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DEP Will Make Idling Complaint Videos Available Online for Violators

The Department of Environmental Protection hopes increased transparency will spur more companies to plead guilty to idling violations without demanding a trial.

December 12, 2024

Adams Considering Letting Midtown Business Group Issue Parking Tickets So NYPD Can Tackle ‘More Serious Issues’

The Department of Finance retracted its proposal to allow the 34th Street Partnership to be the first business improvement district empowered to enforce city parking rules after we started asking about it.

December 5, 2024

Study Exposes NYPD’s ‘Systemic Failure’ To Enforce Safety-Related Parking Violations

A study of NYPD responses to 311 complaints found "inconsistent, and in some cases non-existent" enforcement of safety-related parking rules.

October 29, 2024

Monday’s Headlines: Violation Calculation Edition

Let's talk a little about NYPD enforcement of moving violations, plus other news (yet, understandably, not a word about our Mets).

October 7, 2024

Totaled Jerk: Reckless Driver Swerves Around School Bus, Crashes in Queens

A reckless driver with a record of road violations sped into a parked school bus in Elmhurst.

September 24, 2024

Council Bill Could Chill Citizen Reporting That Dramatically Boosted Idling Enforcement

Sweeping proposed changes to city's citizen commercial idling enforcement program will "chill" public participation, opponents warn.

September 13, 2024

DOT Seeks New Camera Enforcement Contract to Better Catch Obscured License Plates

The city's current contractor has let hundreds of thousands of reckless drivers off the hook.

July 11, 2024

Council Urges State to Expand City’s Tiny Red Light Camera Program to 600 Intersections

The state is expected to follow suit. But what happened to the promise of 1,325 intersections?

June 6, 2024

Streets and Highways are Becoming a Big Roadblock to Free Speech

Protests against Israel's assault on Gaza may shift from college campuses to roads — and most Americans like their cars more than free speech.

May 31, 2024

Hot Pursuit: NYPD Chases Still Surging Unleashing Danger on City Streets

Drivers seeking to escape the NYPD — and the agency's massive increase in its pursuit of said drivers — continue to surge.

May 29, 2024