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Boondoggle: State And Feds Are Dumping Yet Another Giant …
WEBAug 15, 2024 · More highways in the Bronx? No thonx! Gov. Hochul plans to use federal money to build a mile-long, four-lane highway alongside the Cross Bronx Expressway — selling it as a "community connector" despite its environmental negatives for neighborhoods long plagued by the deleterious effect of putting cars over people.
The Outlaw Biker’s Illustrated Guide to the Triboro Bridge
WEBJun 6, 2019 · Steve Scofield. As biking has grown, the Triboro/RFK has become a vital cycling path linking northwest Queens, the Bronx and upper Manhattan. With the opening in 2015 of the Randalls Island Connector, which connects Randalls Island to the Bronx, many more cyclists now use the span — even for commuting. …
City Adds to ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Areas of Broadway
WEBOct 25, 2021 · The six blocks — which add to pedestrian-friendly areas of Times, Herald, Madison and Union squares installed during the Bloomberg administration — are a far cry from the vision of safe-streets activists, who have advocated for a car-free Broadway from Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side to Houston Street on the Lower East Side.
First Look: The DOT Finally Has Plans For Its Queensboro Bridge ...
WEBApr 8, 2024 · The streets on both ends of the Queensboro Bridge will be remade into safer, people-first spaces as part of the long-awaited reopening of the span's south outer roadway that will finally give cyclists and pedestrians a separate path to walk and ride on.
OPINION: Curbing the Scourge of Illegal Street Racing
WEBSep 17, 2020 · New Yorkers across the city have been filing complaints about the huge surge of illegal racing, which puts motorists, pedestrians and cyclists in peril and keeps locals awake at all hours of the night with revving engines, screeching tires and squealing brakes.. The data bear this out. A total of 1,057 complaints were made to 311 about drag racing between March 20 and Sept. 10, 2020 – nearly ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
In New York, Business Groups — Not the City - Streetsblog New …
WEBNov 29, 2021 · A quiet revolution in public space management is spreading throughout New York City — and it is not being undertaken by the city bureaucrats who are paid to oversee our streetscape, but by Business Improvement Districts, private entities that raise money from commercial interests and also raise questions about the future of urban space.
NYPD Gives a Few Details of New ‘No Report’ Crash Policy
WEBApr 3, 2020 · There were 165,707 non-injury-causing crashes in New York City last year, roughly 454 per day. If the same pattern from Staten Island holds for the entire city, that number will not drop, but NYPD statistics will give the impression that the number of crashes has dropped to roughly 62,000, or 169 per day.
ON THE BIAS: NYPD’s ‘Walking While Black’ Ticketing Continues
WEB12:03 AM EDT on May 22, 2024. The NYPD’s well-documented history of disproportionately ticketing pedestrians of color for allegedly crossing against a traffic signal — known to some as "jaywalking" — continued in 2023, the latest data show. Over the full calendar year, NYPD officers wrote 467 summonses for violating Section 4-04 of the ...