The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Hope you all made it out of yesterday’s deluge unscathed (and not too soggy).
Today’s newsletter brings you Kevin Duggan’s dispatch from yesterday’s e-bike 15 mph speed limit hearing. Turns out, both e-bike friends AND foes think it’s a load of crock. We also have Sophia Lebowitz’s coverage of a commitment by over 200 cyclists that they’ll sue the city if Mayor Adams’s removal of three blocks of the Bedford Ave. protected bike lane leads to their injury.
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.
