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NYPD Should Open Data on All Traffic Summonses, Not Just on Truck Routes

By Brad Aaron | Oct 2, 2015 | 3 Comments

Legislation introduced by City Council members this week would require NYPD to publish data on crashes and summonses along NYC truck routes. The bill is intended to improve safety on truck routes, but a better approach would be to have NYPD post all traffic summons data. Intro 919, introduced by council members Margaret Chin, Jimmy Van Bramer, and transportation chair Ydanis […]

NYC’s New Budget Fails to Fund More Low-Cost Vision Zero Street Redesigns

By Stephen Miller | Jul 7, 2015 | 11 Comments

It’s July, which means the city’s new fiscal year 2016 budget is in effect. This spring, the de Blasio administration touted early funding for street repaving and reconstruction of four arterial streets under the “Vision Zero Great Streets” program. But the final budget the mayor’s office negotiated with the City Council fails to beef up the city’s […]

Team de Blasio Makes Its Case for a One-Year “Uber Cap”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 30, 2015 | 55 Comments

The de Blasio administration made its case for temporarily restricting the growth of licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber at a City Council hearing this morning. With congestion in Manhattan getting worse, City Hall’s plan is to cap the number of new for-hire vehicles on city streets for the next year while it studies the impact of […]

Council Calls on de Blasio to Double “Great Streets” Redesign Funds

By Brad Aaron | Jun 10, 2015 | 3 Comments

The City Council wants Mayor de Blasio to double funding for DOT capital projects to overhaul the city’s most dangerous streets and save more lives, faster. At a council budget hearing last week, transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez called for additional funds in the executive budget for the “Great Streets” program. As of now the mayor’s budget proposes $250 million […]

City Council Poised to Require Side Guards on 10,000 Trucks by 2024

By Stephen Miller | May 26, 2015 | 6 Comments

The City Council transportation committee unanimously passed a bill this afternoon that would require side guards, which keep pedestrians and cyclists from being swept beneath a truck’s rear wheels, on approximately 10,000 New York City trucks by 2024. The legislation, likely to pass the full council tomorrow, mandates the add-ons not just for city-owned trucks but also for private trash haulers. The […]

Participatory Budgeting Will Fund 21 Livable Streets Projects

By Stephen Miller | May 20, 2015 | 3 Comments

The votes are in, and 21 livable streets projects got enough support to be funded in this year’s round of participatory budgeting. All told, 124 projects made the cut and will receive City Council funds [PDF]. In dollar terms, the streets projects will account for $5.1 million of the $32.5 million distributed by council members. During the participatory budgeting process, […]

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