Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about fatalities

Motorists are seeking ingenious ways to defeat speed cameras such as this one. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

New App Helps Reckless Drivers Thumb Their Noses at City’s Speed Cameras

By Eve Kessler | May 13, 2022 | No Comments

Even as Albany lawmakers slow-walk the renewal of New York's speed camera system, a new cellphone app is helping reckless drivers avoid the devices entirely.

Holland Tunnel traffic inbound from New Jersey. The noise from such traffic can give you a heart attack, a study finds. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds

By Eve Kessler | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.

Riverdale Avenue is so fat it needs to be put on a diet, says DOT. Photo: Google and Streetsblog's Photoshop Team

Riverdale Rumble: Bronx Panel Rejects DOT Road Diet Plan for Super-Wide Avenue

By Eve Kessler | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

The majority on the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Bronx Community Board 8 objected to the DOT's proposed .75-mile-long "road diet," which would provide a treatment similar to the one it successfully installed across the Bronx on Morris Park Avenue.

Riverdale Avenue is so fat it needs to be put on a diet, says DOT. Photo: Google

Riverdale Avenue Rumble: Bronx Pol Dinowitz Objects to DOT’s Move on ‘Road Diet’

By Eve Kessler | Mar 25, 2022 | No Comments

A Bronx Council member is fighting a city proposal to calm traffic on an overwide, dangerous road in the northwest part of the borough — a proposal that has drawn support from a progressive candidate for state Senate.

EXCERPT: There are No ‘Accidents’ — We Have Been Fooled into Thinking There Are

By Jessie Singer | Feb 15, 2022 | No Comments

This excerpt from the new book, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster — Who Profits and Who Pays the Price" will make you rethink crashes, capitalism and culpability.

Still a speedway: Atlantic Avenue in 2018 (top) and in 2021. State Sen. Julia Salazar hopes to change that.

OPINION: City DOT Must Do More To Fix Atlantic Avenue

By Julia Salazar | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

Being a pedestrian or cyclist rather than a driver should not mean you are more likely to lose your life.

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