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Yet Another Report Makes Clear Case for City Control of Speed Cameras
Almost 60 percent of road fatalities in the five boroughs occur in the hours when the cameras are, by current law, unable to issue tickets.
May 10, 2022
City Launches a New Vision Zero Billboard Campaign — With Little Proof that Such Things Work
The mayor decides to spend $4 million on public education — money that one activist called "a waste" and whose utility the Department of Transportation could not provide.
May 3, 2022
Pols Want Every Kid in NYC to Learn How to Ride a Bike
Learning to ride a bike in New York should be like riding a bike!
April 29, 2022
CYCLE OF RAGE: The Car that Never Moves Yet Endangers Pedestrians (And is of No Concern to the NYPD)
There's a broken-down car on Ocean Parkway that has not moved since at least July, 2020. Yet it's only been ticketed three times, despite more than 30 complaints to 311. Oh, and it has an NYPD vest on the dashboard. Herein lies a great yarn.
April 28, 2022
34TH AVE. UPDATE: DOT Presents ‘Bold’ Plan for the Permanent Open Street Called ‘Paseo Park’
The agency said it was motivated primarily by safety and by the higher numbers of pedestrians than vehicles for most of the day.
April 28, 2022
Bronx Scooter Share Has Been a Huge Success, DOT Says as Phase II Prepares to Launch
Hundreds of thousands of rides and no fatalities or even serious injuries.
April 27, 2022
Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’
HIzzoner said he would use his octopine enforcement arms to "find [reckless drivers] proactively, and get them off the streets." Details, however, have not been provided.
April 27, 2022
OPINION: Swap Out Car Lanes for a Center-Running Bus Lane, Better Bike Facilities on Queens Boulevard
Here's a better way to fix of the 'Boulevard of Death' than the DOT has yet proposed.
April 26, 2022
EXCLU: Council Transportation Chair’s Car Sped Through School Zones 17 Times in a Year
Do as I say, not as I do.
April 26, 2022
THE BRAKE: Should Cities Train Their Own Transportation Advocates?
On this week's podcast, we explore why it's so hard to get a new crosswalk — for both the citizen and the transportation professional at the other end of the request.
April 26, 2022
