Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Speed limits

SHAME! State Lawmakers Leave Town Without Passing Key Safety Bills

By Fiifi Frimpong | Jun 12, 2021 | No Comments

Safe streets advocates feel abandoned after state lawmakers left Albany on Friday without passing a slate of bills aimed to save children, protect cyclists and make streets more livable.

Familiy For Safe Streets rally outside City Hall Park. Photo: Fiifi Frimpong

Lawmakers Continue To Stall on Bills To Keep Pedestrians, Cyclists Safe

By Fiifi Frimpong | Jun 10, 2021 | No Comments

Top state lawmakers have struck out on a package of pending street safety bills, and today is the last chance for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to grab a bat and get in the game.

Slow the F Down: City Seeks to Tame Drivers on Some Neighborhood Speedways

By Streetsblog | May 10, 2021 | No Comments

Mayor de Blasio just announced life-saving speed limit reductions on some of the city's remaining neighborhood speedways, part of what the administration is calling "Streets Week!" (yes, with an exclamation point).

An illegally parked Eyewitness News truck idles in an illegal spot in the Bronx on April 24, 2020. Photo: Eve Kessler

BUSTED! ‘Eyewitness News’ Driver Breaks Law in ABC7-TV Truck

By Eve Kessler | Jun 15, 2020 | No Comments

My nuisance-neighbor newsman uses company billboard to block hydrant, pollute air in the Bronx. So what does corporate say?

Vigilantism on Staten Island. Photo: Vince DiMiceli

Staten Islanders Who Oppose Speed Cameras Have A Logical Reason: They Speed!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 28, 2020 | No Comments

What a surprise: The people most enraged by speed cameras on Staten Island happen to be the ones who wish they could keep speeding past them without paying tickets.

These kinds of signs may soon be the rule in Hoboken. Photo: Stephen Kelly/PA via Guardian.

Hoboken Mayor Leads Region with 20 MPH Speed Limit

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 27, 2020 | No Comments

Hoboken leads, New York City bleeds.