The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today: Proof that when you prevent cars from exceeding the speed limit, good things happen. That’s Kevin Duggan’s take on the Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ speed-governor program slowly rolling out in the city fleet.
So if you’re anywhere near Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, please let him know!
We have a lot more news in today’s mailing, so let’s just get to it:
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
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.