The city is appealing a court order blocking its plan to ban cars from sections of 14th Street in Manhattan.
The city’s Law Department filed an appeal to Judge Eileen Rakower’s decision Tuesday, asking that the jurist rescind her temporary injunction on a pilot plan to restrict five blocks of 14th Street to buses, trucks with three axles or more and local residents and deliveries.
The proposal is designed to speed up public buses, city officials say.
Rakower called off the car ban Friday — just three days before it was set to begin — in response to West Village lawyer Arthur Schwartz’s lawsuit charging that the city had not done its due diligence in studying potential adverse traffic impacts on side streets.
The partial street closure was included in the city’s new “Select Bus Service” program. Other parts of it launched on 14th Street on Monday, including off-board fare payment and a reduced number of stops.