Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

Labor and Advocacy Groups Call for Action on Unsafe Garbage Haulers

By David Meyer | Jun 16, 2016 | 2 Comments

A new report from Transform Don’t Trash NYC, a coalition of labor and advocacy groups including Teamsters Local 813 and Transportation Alternatives, is calling on the city to get unsafe sanitation trucks off NYC streets. The job of collecting garbage in the city is shared by the Department of Sanitation, which handles waste from residential and governmental buildings, and […]

Drivers Are Killing People, and the 19th Precinct Is Sending Cyclists to Court

By Brad Aaron | Jun 16, 2016 | 29 Comments

Police activity on 79th & 1st–a blitz of enforcement on cyclists https://t.co/KSOdmtUHvp pic.twitter.com/1HO3zaGUwm — Our Town (@OurTownNYC) June 1, 2016 The 19th Precinct likes to boast about local officers aggressively ticketing people for riding bikes on sidewalks. A data analysis by Transportation Alternatives shows the precinct also issues far more criminal court summonses for sidewalk riding than […]

NYC Students Rally for Speed Cameras at Every School. Where Is Jeff Klein?

By David Meyer | Jun 9, 2016 | No Comments

With time running out on the legislative session in Albany, NYC students and parents gathered at City Hall this morning to call on the state legislature to expand the city’s life-saving speed camera program. Pending legislation in Albany would allow New York City to effectively enforce the speed limit at all of its schools, but it currently lacks support […]

When Will Western Queens Assembly Members Sign on to Move NY?

By David Meyer | Jun 6, 2016 | 19 Comments

With the clock winding down on the legislative session in Albany, Queens activists are making the case for the Move NY toll reform package. Volunteers with the Riders Alliance and Transportation Alternatives rallied at the foot of the Triborough Bridge Saturday to call for a tolling system that works better for drivers and transit riders than the city’s […]

Majority of NYC DAs Agree: All City Schools Should Have Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | May 12, 2016 | 15 Comments

Three New York City district attorneys have endorsed Albany legislation that would allow New York City to install speed enforcement cameras outside every school. Cy Vance, Ken Thompson, and Richard Brown, the top prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, respectively, sent separate letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Assembly Transportation Chair David Gantt, and Manhattan […]

NYC Students Tell Albany: Speed Cameras at #EverySchool Will Save Lives

By Brad Aaron | May 10, 2016 | 426 Comments

Students from MS 51 in Brooklyn joined family and friends of people killed by New York City drivers in Albany today to ask state lawmakers to allow the city to install speed cameras outside every school. Organized by Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets, about 140 New Yorkers met with legislators to drum up support […]

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