I may be swimming against the current here — wouldn’t be the first time — but I’m never comfortable with someone’s expensive custom project that they almost immediately put up for sale. Fresh motor -- 150 miles WTF? -- and paint redone. Usually that’s a sign there are unexpected problems or unfinished parts of the…

I just thought that was a just some guy being flicked away, but I guess we have to point out a person’s race nowadays, do we?

I do service calls in all 5 boroughs. This is a pointless nightmare.

Just turning public streets into private gated communities.    Don’t go half in.   Ban all cars from these streets.   As it is, they are just keeping “those people” out.   Nothing like inclusive and acceptance except in some neighborhoods.    

I guess the deliveries come before 8am or after 8pm?

Right, cars don’t belong on streets. 

“more streets to be for people and not for cars” lolwut?

On today’s episode of JalopNYC, we figure out a way to make the city feel a little less like a city, massively inconveniencing fellow citizens while looking down on people who don’t live in this, the greatest city of all mankind.

Why do you write for Jalopnik?

You and your logic are not welcome here. 

Wasn’t the point of the street closures to give people room to walk around while socially distancing? Seems like having nightly block parties kinda defeats the purpose.

Urban streets are not conducive to human habitation. Then again, neither is New York City.

i still don’t completely get this. sure it’s nice on the surface, i love being able to walk in an empty street. but isn’t local traffic like 70% of the traffic on these minor streets that are getting closed? how is a car, let alone a delivery truck, going to navigate the street in the header image? and now you have…

To be fair, most places do not actually have police helicopters just cruising around. 

let them GO, and find them later.

These emergency rules are more frequently used than most people know. After every big disaster they issue them and they’re usually narrow enough so that they are not broadly used and abused. 

You went from 0-Domestic Violence in 3 secs flat. Impressive.

It’s a heck of a lot easier for someone to book a hot-shot truck delivery across multiple states than it is to coordinate emergency rail shipping through existing, rigid freight schedules that are not set up for overturning regular rail traffic logistics.

Correct, it’s happened on a localized level many times over the years, with no drastic increase in crashes I’ve ever heard of (last time I can remember it happening close to me as a fertilizer shortage in SD. They waved the restrictions so guys could truck fertilizer in from other states).  While it might sound like…

While this is the first time HOS limits have been suspended nationwide since the limits were put in place, there has been removals on the state level in response to localized disasters such as hurricanes.