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Mobileye — and the Met. Photo: Mobileye, an Intel Company

Self-Driving Car Industry, Promising Safety, Pushes Back on DOT Plan to Regulate Testing

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

The proposed rules would make NYC "inhospitable" to life-saving autonomous vehicle technology, reps for tech giants said at a hearing on Wednesday.

Union Square looking south from Broadway at 17th St. under a business improvement district plan. Photo: Marvel courtesy of the Union Square Partnership

Re-Emergence of ‘Broadway Vision’ Plan Startles Some

By Eve Kessler | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

Pedestrianization at Union Square gains impetus from a business-improvement district — not the DOT.

This is every day. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

TRASH TALK! Mayor Wants To Think About Getting Filthy, Rodent-Infested Garbage Bags out of Pedestrians’ Way

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 3, 2020 | No Comments

"It sure is an interesting idea. It's something I'm happy to look at," he said.

DATA: Safe Streets Are an Equity Issue — And the City is Failing the Most Vulnerable

By Christine Berthet | Aug 19, 2020 | No Comments

Despite Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program, injuries from traffic crashes in 2018 and 2019 were 1 percent higher than in 2016 and 2017. But in communities of color, the number of crash-caused injuries are soaring by double digit percentages.

Here's why you can't trust cops to do bike lane enforcement. File photo: Dan Miller

Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

An influential Manhattan panel voted to return street safety to the DOT. Will Mayor de Blasio heed the call?

A SUV driver crashed into a coffee shop in Brooklyn in 2020, injuring a woman. It was one of tens of thousands of injury-producing crashes citywide last year. Photo: Waddie Grant via Instagram

ANALYSIS: Growing SUV Carnage Shows Need for Tougher Policies

By Eve Kessler | Jun 4, 2020 | No Comments

Rising crash injuries and basically flat traffic deaths point to the shortcomings of Vision Zero. And data from Crashmapper shows the dangers of SUVs.

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