Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about TSTC

Tri-State Maps NYC Pedestrian Deaths By Age and Gender

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2013 | 6 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s latest “Most Dangerous Roads for Walking” report [PDF] is another urgent reminder that roads and streets designed for maintaining auto capacity are not safe for people who travel outside a car. Drawing on federal data from 2009 through 2011, the report ranks the region’s most dangerous roads in terms of total […]

Will Cuomo Spend Bike-Ped Funds on Bike-Ped Projects?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

With MAP-21 taking effect today, city and state transportation advocates are calling on Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Transportation to devote all of its federal bike-ped funds to walking and cycling infrastructure. The coalition of just over 100 groups is also asking that the state make available millions of dollars, allocated as part […]

How Does Your State Stack Up on Prioritizing Transit and Street Safety?

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 17, 2012 | No Comments

How’s your state doing on bike and pedestrian investment? Transit? Bridge repair? Congress just reauthorized the national law that funnels tens of billions of dollars each year to state departments of transportation, but tracking how these agencies spend all their federal money is notoriously difficult. A lack of uniformity in the way states report spending has […]

Memo to Daily News: Local NYC Streets Could Also Use State DOT Attention

By Brad Aaron | May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

After two crashes in six years that caused 13 fatalities and an outcry from an indignant press corps suddenly obsessed with traffic safety, the New York State Department of Transportation has turned its attention to the Bronx River Parkway. The concrete barriers planned for the parkway seem designed to facilitate speeding, but the state DOT […]

TSTC Alerts Drivers to Costs of Transit-Free Tappan Zee

By Brad Aaron | Feb 21, 2012 | 3 Comments

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is looking to enlist car commuters in the fight for transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Two radio spots sponsored by Tri-State are airing on 1010 WINS this week, in advance of draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) hearings scheduled for February 28 and March 1. Here’s the copy: It’s now or never […]

Albany 2012: Transit Funds, Traffic Cams Top Transportation Agenda

By Noah Kazis | Feb 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

Many of Albany’s biggest transportation issues this year — the bloated and transit-free Tappan Zee, the unfunded MTA capital plan — will be decided by Governor Cuomo. But transportation advocates also have a slate of bills they hope to see make it through the legislature. Last year, the complete streets bill passed after a few […]

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