The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s newsletter opens with an exclusive piece by a driving instructor reflecting on a major bribery scandal at the state DMV.
Plus, we have another upstate contribution — this time about a flawed “complete streets” redesign in the so-called “river towns” — by Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson.
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.