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Surging Candidate Garcia Supports 34th Ave. Linear Park
The former Sanitation commissioner is the first of this year's mayoral candidates to put her John Hancock on a petition calling for the creation of a linear park on 34th Avenue in Queens.
May 26, 2021
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
May 26, 2021
DRIVING US MAD: Number of SUVs and Similar Cars is Up 21 Percent in NYC, TA Reveals
That’s bad news for pedestrians, cyclists and anyone who values safe streets.
May 25, 2021
How To Design Life-Saving, Low-Speed Zones
A new guide by WRI and the World Bank sets out guidelines for planning, designing, implementing and evaluating low-speed zones. Check it out.
May 25, 2021
#StuckAtDOT: The Case of the Missing Crosswalk
A block in Astoria with a playground and a school lacks crucial pedestrian infrastructure. Why?
May 24, 2021
People to Feds: Design Streets Better!
A proposed revision of the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways generated unprecedented public interest.
May 24, 2021
SEE IT: Here’s What TransAlt’s ’25X25′ Looks Like (And What Kathryn Garcia Loves)
Transportation Alternatives has now made it possible to visualize its "NYC 25X25" plan to reclaim 25 percent of public roadway space from automobiles — and the resulting schematics already shook up the mayor's race even before Friday's release.
May 21, 2021
Cops Seek Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Williamsburg Man on Tuesday
According to the NYPD, the driver of the black luxury sedan was traveling southbound on McGuinness Boulevard at around 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday when he or she slammed into the pedestrian at the intersection of Bayard Street.
May 18, 2021
UNCIVIL WAR! Parking-Obsessed Opponents of Health, Safety and Parks Berate DOT Officials for an Hour
Is this what democracy looks like? If so, can we try another system?
May 13, 2021
STREETS WEEK! DOT Commish Diagnoses Conduit Boulevard, Then Prescribes The Wrong Treatment
As Streets Week! begins, here's an existential question that Mayor de Blasio doesn't like to answer: Why does New York even have roads like Conduit Boulevard?
May 10, 2021
