The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Sunday’s rain has passed and the weather is supposed to be beautiful today. If you’re lucky enough to have the day off, get outside.
Streetsblog will be back at full speed on Tuesday; for now, spend your holiday Monday on the Great American Road Trip, without leaving New York City: We spent the summer scouring the city for license plates from all 50 states and the District of Columbia — and succeeded.
Unsurprisingly, the vehicles we found appeared to belong to more-or-less permanent residents — the records of one vehicle after another showed years of tickets accrued on Big Apple streets to cars registered elsewhere.
Find out the worst offending states — and neighborhoods — here.
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.