The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We don’t know about you, but we’re still working hard to get out the news to our beloved (and generous?) readers. And though it is just one day before Christmas Eve, we are still pounding our laptops furiously at our desks.
Case in point: Today’s newsletter. Read all about:
–> Gov. Phil Murphy’s New Jersey Turnpike boondoggle.
–> A new labor advocate with a big chair in the Mamdani City Hall.
–> The latest installment of this year’s Streetsies, focusing on the fatal crashes that horrified the city (or at least those of us who pay attention).
–> Today’s headlines.
–> And even a nice story about some very solid detective work by the NYPD to collar a killer hit-and-run driver.
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.
