Court Holds NYC Liable for Injuries on Dangerous Streets
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The decision says that when local governments are aware that a street design leads to dangerous driving behaviors, they have an obligation to act.
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Hero Mom Fined By Police for Vigilante Traffic Calming
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She wanted her kids to be safe in the front yard, so she held the sign over her head and stood in the middle the street. Police slapped her with a jaywalking ticket.
De Blasio, Vacca, Trottenberg Rebuff Opponents of East Tremont Safety Plan
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A leader of the Throggs Neck Merchants Association tried to thwart DOT’s safety plan for East Tremont Avenue at a town hall in the Bronx last night and was firmly rebuffed by Mayor de Blasio, Council Member Jimmy Vacca, and Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. After the exchange, Raisa Jimenez, whose son Giovianni Nin was killed by a hit-and-run driver on East Tremont earlier […]
Tonight: Tell Mayor de Blasio the Bronx Supports a Safer Tremont Avenue
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Mayor de Blasio will hold a town hall in Throggs Neck tonight, and Transportation Alternatives organizers are expecting a significant turnout from a small but vocal group of area residents and businesses who oppose a DOT road diet for East Tremont Avenue. East Tremont Avenue is where a hit-and-run driver killed 26-year-old Giovanni Nin as he was biking […]
Eyes on the Street: Bigger Sidewalk, Shorter Crossing at Riverside and 116th
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A tipster sent this photo of the sidewalk expansion underway at the corner of Riverside Drive and W. 116th Street in Manhattan. (It’s one of the elements in a DOT safety plan for Riverside that survived after the agency watered down the project at the behest of Community Board 9.) Once the concrete is poured, the distance to walk […]
3 Graphs That Explain Why 20 MPH Should Be the Limit on City Streets
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Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by a motorist. ProPublica’s Lena Groeger used data from the AAA Safety Foundation to chart the plummeting […]