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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.

Some enforcement: An NYPD SUV parks in a bike lane in Manhattan. 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 earlier this year, pinning a woman. 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.

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 may become more common. File 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.)

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