Zohran Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas for NYC transportation team: ‘War on drivers’
Story by Gabrielle Fahmy • 1h
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels.
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani’s transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure — and his agenda is a nightmare for the city’s drivers.
Furnas was named to the post this week, but his group already had its “full transportation agenda” for the incoming administration ready to go, having released it earlier this month.
Among the plan’s more than 80 demands is a bizarre proposal to build playgrounds smack in the middle of city streets that would then be redesigned into cul-de-sacs — a move the group claims will solve the city’s “playground desert problem.”
The plan fails to mention how traffic would be rerouted.
The group also wants to create “school streets” by closing streets to traffic near every New York City school. Currently 72 of the Big Apple’s nearly 3,000 schools have done so.
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