The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today’s top story is the abject failure on Wednesday of Citi Bike to provide its customers with enough docks to keep the system running smoothly … and keep lower Manhattan workers in their jobs.
We also reveal that the NYPD is still completely capable of writing criminal summonses against cyclists, undermining Jim Walden’s latest lawsuit.
And we let you know that the city’s plans for making Canal Street safer are a bit … narrow.
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.