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IT’S OVER: State’s Highest Court Sets Aside Last Challenges to City’s ‘Right of Way’ Law
It turns out it IS a crime to drive with negligence and then hit someone with your car.
October 12, 2021
Mayor, Lander, Gutman: Much-Touted ‘Safe-Driving’ Courses May Not Work, So Let’s Build on Them
Politicians who have hailed driver education courses as a linchpin of their efforts to rid the streets of bad drivers are now admitting that they — and other pols who aren't them — need to do even more. You think?
October 8, 2021
DOT’s ‘Vision Zero Partner’ Dermot Shea is More Afraid of Bikes Than Cars — Despite His Own Agency’s Data
He's the Vision Zero partner with zero vision.
October 6, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines: Impounding the Pavement Edition
The MTA really showed up the city by impounding a car belonging to a recidivist scofflaw. Plus other news.
October 6, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Reckless Driver Who Killed Baby Apolline Took Driver ‘Accountability’ Course — But It Didn’t Change a Thing
Such "safe-driving" courses are seen by some as a model for changing the behavior of reckless drivers. But there is limited evidence they work — and certainly did not in the case of Tyrik Mott.
October 6, 2021
DOT Wants Cameras to Catch Bike-Lane Blockers (But Will Albany Allow It?)
Lights, camera ... get that cop out of my bike lane!
September 24, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Passing the Buck on Unsafe Streets
Finger-pointing is a municipal tradition. So it was after a reckless driver hit and killed a 3-month-old baby in Clinton Hill on Sept. 11.
September 22, 2021
Potential Victims Will Have to Keep Waiting for ‘Dangerous Vehicle’ Program to Begin
The city won't start ordering recidivist reckless drivers to take a required safety classes until letters are sent out in "late October/early November," the Department of Transportation says.
September 21, 2021
Mayor Says He Doesn’t Know Why the ‘Reckless Driver’ Law Isn’t Saving Kids from the Deadliest Drivers
It's like one hand doesn't know what the other hand isn't doing.
September 15, 2021
Around and a Roundy: Listen to these Tickets!
No one can understand how a driver with 91 speed-camera and red-light tickets, plus multiple license suspensions, was still on the road to hit and kill a 3-month-old baby girl in Brooklyn. Here's one reason.
September 14, 2021
