The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We held the newsletter a bit this morning to accommodate a great scoop: Streetsblog has learned that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is going to completely revise the agency’s policy for police chases, hopefully reining in a dangerous practice.
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.