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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!
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
This year’s shortfall again underscores the Collision Investigation Squad’s limited safety role compared to peer cities such as Chicago.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
Our lives are defined by cars, even if we neither own nor drive them. Plus other news.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
