The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The big story today is the latest attacks on the city’s decades-old citizen enforcement program to cut down on smoke-belching idling by commercial vehicles. If you like clean air, you’re for it. If you don’t like clean air — and you take contributions from bus companies — you’re Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer.
Let David Meyer talk you through the controversy.
Meanwhile, our other top stories today include a push to rein in the out-of-control Citi Bike fees, and another push to get Mayor Mamdani to make good on his promise to create hundreds of car-free school 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.