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We don’t usually lead our daily newsletter with our daily headlines post, but we are today because it features a crucial assignment for members of the mainstream press: Please go to today’s demonstration of “speed-limiter technology” that state Sen. Andrew Gounardes is doing in Brooklyn.
As you recall, Gounardes has, for years, been trying to mandate the installation of speed governors in the cars of the very worst of the worst drivers — drivers who rack up 16 speed-camera tickets in a year!
Today at 11:30, he’ll show just how sensible this technology is because all it does is make drivers do what they’re supposed to be doing already: drive the speed limit!
If that’s not enough to entice you, the best babka in the city is two blocks away at a bakery called Yardsale.
Also in today’s newsletter:
* Aaron Short has a story about a key court win for the climate. * Nolan Hicks has a story about trying to make a dangerous intersection safer in the Village. * Erin McAuliff writes about making sure paratransit doesn’t get thrown out with the bathwater. * You can read about the expansion of our newsroom, too!
“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
New Yorkers can vote to stop those endless anti-bike lane lawsuits.
Cyclists frequently get hit by truckers on Rust Street, but the city has not made good on its promise to solve the problem.
The horses are being banished to be replaced by … electric cars?! Plus other news.
