The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez’s attempt yesterday to blame others for his agency’s shortcomings while also seeking to convince the incoming mayor of what a great job he did.
We also have an op-ed about Fifth Avenue, today’s headlines and the latest episode in our ongoing year-in-review coverage.
Plus, don’t miss Dave Colon’s late-in-the-day report about activists’ latest demands on the Cross Bronx Expressway project.
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
