Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

One Year After Taking Effect, State’s Vulnerable User Laws Gathering Dust

By Brad Aaron | Oct 13, 2011 | 9 Comments

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the adoption of Hayley and Diego’s Law, which established the charge of “careless driving” in New York State and gave police and prosecutors a new tool to hold motorists who injure pedestrians and cyclists accountable. Unfortunately, says Transportation Alternatives, over the past 12 months the law has gone largely […]

CrashStat Upgrade Provides Interactive, Up-To-Date Street Safety Data

By Noah Kazis | Oct 12, 2011 | 8 Comments

Transportation Alternatives launched an updated version of its CrashStat website today, providing a wealth of new data about street safety in New York City and where pedestrians and cyclists are most at risk. The upgrade adds four years of geo-coded data about traffic injuries and fatalities, a smoother interface, and a wealth of interactive features. […]

Doctors’ Note Says Complete Streets Are Vital to New York’s Health

By Brad Aaron | Sep 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Transportation Alternatives and the New York Chapter of the American Association of Family Physicians today released a letter to Mayor Bloomberg, signed by 140 medical professionals from a broad spectrum of specialties, praising the city’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure as essential to the health of New Yorkers. It’s a solid counterweight to the hysteria surrounding […]

To Close the Gender Gap, Separate Cyclists From Cars

By Noah Kazis | Jul 13, 2011 | 15 Comments

The gender gap in American cycling is a thorny and persistent issue, and New York City performs relatively poorly on the measure. The percentage of female bike commuters has wavered between 20 and 25 percent of the total over the last two decades, but with a marked rise in the most recent years. One of […]

Here They Are: The Best and Worst City Transit Scenes

By Brad Aaron | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives have chosen the winners for their best and worst of New York City Transit photo contest. The top “Good Transit Scene” was “Break of Day ” by Sabrina Porter, while John Wehmeyer took the prize for best “Bad Transit Scene” with “”Reassuring? Not so much!” Porter and Wehmeyer will […]

NYPD Starting to Roll Out Traffic Safety Data Online

By Brad Aaron | Jun 24, 2011 | 23 Comments

Traffic crash data, long a closely guarded secret of the NYPD, is now slowly being released online. Pursuant to the Saving Lives Through Better Information Act, which took effect Wednesday, the department will begin posting monthly updates on summonses and crashes, differentiated by mode of travel and contributing factors and broken down by precinct and […]

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