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Outraged Lawmakers and Advocates Urge City Action over Unsafe School Streets
Moving beyond thoughts and prayers to action.
June 1, 2022
DOT Commissioner: City Must Do More to Keep Kids Safe from Cars Outside Schools
Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez's comments are the first from a high-ranking city official in the wake of Streetsblog's investigation into the dangers of school streets.
May 27, 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
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Lessons from Britain’s ‘School Streets’
How London learned to keep children safe and healthier by restricting cars.
October 20, 2021
Op-Ed: Why Bad City Design is Failing Our Kids (And What to Do About It)
We need to change the way we think about kids and about our cities. We need to think of kids as full members of society and we need to design our neighborhoods for kids to have full, rich childhoods that let them grow into well-rounded members of our communities.
September 13, 2021
Opinion: To Avoid a COVID Resurgence, Mayor de Blasio Must Create Open Streets for Schools
Taking our schools outdoors should not be a revolutionary idea, after our year-long dining experiment. Yet the city has been sluggish at best about moving schools into outdoor space, let alone streets.
September 9, 2021
OPINION: When Schools Meet Streets, Good Things Happen
Good things happen — and children flourish — when school activities expand out of doors, a City Council candidate argues.
May 26, 2021
Opinion: Safe School Transportation Must Be in Infrastructure Bill
April 5, 2021
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
February 13, 2021
SEE IT: Streetfilms Shows How Much Better Kids’ Lives Are When they Can Safely Bike To School…
...which they can't, because most of New York City is a hellscape of double-parked trucks, reckless drivers and dangerously designed roads.
November 20, 2020
