Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Organizations

On Day of Remembrance, Mayor Pledges to Take Vision Zero “a Lot Farther”

By Ben Fried | Nov 16, 2015 | 50 Comments

Hundreds of people walked from City Hall to the United Nations yesterday to remember victims of traffic violence and call for action to prevent more loss of life on the streets. Addressing the crowd before the march, Mayor de Blasio said his administration’s effort to eliminate traffic deaths “has just started” and pledged to “take […]

De Blasio to Stand With Traffic Violence Victims Sunday, and So Can You

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2015 | 1 Comment

Sunday is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. In New York City, Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets will mark the occasion with a memorial walk from City Hall to the United Nations. NYC has seen an unusual string of pedestrian fatalities concentrated in the last two weeks, but the carnage is steady year-round. City drivers […]

Help TA and Families for Safe Streets Convince the AP to Drop “Accident”

By Brad Aaron | Nov 4, 2015 | 5 Comments

The word “accident” is so ingrained in media practice that reporters use it to describe basically any motor vehicle crash scenario, even when a driver is impaired or accused of using a car as a weapon. This is harmful because it disregards the fact that most collisions can be traced to preventable causes, including reckless driving […]

Let This RPA Vid Explain Why We Need More Rail Tubes Under the Hudson

By Brad Aaron | Oct 29, 2015 | No Comments

The Regional Plan Association produced a nice explainer video on why the region needs to build more rail capacity under the Hudson River, the risks facing the existing train tubes, and what will happen if one of them has to be taken offline for repairs before another tunnel gets built. The situation with the tunnels has heightened urgency because New […]

Two of These Five DA Candidates Answered TA Questions on Traffic Safety

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2015 | 4 Comments

New York City district attorneys are integral to street safety. Ideally, in addition to ensuring that victims see justice, district attorneys can deter dangerous driving by holding people accountable for committing acts of traffic violence. But even after the advent of Vision Zero, traffic crime and its victims are not a priority for city DAs. Unless […]

Residents Call for Better Crosstown Bike Routes on the Upper East Side

By Eric Jankiewicz | Oct 22, 2015 | 14 Comments

About 30 Upper East Side residents hit the streets last Saturday to evaluate potential routes for crosstown bike lanes in their neighborhood. For the “street scan” organized by Transportation Alternatives and Bike New York, the volunteers split up evenly between people on foot and people on bikes. Both groups surveyed three possible east-west routes to document current conditions for biking. Currently, the Upper East […]

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