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The NYPD has finally admitted that it has based its enforcement strategy not on data, as it originally said, but on what cranks say at community meetings.
Meanwhile, there’s no evidence it’s making roadways safer.
Also, Albany correspondent Amy Sohn was all over Lobby Day for street safety.
“Too many New Yorkers know someone who never made it home. I am tired of learning the names of New Yorkers only after they were killed in preventable crashes.”
A first full fleet inventory led to 70 fewer vehicles, fewer take-home cars and new accountability for crashes. Experts say New York’s deficit-ridden cities should audit their own.
“Too many New Yorkers know someone who never made it home. I am tired of learning the names of New Yorkers only after they were killed in preventable crashes.”
The deaths and injuries “cannot continue” on Brooklyn’s Third Avenue, Mayor Mamdani said.
DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn declined to make any firm commitments on Tuesday when pressed on the program’s start date.
“The federal government is using subterfuge to waste the judge’s and MTA attorneys’ time and all of our money,” one attorney and advocate fumed.
A Staten Island judge ruled against the city’s Victory Boulevard bus lane project. Plus other news.
A first full fleet inventory led to 70 fewer vehicles, fewer take-home cars and new accountability for crashes. Experts say New York’s deficit-ridden cities should audit their own.
DOT should revoke parking placards issued to non-profits that rack up excessive speed-camera or red-light violations.
