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Widowed Husband of Slain Cyclist Says Ninth Street Redesign ’Falls Short’
The city's proposed changes to a dangerous stretch of Ninth Street in Gowanus do not go far enough to make the street safer, the widowed husband of a cyclist killed there earlier this year charged on Wednesday.
May 19, 2023
Harlem Assembly Member and Council Candidate Parks Illegally, Abuses Placard in Midtown
A Harlem Assembly Member who represents a district where nearly 80 percent of households do not own a car illegally parked her own luxury sedan on a busy Manhattan thoroughfare throughout the duration of a taped debate.
May 18, 2023
Advocates: City Must Make E-Mobility Safer and More Widespread — And Here’s How To Do It
The bike boom is now going vroom, vroom.
May 17, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: Honoring Adam Uster Edition
A dispatch from a vigil where family and friends of 39-year-old Adam Uster gathered. Plus other news.
May 11, 2023
Pols and Neighbors Call For a Safer Franklin Avenue After Killing of Cycling Advocate
A protected bike lane is needed, said the local Council member.
May 5, 2023
Cycling Advocate Killed By Trucker on Dangerous Brooklyn Street; Last Words from Mother: ‘Be Safe’
A cycling activist and member of Transportation Alternatives was killed while biking home from a Brooklyn grocery store on a dangerous street on Monday, according to his family and police.
May 3, 2023
Monday’s Headlines: Another Weekend, and Quarter, of CARnage Edition
Fifty-one people — including a record-high nine people on bikes — were killed on the roads in the first quarter of 2023. Plus other news.
May 1, 2023
In Wake of Death, Pols Want Mid-Block Crossings, Safer Atlantic Ave.
"It is wrong how deadly this strip is," Council Member Lincoln Restler said of the portion of Atlantic Avenue that functions as a speedway for drivers between the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Barclays Center.
May 1, 2023
New Law Requires ‘Daylighting’ At 100 Intersections Each Year — After ‘Study’
Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Queens), who chairs the transportation committee, introduced the bill last year, when 16 kids were killed in traffic violence, a record high in the Vision Zero era.
April 28, 2023
DOT Unveils ‘Concepts’ For Deadly Ninth Street, But Advocates Want Something Bolder
The Department of Transportation will finally add a protected bike lane to a dangerous Brooklyn strip that it had left out of previous redesigns despite its well-known danger — a decision that likely led to the death in January of 37-year-old Sarah Schick, who was killed on a Citi Bike.
April 28, 2023