The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today from award-winning reporter Sophia Lebowitz is about yet another delivery company that shortchanges workers out of their hard-won minimum pay. Paying workers too little makes streets less safe, because it encourages workers to rush and take shortcuts that can lead to injuries.
We also have some must-read national coverage, and today’s headlines.
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.