The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
It’s Christmas Eve Day — so we’re still cranking out important stories and rolling out all our end-of-year Streetsies Awards. All our coverage is archived here, but today’s entries are our two favorites: The best projects and worst failures of city government.
And you get to vote!
Meanwhile, we also have a data crunch on how many car drivers are likely committing insurance fraud — is anyone in Albany or Hartford listening?
Plus today’s headlines and other news as you gear up for the holiday.
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
