Bike Injuries Still Up for the Year — And Southern Brooklyn Cyclists are Disproportionately Hurt
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The plurality of cyclist injuries between March 16 and 22 were still in the same Southern Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Andrew Gounardes
Gounardes Seeks State Rating System to Reflect the Danger of Cars — To People Outside Them
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A new state database would rate vehicles on a scale of one to five stars based on safety criteria and crash records.
SPEED CAMERAS WORK, PART II: Drivers Causing Fewer Collisions
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Crashes are down 10 percent, possibly became drivers are starting to change their behavior now that there are more cameras, and they're operating eight more hours per day.
SPEED CAMERAS WORK: City Writes More Tickets — But Drivers are Getting the Message
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Thousands more reckless drivers are getting caught speeding near schools thanks to the additional speed cameras that started going up in school zones this summer, data shows.
How Many Bad Drivers Are There in New York State? DMV Doesn’t Know — And Doesn’t Seem to Care!
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DMV "does not have a way to know which records in our possession might answer the questions you have asked," the agency's Freedom of Information Law and Subpoena Unit told Streetsblog.
Drivers Would Learn About Sharing the Road, Thanks to Senate Bill
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The state Department of Motor Vehicles will have to do a better job of instructing would-be drivers that they're not the only vehicles on the road, and that their fellow motorists aren't the only thing to watch out for, thanks to a long-stalled Senate bill that finally passed on Tuesday.