This Is the Tool You Need to Push for Safer Streets in Your Part of NYC
When CHEKPEDS introduced Crash Mapper a year ago, it was already an improvement over City Hall's Vision Zero View. Crash Mapper uses the same data as the city map, but the public can do a lot more with it.
March 2, 2018
Street Cheats Are Bullish on Pine Street in the Financial District
Streets in the Financial District predate the automobile and are very narrow by today's standards. Tell that to the Street Cheats who cause headache-inducing scenes like this one.
February 23, 2018
NYC Health Department Closes Ranks Around Staffer Caught Repeatedly Stealing Curb Space
DOH won't reveal who habitually left a fleet vehicle in a no parking zone next to a park entrance on the Manhattan street where Commissioner Mary Bassett owns a home. The agency did not take the car away from the employee.
February 23, 2018
Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways
@illegal53NYC is doing for illegally oversized trucks what @placardabuse does for placard abuse -- drawing attention to a pervasive and dangerous traffic problem that City Hall and NYPD have not addressed in any meaningful way.
February 22, 2018
NYPD: No Charges for Driver Who Killed Senior Walking With Right of Way in Woodside
The collision occurred at an intersection where DOT allows people to park their cars to the edge of crosswalks, which hinders visibility and safety.
February 21, 2018
