Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about CHEKPEDS

State DOT contractors placed jersey barriers on the Hudson River Greenway in 2017 to prevent cars from mowing down cyclists — but only now the state is going to improve the unprotected intersections. Photo copyright Shmuli Evers, used with permission.

West Side Story: Highway Will Become Safer, Thanks to Advocates, Hoylman

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 26, 2019 | 34 Comments

Drivers will be forced to slow down — and yield more to cyclists and pedestrians — as part of a long-overdue (but ultimately incomplete) state plan to make the West Side Highway safer.

This is every afternoon in New York City. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Will NYC Finally Get Garbage Out of Pedestrians’ Way?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 4, 2019 | 64 Comments

The departments of Sanitation and Transportation say they'll do something about it. But will their formal "request for expressions of interest" from community, industry and advocacy groups actually solve the problem?

State Senator Brad Hoylman is a supporter of congestion pricing, but its benefits will be felt much more in the outer boroughs. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Another Benefit of Congestion Pricing? Commuters Will Have Way More Time

By Gersh Kuntzman and David Meyer | Feb 6, 2019 | 6 Comments

You could binge watch all of the original "Star Trek" series, plus the movies! (Or you could just spend more time with your kids, or have less stress in your life.)

Separate green light phases for cyclists and left-turning motorists, like the one pictured here, wind up forcing cyclists to stop every two or three blocks. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Hey, DOT, Smarter Signal Timing Could Resolve Bike-Car-Pedestrian Conflict

By David Meyer | Nov 30, 2018 | 55 Comments

With the right traffic signal timing, city officials could maximize the successive green lights for all road users.

This Is the Tool You Need to Push for Safer Streets in Your Part of NYC

By Brad Aaron | Mar 2, 2018

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.

Crash Mapper provides greater flexibility to query and visualize crash data than the city's Vision Zero View tool.

Map the Dangerous Streets in Your Neighborhood With This New Tool

By David Meyer | Mar 8, 2017

The street safety advocates at Hell's Kitchen-based Chekpeds have relaunched NYC Crash Mapper, a tool lets you drill down on traffic crash data in your neighborhood, community board, or City Council district. The new Crash Mapper interface is a step up from City Hall's Vision Zero View tool, which launched in 2014, in some important ways.

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