The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today: DOT ignores the public in its possibly illegal bid to enforce a 15-mile-per-hour e-bike speed limit.
To be clear, Streetsblog has not taken an editorial position against a speed limit for motorized bikes. But we have opined at great length that the Adams administration is going about it all wrong. And the experts agree!
Also in the newsletter today, our editor in chief spews more expletives than Earl Weaver yelling at an umpire after a German tourist is decapitated by a reckless driver with a fake plate in Midtown. Enough is enough, people.
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.
The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
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.
“I’m not willing to keep our teams active in the field,” Lieber said on Thursday morning.
Streetsblog interviewed the president and public relations director of the Century Road Club Association.
The devices — called Intelligent Speed Assistance — prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit
New Yorkers can vote to stop those endless anti-bike lane lawsuits.
