The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
It was a busy election night, so we’ll lead with the results.
But don’t miss David Meyer’s piece on the latest fight over federal infrastructure reauthorization or law enforcement reporter Sammy Sussman’s latest blockbuster about reckless driving by members of the NYPD.
Below that, Dave Colon looked at the ongoing battle between the MTA and Amtrak over President Trump’s Penn Station renovation. Janno Lieber and Andy Byford are fighting in the press, but there are real ramifications for all of us.
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.