The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
It started with a simple premise: What happened to the 10 drivers who killed pedestrians in January 2025? We waited a year to make sure all these cases had gone through the full NYPD investigation process, and what we found was appalling: Three drivers weren’t charged at all, and the rest received punishment so low that a monthly cable bill costs more.
What’s a life worth in NYC? About $50 — if it ends under the wheels of a car. Check out Nolan Hicks’s story below.
Plus today’s headlines and coverage of Mayor Mamdani’s latest effort to fight pro-car revanchism.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Cops got this crash wrong — and we have the video.
Two new stories about the city’s slow installation of speed humps. Plus other news.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
