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Say what you will about Dave Colon — and, believe us, Amtrak’s Andrew Byford, is saying plenty — but he is hip to the potential that President Trump’s renovation of Penn Station is one of the great grifts of our age.
Sure, we’ll get a nice-looking edifice, but a lot of oligarchs are going to likely to get very rich (looking at you James Dolan, Steve Roth and Halmar International) and we may not get a station that can take advantage of the doubled capacity once the Gateway Tunnels are done.
Meanwhile, we also have a report today about how much more traffic Waymo taxis cause compared to human-driven cabs.
Plus we report on state lawmakers who are sick of Attorney General Letitia James sitting on the sidelines as illegal e-motors continue to be sold
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.