Search Results for "school zone"

Our big story today is investigative reporter Jesse Coburn's six-month investigation into roadways around city school buildings (hint: kids are uniquely endangered). Check it out, plus all the other news.

Do as I say, not as I do.

City traffic "engineers" rely too heavily on federal guidelines that are biased against pedestrians. But a change may be on the way, at least for school zones.

It's not that kind of race, Councilman!

He's fast — and we're furious.

Sleepy de Blasio can't even pick the lowest-hanging fruit on the safety tree: get cars away from kids.

It was a busy day, with lots of very positive street-safety news, thanks to Mayor de Blasio, but that doesn't mean we won't quibble a bit! Click on the headline above to get our full news digest.

We encountered an illegally parked Reliant school bus in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday and decided to run the plate through Streetsie Award winner Brian Howald's indispensable @howsmydrivingny account: It turns out, the public school bus had run red lights or been caught speeding nine times! Hello, anyone awake at the switch at the Department of Education?

A new Transportation Alternatives report finds that speeding is common outside schools where cameras aren't in use.

Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard's efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary enforcement restrictions.