Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Enforcement

Yes, the latest e-bike crackdown included a bicycle with a child's seat. Photo: NYPD

Speaker Corey Johnson Fights 13th Precinct Over E-Bike Confiscations

By David Meyer | May 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

Johnson trolled commanders of a Midtown Manhattan police precinct on social media this week after they boasted on Twitter about confiscating four electric bicycles that appeared to belong to delivery workers— including one with a child's seat.

This Google street view shows the cab stand and the Mobil station at issue in the lawsuit by the family of dead pedestrian Sherena Hundalani. Photo: Google

Family of Dead Queens Pedestrian To Sue City Over Fatal Taxi Driver Crash

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 23, 2019 | 11 Comments

It's a bid to hold someone accountable for the death of Sherena Hundalani, 26, who was run over by a cab driver on a sidewalk.

Another Truck Driver Fatally Backs Over Another Pedestrian — And is Not Charged

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 21, 2019 | 9 Comments

A senior citizen was killed by a truck driver who backed over him on First Avenue on Tuesday morning — the second such incident in the same day and the second time the driver was not initially charged.

On northbound Jay Street, cyclists are currently forced into a narrow traffic lane between Johnson and Tillary streets because the DOT has not fully built out the protected bike lane — and because the NYPD does not enforce "No Standing" rules against placarded cars. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

DOT Says It Will Fill Jay Street Bike Lane Gaps This Year

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 21, 2019 | 5 Comments

Manhattan Bridge-bound commuters: Your long unprotected nightmare is (almost) over.

If roads were designed for people instead of for cars, the issue of "distracted pedestrians" would not even exist. Photo: Duncan Harris

Whew! Sen. John Liu’s Bill to Criminalize Walking Is Likely DOA

By Julianne Cuba | May 20, 2019 | 21 Comments

An upstate lawmaker appears ready to stop a bill that no real New Yorker would ever have introduced — Queens Senator John Liu's absurd bill to empower the NYPD to write tickets to "distracted" pedestrians.

The information the government doesn't want you to see. Source: Posts Service Inspector General

The Postal Service Doesn’t Want You To Know Where Its Worst Drivers Are

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 15, 2019 | 17 Comments

The United States Postal Service Inspector General won't release the locations where its auditors found egregious fleet safety violations, citing a rule protecting "trade secrets ... which, under good business practice, would not be publicly disclosed."

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