The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
There’s some politicking afoot here in the Big Apple, and while that’s true pretty much every week, we have two stories for you today that make this extra clear:
First, from Matthew Sage, a look at the last roadblock to implementing universal daylighting across the city: Speaker (and former mayoral candidate) Adrienne Adams.
And also: Kevin Duggan spoke to two Dinowitzes in power in the Bronx about their opposition to a life-saving bike lane in their district. As always, they say they support bike lanes… but just not when it removes a few parking spots.
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.
