Amy Cohen and other advocates want the city to accelerate Vision Zero, the street safety program launched in 2014. Read about it here.
NEW YORK (VINnews) – New York City will expand real-time bus arrival information to thousands of additional stops across the five boroughs, with installations beginning this year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
City Council leaders championed the horse carriage ban as a humane and safe move after years of debate, voting Thursday to outlaw the industry. Read about it here.
Our rivers should connect us, not divide us. Read the op-ed here.
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Majority Leader Shaun Abreu discuss new dynamometers that test and confiscate illegal e-bikes, the upcoming vote to ban horse carriages, and recent vandalism at a Capital One bank that the NYPD says is a possible hate crime. Watch it here.
There are many illegal e-bikes and e-scooters zipping around the Big Apple, but given that they are often physically indistinguishable from their legal counterparts, they have proven difficult for the NYPD to indentify and seize.
Democratic leaders of the City Council hope to change that reality by passing legislation requiring the NYPD and the city Department of Transportation (DOT) to test the use of dynamometers — treadmill-like devices that can measure the speed, power, and torque of electric micromobility devices.
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PoliticsNY’s latest special edition, Inside Government: Transportation features the government officials shaping New York’s transportation landscape. Today’s Q&A is with New York City Council Majority Leader Shaun Abreu. Majority Leader Abreu is chair of the NYC Council Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and represents the 7th Council District. Read the Q&A here.
The new caucus will be pushing ten bills in the city council next year.
On the eve of “Super Bowl Wednesday,” City Council Transportation Chair Shaun Abreu speaks directly to Streetsblog readers about e-bikes. Read more here.
New legislation being introduced by Manhattan Council Member Shaun Abreu would expand the use of measures such as speed humps, medians and other physical barriers designed to slow drivers down. Abreu joined “Mornings On 1” Thursday to discuss the legislation and his vision for safer city streets.