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There’s a Big Fight Brewing in the City Council Over Trash Carting Reforms
The council votes tomorrow on a bill to distribute garbage truck traffic more fairly. A more contentious battle over the private trash carting industry looms ahead.
July 17, 2018
Mark Gjonaj, Who Takes Money From Sanitation Salvage, Goes on TV to Blame the Company’s Victims for Their Own Deaths
If Mayor de Blasio wants to reduce the carnage caused by Sanitation Salvage and other private waste haulers, he can't give in to industry shills like Gjonaj.
July 6, 2018
Queens Boulevard Needs Better Barriers to Protect Cyclists From Idiots Like This Guy
DOT's design for the Queens Boulevard capital project calls for placing the bike lane on a mountable curb, which would do little to prevent incidents like this.
June 8, 2018
How Fire Departments Stopped Worrying and Embraced Safer Street Design
As Portland built out bike lanes and pedestrian safety measures, fears about slower response times did not materialize.
May 29, 2018
Study Links Rise of SUVs to the Pedestrian Safety Crisis
SUVs are designed for death. And they're dominating the U.S. auto market.
May 10, 2018
Reynoso: Business Integrity Commission “Incapable” of Regulating Private Trash Haulers
Council sanitation chair Reynoso and his colleagues want the BIC to revoke the operating license of Sanitation Salvage, which has been involved in two fatalities since November.
May 9, 2018
After 2 Deaths in 6 Months, Council Members Want Sanitation Salvage Trucks Off NYC Streets
The Business Integrity Commission has regulatory power over private waste carters, but has failed to hold Sanitation Salvage accountable for its abhorrent safety record.
May 8, 2018
NYC’s Private Trash Truck Mayhem Goes From Bad to Worse
The number of crashes in the city involving the 20 largest private trash truck operators nearly doubled in the two-year period ending February 28.
April 9, 2018
NYPD Rejects Request for Records on Hit-and-Run Killing of Neftaly Ramirez
As long as police and prosecutors refuse to disclose information about the death of Neftaly Ramirez, the public has no way to know how they determined not to press charges.
March 20, 2018
Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways
@illegal53NYC is doing for illegally oversized trucks what @placardabuse does for placard abuse -- drawing attention to a pervasive and dangerous traffic problem that City Hall and NYPD have not addressed in any meaningful way.
February 22, 2018
