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Cab Crash Injures Pedestrian in Precinct Where Speeding Is All But Legal
A man standing with his wife and kids on a Midtown sidewalk was hit by a cab driver yesterday in a precinct where speeding is practically unenforced by NYPD.
July 16, 2013
NYPD Issues More Tickets for Sidewalk Riding Than Speeding on Local Streets
NYPD issued more tickets for riding a bike on a sidewalk than for speeding on surface streets last year, according to summons data and court records.
July 9, 2013
NYPD Speed Enforcement Uptick Dwarfed By Bike-Share Area Ticket Blitz
NYPD precincts in Manhattan wrote nearly twice as many tickets to cyclists in the month after the launch of Citi Bike than they issued to speeding motorists in the first five months of 2013, according to data from NYPD and the Daily News. While speed enforcement across the Manhattan and Brooklyn bike-share service area has increased this year, citations issued to cyclists outnumber speeding tickets by a wide margin.
July 2, 2013
NYPD Shoot Fish in a Barrel
Doug Gordon of Brooklyn Spoke fame reports that NYPD sent a battalion of bike enforcers out to the intersection of Chrystie Street and Rivington Street on the Lower East Side this morning. This is a T-intersection where no motorized traffic conflicts with the path of northbound cyclists. If you're biking north on Chrystie, it makes a lot of sense to treat a red light here as a "yield to pedestrians and cyclists" sign. That does happen to be against the letter of the law, however, and police were taking full advantage, handing out $190 tickets. (Meanwhile, the maximum fine for drivers caught speeding in Albany's proposed automated enforcement bill is $50.)
June 18, 2013
TA: 88% of Brooklyn Drivers Are Speeding, And Almost None Get Tickets
Transportation Alternatives observed nearly nine in ten Brooklyn motorists breaking the speed limit while compiling data for its new report on dangerous driving [PDF], but enforcement from NYPD remains almost non-existent. In fact, TA says it clocked more drivers speeding in 12 hours than NYPD ticketed in all of 2011. That's why speed cameras are necessary for city streets.
June 17, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Reason Number 6,734,090,855 NYC Needs Speed Cams
Turn up the volume and listen for the sociopathic pacesetter about halfway through this clip. This is southbound Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, recorded with my bike-mounted camera at the intersection with Dean Street at about 9:40 p.m. last night.
June 12, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Watch Drivers on 158th Street Run Reds With Impunity
Drivers going to and from the Henry Hudson Parkway at 158th Street pass a traffic signal at a crosswalk that cyclists and pedestrians use to access the Hudson River Greenway. The light flashes yellow until a crosswalk user requests a signal, at which point it turns red and drivers must stop at the crosswalk.
June 7, 2013
Pile-Up in Jackson Heights Precinct That Barely Enforces Speeding
Clarence came across the scene of a three-vehicle crash in Jackson Heights earlier this afternoon, at 35th Avenue and 81st Street, a.k.a. the "Scrabble" corner.
June 6, 2013
Jumaane Williams: Time to Tame the “East Flatbush Motorist Danger Zone”
City Council Member Jumaane Williams yesterday called on the city to take action to improve traffic safety in East Flatbush, where hundreds of people have been injured and killed by reckless drivers in less than two years.
May 16, 2013
There’s No Doubt: Traffic Enforcement Cameras Save Lives
Gawker dished out some richly-deserved ridicule to Tennessee State Senator Jon Lundberg yesterday, following reports that he is co-sponsoring legislation to outlaw the specific speeding camera that nabbed him doing 60 in a 45 zone last October. Lundberg denied that the incident had any impact on his decision to sponsor in the legislation, and contested the violation to boot.
May 16, 2013