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The Case for Center-Running Bus Lanes on Woodhaven Boulevard
The proposal to improve bus service on Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens is the most exciting street redesign in the works in New York City right now, with the potential to break new ground for bus riders and dramatically improve safety. With as many as five lanes in each direction, Woodhaven Boulevard has plenty of space that can be devoted to exclusive transitways and concrete pedestrian safety measures.
July 10, 2014
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
Slow Zones, Safer Arterials Win Over CBs in Manhattan and Queens
At its annual outdoor meeting in Diversity Plaza last night, Queens Community Board 3 voted to support two traffic safety projects: a new neighborhood Slow Zone in Jackson Heights and nine additional pedestrian refuge islands on Northern Boulevard, one of the borough's most dangerous arterial streets.
June 20, 2014
Unlicensed Driver Faces Wrist Slap After Killing Queens Cyclist William Faison
A motorist who was reportedly driving with a suspended license will likely get off with a slap on the wrist after she killed a cyclist in Queens last week.
May 27, 2014
CB 6 Joins Council Members Calling for a Safer Queens Boulevard
In a unanimous vote last week, Queens Community Board 6 passed a resolution [PDF] asking DOT for a complete redesign of Queens Boulevard to improve street safety. The board is the first along the infamous "Boulevard of Death" to request the study, joining a united front of City Council members.
May 19, 2014
Queens Blvd Gets “Slow Zone” Label, But Speed Limit Remains the Same
Yesterday, DOT announced that Queens Boulevard, one of the city's deadliest streets, would be part of its arterial slow zone initiative that reduces speed limits from 30 to 25 mph. But unlike other streets in the program, Queens Boulevard would have its limit dropped from 35 to 30 mph. Trouble is, the speed limit on Queens Boulevard is already 30 mph, and it's been that way since 2001.
May 2, 2014
Imagining a New Atlantic Avenue for de Blasio’s New York
Atlantic Avenue is one of New York’s most prominent streets, and in most respects, it is completely broken.
May 1, 2014
2 Dead in 3 Days: NYPD Must Slow Drivers to Stem Atlantic Avenue Carnage
Update: WNYC reports that the pedestrian killed at Atlantic Avenue and 85th Street has been identified as William Guevara-Delgado, 26, of Woodhaven.
April 28, 2014
Pedestrian Islands Coming to Deadly Northern Boulevard Intersection
The intersection of Northern Boulevard and 61st Street in Woodside, where an unlicensed truck driver making a left turn through a crosswalk killed 8-year-old Noshat Nahian on his way to school last December, is set for some pedestrian safety fixes after months of work by elected officials and street safety advocates.
April 2, 2014
Rockaway Students Want DOT to Use Extra Asphalt for Walking and Biking
Rockaway Freeway, a multi-lane divided road beneath the A train on the Rockaway peninsula, is hardly friendly territory for walking or biking. A group of teens interning with the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance is looking to change that. Their goal: Gather 10,000 signatures on a petition asking DOT to convert some under-used road space, created as part of a traffic-calming project years ago, into a safe place for walking and biking.
April 1, 2014