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Which Precincts Are Making Progress on Vision Zero in Queens?
The advocates at Make Queens Safer have put together this handy visualization of NYPD enforcement trends in Queens using data scraped from PDFs the department posts online. You can see the big increase in failure-to-yield summonses, a smaller but significant bump up in speeding tickets last month, and a mild uptick in red light tickets. Pedestrian and cyclist injuries are back down to 2012 levels after an increase in 2013.
June 27, 2014
NYPD Is Ticketing More Drivers for Speeding on Neighborhood Streets
NYPD is issuing more speeding summonses this year than in 2013, and data show a substantial jump in the number of drivers ticketed for speeding on neighborhood streets. While the numbers represent an increase from the baseline, it will take a lot more summonses for enforcement to be commensurate with the scale of NYC's reckless driving problem.
June 18, 2014
Mother of Cooper Stock: NYPD Must Hold Reckless Cab Drivers Accountable
Update: According to a spokesperson for Mayor de Blasio, today's scheduled bill signing was postponed.
June 13, 2014
311 Is a Joke: NYPD Ignores Bike Lane-Blocking Big Rigs in Red Hook
In the space of a few hours this afternoon, one cyclist's experience, chronicled in real time on Twitter, summed up NYPD's indifference to keeping bike lanes clear of motor vehicles.
June 10, 2014
For Cooper’s Law to Work, NYPD Must Change Its Approach to Traffic Crashes
One of the most substantive traffic safety bills passed by the City Council Thursday was Intro 171 -- “Cooper’s Law” -- which allows the Taxi and Limousine Commission to suspend or revoke hack licenses of cab drivers who cause critical injury or death as a result of breaking traffic laws. The effectiveness of the law, however, depends on NYPD, which often does not ticket drivers involved in serious crashes.
May 30, 2014
NYPD Ticketing Cyclists in Prospect Park and Central Park
As dangerous drivers continue to injure and kill with impunity, NYPD is targeting cyclists in parks.
May 22, 2014
What If NYPD Did a Month of Consistent Enforcement Instead of a 2-Day Blitz?
NYPD launched a 48-hour crackdown on speeding drivers last night, following a "blitz" a week ago that focused on failure to yield and cell phone violations. A ticketing event always gets media attention -- that's the point -- but are short bursts of high-profile traffic enforcement better than elevated rates of consistent enforcement that become an unremarkable fact of life?
May 20, 2014
NYPD Transpo Chief Breaks Down Street Safety Basics for Local Press
At a press conference this morning unveiling a street safety redesign at 96th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side, the first three questions from reporters were all about what the police are doing to deter jaywalking. So it was no surprise when, after a discussion of NYPD's crackdown this week on drivers who text and fail to yield to pedestrians, Juliet Papa of 1010 WINS cut right to the chase for her drive-time audience.
May 13, 2014
Forget Alec Baldwin. How About Some Celebrity Failure-to-Yield Tickets?
Well that was fast. About an hour after Alec Baldwin was arrested after reportedly biking in the wrong direction on Fifth Avenue this morning, the story was all over the place.
May 13, 2014