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Street Memorial Riders Urge City Hall to Tame Traffic Now
By Aaron Naparstek |
On Sunday, January 6, over 200 people gathered to remember those killed by motor vehicles while biking and walking the streets of New York City in 2007. StreetFilms was there for the Street Memorial Project’s 3rd Annual Memorial Ride & Pedestrian Walk. So were the parents of 27-year-old Sam Hindy, who was killed trying to […]
Remembering Cyclists and Pedestrians Lost in 2009
By Brad Aaron |
Cyclists gather Sunday at the Ghost Bike installation for Julian Miller, killed in Brooklyn last September. Photo: denali2001/Flickr Just a few hours into the new year, New York recorded its first pedestrian fatality of 2010. At around 6:45 p.m. on Friday, January 1, an unidentified 50-year-old man was struck and killed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The […]
Eyes on the Street: Michael Collopy is Dead Because the City Failed Him
By Julianne Cuba |
City officials are under fire following the death of a pedestrian after an apparent collision with a cyclist in Chelsea last month — but they’re being slammed not doing more to protect the most vulnerable road users at many poorly designed intersections in the city where cars are outnumbered yet get the vast majority of the […]
Memorializing Killed Cyclists: Is it Good for Cycling?
By Aaron Naparstek |
Yesterday, scores of cyclists took to the streets in a memorial ride for the 14 bikers and 134 pedestrians known to have been killed by motor vehicles on the streets of New York City in 2006 (photo, right). I didn’t get to go on the ride but I heard from some who did that it […]
Bratton’s Pedestrian Ticket Blitz Won’t Save Lives
By Ben Fried |
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s claim last week that 66 percent of pedestrian injuries “are directly related to the actions of pedestrians” was unsourced and at odds with existing research, but already it seems to be shaping NYPD’s enforcement efforts. On a horrifically violent weekend during which three pedestrians and one cyclist were killed by motorists on NYC […]
Coming Soon: More Continuity, Better Visibility on Hudson River Greenway
By Ken Coughlin |
A meeting of Manhattan Community Board 7’s Parks and Environment committee Monday night touched on several items of interest to the thousands of cyclists who use the Hudson River bike path, including the last remaining gap below the George Washington Bridge and the dangerous lack of lighting on some stretches of the greenway. Photo: Ken […]