Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

TA: NYPD Enforcement Priorities Don’t Match Its Own Street Safety Data

By Stephen Miller | Oct 11, 2013 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Transportation Alternatives released a report [PDF] highlighting the mismatch between what causes fatal and serious crashes, according to NYPD crash reports, and what police choose to prioritize when it comes to traffic enforcement. The report lists some statistics to illustrate the public safety crisis on the city’s streets: One New Yorker suffers a traffic-related injury […]

Informed of Safety Benefits, Most NYC Voters Want Protected Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Sep 30, 2013 | 24 Comments

A poll released by Transportation Alternatives today [PDF] sheds some new light on how NYC voters feel about street redesigns and automated enforcement when the policies are framed in terms of safety benefits. Opinion polls by Marist, Quinnipiac, and the New York Times have consistently shown that New Yorkers support bike lanes by a large margin. […]

Verrazano Bridge Path Advocates Release Map, Ask MTA to Commit to Study

By Stephen Miller | Sep 27, 2013 | 14 Comments

The Harbor Ring Committee, a coalition working to complete the missing link in a route around New York Harbor with a bicycle and pedestrian path across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, has released a map of the bike route, a 50-mile loop across four boroughs and Hudson County, New Jersey. Meanwhile, advocates are trying to get the […]

Mayoral and City Council Candidates Respond to TA Questionnaire

By Stephen Miller | Aug 12, 2013 | 15 Comments

This morning, Transportation Alternatives released the results of surveys it sent out to mayoral and City Council candidates. While council candidates expressed a wide variety of opinions, mayoral candidates primarily hammered home positions most of them have already discussed during the campaign, while revealing a few new details on their transportation and street safety policies. Mayoral candidates […]

At City Hall, Advocates Call on Mayoral Candidates to Tackle Street Safety

By Stephen Miller | Aug 7, 2013 | 4 Comments

In the wake of a string of pedestrian fatalities, more than 100 people gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning at an event organized by Transportation Alternatives to demand that mayoral candidates step up to address street safety. “Every 36 hours, a New Yorker dies in traffic,” TA Executive Director Paul Steely White […]

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