enough loading zones in residential areas, doormen in one of the richest neighborhoods in town are simply setting them up themselves — an ad hoc effort to make streets safer while also mitigating the unsafe road conditions and congestion that stem from the massive growth in deliveries.
In just a few hours of walking around on the Upper East Side, Streetsblog found dozens of the makeshift no-parking zones carved out of public space that many New Yorkers think is room for them to store their private vehicles.
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.