The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
This is a big newsletter for you: First, check out David Meyer’s deep analysis of a judge’s flawed ruling that requires the Department of Transportation to remove the 31st Street bike lane in Astoria. Then you get a double dose of Dave Colon (wash your hands after, please!) with a story about the MTA’s open gangway short-sightedness and a dead-on update on how New Yorkers will likely be holding the bag for President Trump’s dream of a monumental Trump, er, Penn Station.
Even I pitched in some top-quality journalism with a story yesterday about the NYPD’s apparently racial bias in some bike tickets — and the agency’s failure to explain its motivation. As we say in the business, “Gotcha!”
And make sure you start your day with today’s headlines, which again shows that congestion pricing is working … among other things.
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
