Reinvent Albany: NYPD Needs to Open Up Its Traffic Summons Data
NYPD's TrafficStat site merely maps data that was already available and lacks data about where police are enforcing traffic laws, which the agency has refused to release for years.
December 6, 2016
Families for Safe Streets and DOT Cut the Ribbon on Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza
The plaza, on the block of Wyckoff Avenue between Myrtle and Gates, is the centerpiece of a major safety project that will reduce conflicts between drivers and pedestrians at an intersection where three people were killed by motorists since 2009.
December 2, 2016
Beyond Car Ownership: How Finland Set the Stage for Mobility-as-Service
This October, the Finnish company MaaS Global launched Whim, an app that serves as a portal to a wide array of transportation services. Helsinki residents who sign up for Whim pay a flat fee for unlimited access to transit and get points that can be spent on taxi rides or car rentals.
December 2, 2016
Vanterpool: Trump Can’t Take Away Our Ability to Make Transit Better
If you want better transit, now is not the time to get discouraged. At a Riders Alliance panel in Soho last night, Tri-State Transportation Campaign Executive Director Veronica Vanterpool delivered a message to transit advocates -- all politics is local, and city residents still have the power to win important transit victories.
December 1, 2016
The 111th Street Safety Project Has Changed, But Queens CB 4 Has Not
If DOT is going to implement a safer design of 111th Street in Corona, it won't be thanks to the local community board.
November 30, 2016
City Hall Puts NYPD’s TrafficStat Crash-Mapping Tool Online
The city will make "TrafficStat," NYPD's tool for mapping and analyzing traffic collision data, available online to the public. It's an improvement but lacks one very important type of information -- data about where police are enforcing traffic laws.
November 29, 2016
What Will It Take to Bring Bike-Share to Every Borough?
City Council members want bike-share to expand into their neighborhoods in a five-borough network. Officials at DOT and bike-share operator Motivate share that vision, but they said at a hearing today that it won't come cheap.
November 28, 2016
The Beginnings of the Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane
DOT is striping and painting the new two-way protected bike lane between the Manhattan Bridge and Houston Street.
November 21, 2016
Families of Crash Victims Pledge Action to Save Lives on Day of Remembrance
New Yorkers who lost loved ones to traffic violence gathered at City Hall Park yesterday to call on Mayor de Blasio and elected officials in Albany to do more to prevent traffic deaths on NYC streets.
November 21, 2016
Envisioning a More Equitable Future for NYC’s Burgeoning Bike-Share
While bike-share has become a viable and successful new way to get around NYC, it has yet to reach most of the city's low income neighborhoods and communities of color.
November 18, 2016
