The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our lead story today is good news for bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn: The city and the MTA are going to solve the problem of pernicious placard perps pestering plucky public transit users on the last block of an otherwise successful bus lane. Dave Colon has the scoop.
And don’t miss Austin C. Jefferson’s roundup of efforts upstate to (poorly) rein in illegal e-motos.
Plus today’s headlines and Sophia Lebowitz’s scoop that hundreds of trucks are roaming around the city without the required under-guards that can save lives.
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.