Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DMV Reform

Who is going to teach new drivers what to do in this situation? A human or a computer? Photo: U.S. Army

UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED: NYS Is About to Make it Even Easier for Untrained Drivers to Get Licenses

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 23, 2019 | 28 Comments

State lawmakers are making it easier for bad drivers to get licenses by allowing student drivers to take a questionable online safety course rather than the previously mandated five-hour, instructor-taught classroom session.

Vigil for Abigail Blumenstein and Joshua Lew. Video still: WCBS

Charting a New Course to Street Safety

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 9, 2018 | 6 Comments

Calming one dangerous street at a time, as NYC DOT promised this week, too late, for 9th Street, is just part of the task before us.

When We Treat Driving as a Fundamental Right, People Lose Their Lives

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2018 | 15 Comments

Officials and the media are questioning how Dorothy Bruns, who posed such an obvious and significant threat to public safety, was allowed to drive.

Gov. Cuomo. Photo: Governor’s Office/Flickr

People Are Dying Because Cuomo’s Leaderless DMV Is Failing to Regulate Dangerous Motorists

By Brad Aaron | Sep 20, 2017 | 5 Comments

The New York State DMV, which has been without a commissioner for years, is refusing to answer questions about this week's deadly Queens bus crash.

Lauren Davis was killed by a turning driver on Classon Avenue last April. Photo: Family of Lauren Davis

Instead of a Classon Avenue Bike Lane, Bed-Stuy Electeds Want a Street Where No One Rides Bikes

By David Meyer | Jun 20, 2017 | 18 Comments

On Thursday, DOT announced plans to paint a bike lane on Classon Avenue, the northbound one-way street where a left-turning driver killed Lauren Davis as she rode her bike to work last April. As bicycle infrastructure goes, it's the bare minimum -- some stripes and stencils to designate space for biking, with no changes to moving lanes or parking. But that hasn't stopped a group of local officials from coming out against it.

Citing Erroneous NYPD Report, State DMV Judge Declines to Take Action Against Driver Who Killed Lauren Davis

By David Meyer | Apr 28, 2017 | 57 Comments

The family of Lauren Davis is reeling after a judge at the state Department of Motor Vehicles declined to take action against the motorist who struck and killed her on Classon Avenue last year. Davis's mother, sister, and brother traveled from California to attend the hearing, and said they had been told by the NYPD Highway Patrol detective investigating the crash that he would also be there. He never showed up.

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