The Disappearing Sixth Avenue Protected Bike Lane
What could be a safe, direct connection to the Midtown core and Central Park instead deposits cyclists into five lanes of chaotic car traffic.
December 9, 2016
Pedestrians and Cyclists Get Room to Breathe on South Street
The pace is slow, but the city is making progress on the East River greenway in Lower Manhattan.
December 8, 2016
First Things First: Staten Island Needs Bikeable Streets
Borough President James Oddo says he wants bike-share for his constituents, but in his time in elected office, he's done little to make bicycling conditions safer on Staten Island.
December 7, 2016
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