{"id":355623,"date":"2026-09-24T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:19:16","slug":"nyc-council-member-pushes-for-more-low-traffic-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355623\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council member pushes for more \u2018low-traffic areas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some City Council members are looking to discourage driving by creating more \u201clow-traffic areas\u201d across New York City.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The bill comes as Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration works to reimagine Vision Zero, an effort Abreu has supported.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d Thursday to discuss the legislation and his vision for safer city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some City Council members are looking to discourage driving by creating more \u201clow-traffic areas\u201d across New York City.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109,2274,2275,9,24,12,63,87,1103,134,136,135,200],"class_list":["post-355623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}