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Op-Ed: Communities of Color Need Protected Lanes, Too!
Bike-infrastructure inequities among neighborhoods continue — which is hard to square with Mayor de Blasio's stated goal of knitting together the "two cities" of New York. The Department of Transportation must fix the problem.
July 3, 2019
DOT’s Forthcoming ‘Cycling Safety Plan’ Won’t Likely Break the Car Culture
Can Polly Trottenberg save Vision Zero?
July 3, 2019
BREAKING: Mayor Calls for Immediate Crackdown on Reckless Drivers
Mayor de Blasio finally acts to stop the carnage.
July 1, 2019
UPDATE: NYPD Arrests Driver Who Hit and Killed a Woman in the Crosswalk
Updated: Cops cuffed the driver who struck and killed a woman in a crosswalk of a Brooklyn intersection, the NYPD said on July 8.
July 1, 2019
‘End Legal Murder In NYC’! Hundreds Mourn Cyclist Robyn Hightman in Memorial Ride
Hundreds of cyclists rode from Williamsburg to Chelsea last night, taking over the roadway from lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, in a memorial ride for 20-year-old Robyn Hightman, a bike courier who this week became the 12th cyclist killed on New York City streets in 2019.
June 28, 2019
Op-Ed: Riverside Park Greenway Bike Bypass is An Accident Waiting To Happen
The newly designated detour on the nation’s busiest cycling path is well intentioned. Recently a 4-year-old child was injured by a speeding cyclist on the greenway. But the "solution" is deeply flawed — so flawed, in fact, that the city should reconsider its decision forcing cyclists to use the bypass.
June 27, 2019
Streetsblog Gets Action! DOT Repaints Basic Markings on the Brooklyn Bridge
The Department of Transportation, under fire for not ensuring safety on the Brooklyn Bridge bike and walking path, has finally painted a new center stripe and lane markings to discourage pedestrians and cyclists from mixing.
June 27, 2019
Pedestrian Struck and Killed in Flushing — No Tickets Issued
A Flushing driver killed a pedestrian on Saturday, this time on dangerous Main Street, where disorder and chaos rule.
June 24, 2019
UPDATED: 14th Street Landowners Sue City over Car-Free ‘Busway’
The 14th Street Coalition says the DOT plan violates state environmental law because the agency didn't conduct a serious assessment of the impact that banning cars from 14th Street would have on neighboring residential streets.
June 21, 2019
Paper Plates from Jersey Make Scamming NYC Easy!
Car dealerships in upper Manhattan are taking parking theft to a new level of scam.
June 21, 2019
