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Traffic Injuries Plummet on Allen and Pike After Bike-Ped Overhaul
Evidence continues to mount that NYCDOT's street reclamation projects are making New York a safer city for walking and biking. The latest statistics come from Allen and Pike Streets, where DOT installed four pedestrian plazas and the city's first center-median protected bikeway late last summer. The project followed a long campaign by local community groups to make the pedestrian malls on Allen and Pike more welcoming public spaces.
June 15, 2010
Cyclist, Pedestrian Injured in Two East Side Crashes
A pedestrian and a cyclist have been hurt in separate Manhattan crashes since last night.
May 18, 2010
Cab Driver Strikes and Kills Manhattan CB 3 Member on Essex Street
From news site DNAInfo:
April 28, 2010
LES Bike-Ped Improvements Sail Through Manhattan CB 3
Two weeks after NYCDOT revealed a package of pedestrian and cyclist improvements for the Lower East Side, the full membership of Community Board 3 voted overwhelmingly to approve the plans.
March 24, 2010
Upper East Side Workshop Kicks Off New Street Safety Campaign
"You can't control what you can't measure," the saying goes. So to get a better grip on street safety on Manhattan's East Side, Transportation Alternatives started by collecting better data about local traffic collisions and injuries. Last night, a group of Upper East Siders used that information to begin imagining what a safer neighborhood might look like.
March 17, 2010
Safer Bowery, LES Bike Lanes Clear Manhattan CB3 Committee
NYCDOT unveiled a slate of pedestrian and bicycle improvements to the transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 3 last night. Presenters asked for votes on two street safety projects: the construction of a planted center median on the Bowery between Canal and Division streets, and the addition of new curbside bike routes to improve connections to the Williamsburg Bridge.
March 11, 2010
Car-Sharing Instead of More Parking? LES Co-op Says: “Fantastic”
"Not enough parking" is a pretty familiar refrain from residents, community boards, and elected officials across the entire city. According to the New York Times, Seward Park's co-op board has avoided that route and settled on a solution that can actually reduce the amount of space dedicated to the automobile: car-sharing.
February 1, 2010
WNYC: East Side Plans Feature Separate Lanes for Bikes, But Not Buses
WNYC's Andrea Bernstein is reporting that plans for Bus Rapid Transit on First and Second Avenues include protected bike lanes but not physically separated bus lanes. Bernstein says the MTA would not allow the bus lanes to be separated from traffic:
January 14, 2010
Witness: Bus Driver Backed Over Cyclist in Fatal Crash
According to an eyewitness account on NY1, the bus driver who killed a cyclist on Delancey Street yesterday afternoon was driving in reverse and did not respond to verbal warnings prior to the fatal crash:
January 6, 2010
Bus Driver Hits and Kills Cyclist on Delancey Street
WABC is reporting that a woman riding a bike was struck and killed by a school bus driver at the intersection of Delancey and Ludlow at around 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. Streetsblog has a request in with NYPD for more information. From ABC's aerial picture of the crash scene, it appears as though the fatal collision occurred on the east-bound side of Delancey.
January 5, 2010