The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
If you’re reading this on Tuesday morning, you’re probably still dealing with the mess of Sunday’s storm. Now, some inconvenience is to be expected, but if Streetsblog stands for anything, it stands for pedestrians — and, frankly, Monday was a shitshow for people on foot or in wheelchairs.
And that’s not right in the greatest walkable city in North America. So we expect more news as Mayor Mamdani faces questions from the press this morning.
But today’s newsletter isn’t only about the snow. We also have great stories from Kevin Duggan, John Surico and Brent Shearer.
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.