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Community leaders and the courts are putting too much faith into dubious traffic studies that always seem to predict more and more driving, a new study argues — but that could change.

NYPD said the Action Carting driver "didn't realize" he ran over a man on a bicycle -- the same excuse police gave the media hours after the crash.

Today, U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group released a new report, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now.

NYPD's move to reclassify the Five Boro Bike Tour as a "non-charitable" event threatens to have some very real consequences for programs that teach kids to bike in New York City. By compelling the non-profit Bike New York to pay nearly a million dollars for police support for the bike tour, NYPD is jeopardizing bike education programs that reach thousands of New Yorkers.

When it comes to traffic fatalities, the scales of the American justice system are not weighted equally. Let's compare two cases.

Court documents reveal that NYPD decided not to charge the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed Brooklyn cyclist Mathieu Lefevre based on video of the crash. While it's not clear how video footage can prove that the driver didn't know he had hit Lefevre, it was apparently sufficient evidence for the department's Accident Investigation Squad.

Last week, we reported on the horrific story of Raquel Nelson, whose four-year-old son was killed as she attempted to cross the street with him to reach their home. Nelson was convicted of reckless conduct, improperly crossing a roadway and second-degree homicide by vehicle, all for the crime of being a pedestrian in the car-centric Atlanta suburbs. The conviction carried a sentence of up to 36 months, while the driver who killed Nelson's son -- who'd been drinking and using painkillers before getting behind the wheel -- got off with six months on a hit-and-run charge.

Another lawsuit against a good DOT project. Plus other news.

It's been closed for a year without causing traffic Armageddon.

A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.