The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The streets around our offices in Lower Manhattan were filled on Tuesday with federal agents seeking to arrest illegal vendors in a crackdown that had nothing to do with violent crime and everything to do with intimidation.
We were there in a special edition of today’s headlines.
But please leave room for desert, in the form of our other stories.
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.
The devices — called Intelligent Speed Assistance — prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit
