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Cyclists Blindsided By City’s Erasure of Father Capodanno Bike Lane
For the second time in 12 months, the Bloomberg administration will remove a link in the bicycle network after receiving complaints from bike lane opponents. The Staten Island Advance reports that the bike lane on Father Capodanno Boulevard will not be striped again after the street is repaved. The news comes two months after the Advance published an editorial urging the city to remove the lane, and about a year after the city erased a 14-block stretch of the Bedford Avenue bike lane in response to opposition from local Hasidic leaders.
November 18, 2010
Nadler Revives Fight Against Trucker Giveaway on Verrazano
The one-way tolls on the Verrazano Bridge have been a major cause of truck traffic in New York City since they were instituted in 1986. Though numerous efforts to restore two-way tolls have failed over the last two and a half decades, technological progress may finally bring victory within reach. Congressman Jerry Nadler thinks that the MTA's moves toward cashless tolling could make two-way tolls politically feasible, and he's trying to pass the federal legislation necessary to allow them.
October 15, 2010
S.I. Advance: Capodanno Plagued By Speeding, So Get Rid of the Bike Lane
Earlier this week the Downtown Express injected some common sense into the public discussion about the value of bike lanes. With protected lanes on Ninth and Eighth Avenue now a valued safety improvement after facing some pushback at first, the paper predicted that initial complaints about the new lanes on the East Side will subside once people get used to them:
September 24, 2010
Parks Dept Allows Catering Hall to Fence Off Staten Island Greenway
The New York City Parks Department has come up with a striking new method to demean pedestrians and cyclists and disrupt the public right-of-way.
June 30, 2010
“Unsuspecting Drivers” Caught Zooming Past Staten Island School
Here's something you'd like to see more of from the NYPD: Cops cracking down on speeders near a school zone. Reports the Staten Island Advance:
September 21, 2009
Electeds, Local Media Wage War on Staten Island Cyclists
The recent motorist assault on a Staten Island cyclist is a symptom of anti-bike bias routinely displayed by local politicians and the Staten Island Advance, as chronicled on a web site encouraging action for safe streets.
August 25, 2009
Two Staten Island Pedestrians Killed in Four Days; One Driver Charged
Two pedestrians were killed by drivers in Staten Island in separate incidents last week. Despite indications that both deaths were caused by careless driving -- one motorist struck an elderly man while making a left turn, the other jumped a curb and slammed into a man waiting for a bus -- only the driver involved in the latter crash faces charges, according to reports.
March 2, 2009
A Transit Miracle on 34th Street
NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan's 34th Street into a river-to-river "transitway."
April 17, 2008
S.I. Ped Killings Cause Some to Ask, What’s an “Accident?”
Rev. Lyle Guttu, a fixture at Staten Island's Wagner College since 1972, was struck by an SUV in the West Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island last Saturday. He died Sunday evening.
December 21, 2007
Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing
"Walking is Transportation" blogger Dan Icolari has extensive coverage of last night's seventh and final Traffic Mitigation Commission hearing on Staten Island. He reports "a notable unanimity" among Staten Island's elected representatives. "Even South
Shore Republican Councilman Vincent Ignizio -- a reliable foe of
government whose salary is paid by government -- said that despite great
skepticism, he was determined to keep an open mind."
November 6, 2007