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It’s Day 7 of the Mamdani administration and the new mayor has yet to disappoint the livable streets movement. But storm clouds are on the horizon: Kevin Duggan writes today about how the mayor has said he does not support his NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s criminal crackdown on cyclists … but he also hasn’t told her to stop.
We’re not panicking, but we have to admit that we have our finger on the red reset button of our Mamdani-O-Meter, which still shows a favorable count for the rookie mayor:
Even God rested on the seventh day, so let’s see if His earthly counterpart does.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
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.