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Be the first on your block to flaunt this laminated piece of New York history: a symbol of status that is also simultaneously a spoof of the city’s placard elite.
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Also in today’s news digest: An MIT grad student has found a flaw in how the city counts cyclists. And join Editor Gersh Kuntzman as he does more drugs in the 10th Avenue bike lane (it’s for a good cause!).
And don’t miss yesterday’s late-breaking news about the city’s secure bike parking plans.
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.
