As parents elsewhere in the country continue to inquire whether their grown offspring living in New York City are fully prepared for the impending snowmageddon, Mayor Bill de Blasio is putting a potentially huge crimp in hungry citizens’ plans for weathering the storm by banning all non-emergency vehicles on the streets after 11 p.m. tonight. That includes delivery vehicles and yes, even bikes.
The mayor announced the ban during a press conference today (via NBC News), ordering all vehicles off the streets including food delivery bicycles, saying, “This will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of New York City.”
With the snow already piling up and up to three feet expected on the way , it’s likely that many restaurants will be closed starting either tonight or tomorrow. We’ve reached out to GrubHub (which also owns fellow food delivery service Seamless) to see what the company expects restaurant owners to do, and will update this story if we hear back.
Though without bikes or plowed streets to ride them on, some restaurants will probably opt to keep their delivery personnel out of the drifting piles of snow. You know what that means — hit the store now and buy all the ramen noodles, peanut butter and wine your little arms can carry, folks. Or it’s gonna be a hungry few days for you.
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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