The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today we lead with a crackerjack bit of reporting from Sophia Lebowitz. After learning that a lithium-ion battery fires had risen — again — Lebowitz did some analysis to deliver the news that, well, the news isn’t all bad.
That said, the rise in fires shows that the frenzy of action that then-Mayor Adams and the City Council did in 2024 and 2025 isn’t enough.
Plus today’s headlines.
We’re sitting on a big mess of copy, so check back at our homepage later today for more news.
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.