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DOT Plans Changes for UWS Intersections After Pedestrian Deaths [Updated]
Video: Barron Lerner, uncle of Cooper Stock, speaks at last night's CB 7 forum.
January 31, 2014
Barron Lerner: It’s Time to Treat Reckless Driving Like Drunk Driving
The most basic flaw in the New York State traffic justice system is that in most cases it fails to hold motorists accountable for deadly recklessness. Unless a motorist is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, killing someone with a car is usually not considered a crime.
January 24, 2014
The Suburb Where Everybody Can Walk to School
Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn't have any school buses. It never has.
January 17, 2014
At Upper West Side Vigil, Families Mourn 9-Year-Old Lost to Traffic Violence
Hours after Mayor de Blasio unveiled his administration's approach to sharply reducing traffic deaths yesterday, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at an Upper West Side intersection to mourn 9-year-old Cooper Stock, who was killed last Friday by a turning taxi driver while crossing West End Avenue with his father.
January 16, 2014
9-Year-Old Boy, Mother, and Senior Killed in Weekend of Motorist Violence
Three pedestrians were fatally struck by motorists over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of people killed while walking in New York City in the first two weeks of 2014.
January 13, 2014
Unlicensed Truck Driver Kills Noshat Nahian, 8, in Northern Blvd Crosswalk
This morning just before 8:00 a.m., Noshat Nahian, age 8, was on his way from his home on 32nd Avenue to school at PS 152 when a tractor-trailer driver turning left onto Northern Boulevard struck Nahian in the crosswalk along 61st Street. He was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital.
December 20, 2013
Cab Driver Who Killed 5-Year-Old Remains in Good Standing With TLC
The cab driver who killed a 5-year-old child in Brooklyn last year is still on the road. Meanwhile, the civil suit filed by the victim's parents was transferred to NYC this week from Texas, where the family lives.
December 19, 2013
How Children Demanding Play Streets Changed Amsterdam
The above video, excerpted from a Dutch television documentary series, shows how children helped catalyze the fight for safe streets in Amsterdam more than a generation ago.
December 13, 2013
Parents of Allie Liao: ‘We Challenge Drivers to Pause and Ask – Is It Worth It?’
Last month, three year-old Allison Liao was crossing Main Street in Flushing with her grandmother when an SUV driver turned left, hitting and killing the toddler while she had the walk signal in the crosswalk. Yesterday in Jackson Heights, Liao's parents marched with the families and friends of other traffic violence victims, and made this powerful plea for a safer driving culture.
November 13, 2013
DOT Now Accepting Applications for 2014 Bike to School Program
DOT launched the second annual Bike to School competition on Tuesday.
November 8, 2013