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Will Other NYC DAs Join Cy Vance in Getting Behind Vision Zero?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 25, 2014 | No Comments

All five New York City district attorneys were invited to Monday’s City Council Vision Zero hearing, according to the office of transportation committee chair Ydanis Rodriguez. Yet Manhattan DA Cy Vance was the only one who participated. Due to time constraints, Vance Chief Assistant DA Karen Friedman Agnifilo was not able to read all of her […]

Families of Traffic Violence Victims: Implement Vision Zero Now

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2014 | 2 Comments

Nearly 100 people gathered yesterday afternoon on the steps of City Hall to launch Families for Safe Streets, a group of New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to traffic violence. Families for Safe Streets are demanding an accelerated timetable for the Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic fatalities within a decade. Speakers yesterday included […]

Council Overrides Bloomberg Veto of NYPD Hit-and-Run Transparency Bill

By Brad Aaron | Feb 4, 2014 | 2 Comments

The City Council today voted to override a number of vetoes handed down by former Mayor Bloomberg. According to the Staten Island Advance, among the bills passed was Intro 1055, which requires NYPD to release information on hit-and-run crashes and investigations. The bill mandates that NYPD report quarterly on the total number of “critical injury” hit-and-run […]

Meet Your New Transportation and Land Use Committee Chairs

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2014 | 6 Comments

It’s official: Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is chair of the transportation committee, and Council Member David Greenfield will head up the powerful land use committee. While Rodriguez’s appointment has been greeted mostly with optimism by street safety advocates, Greenfield’s ascendance raises flags about whether the city will be able to get much-needed parking reforms through […]

Is Ydanis Rodriguez the Right Transpo Chair for Vision Zero?

By Ben Fried | Jan 16, 2014 | 14 Comments

Politicker is reporting that Upper Manhattan Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez has the inside track on securing the transportation committee chairmanship, which multiple sources have corroborated with Streetsblog. While the final decision won’t be announced until next week, sources say that council leadership will finalize the choice sooner than that, perhaps as early as today. The […]

With Mark-Viverito as Speaker, Who Will Chair Transportation Committee?

By Stephen Miller | Jan 9, 2014 | 14 Comments

Almost immediately after Melissa Mark-Viverito was elected city council speaker yesterday, she formed the council’s rules committee, installing her progressive caucus co-leader Brad Lander as its chair. Lander, like Mark-Viverito a livable streets stalwart who has also championed overhauling many of the council’s procedures, is now in a prime position to help pick who will […]

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