Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

The $290,000 Speeding Ticket

By Noah Kazis | Jan 8, 2010 | 13 Comments

The record-setting ticket was given to the driver of a red Ferrari Testarossa. Photo: SeeMonterey via Flickr. It would be a red Ferrari, wouldn’t it? The Swiss courts just handed down the world’s most expensive speeding ticket: 299,000 Swiss francs, or just under $290,000. According to the BBC, the motorist was barreling through a small […]

NYPD on Fatal Delancey Street Crash: “Looks Like It Was Just an Accident”

By Ben Fried | Jan 7, 2010 | 15 Comments

Photo: CS Muncy/Flickr via Gothamist. The police department confirmed this morning that no criminal charges have been filed against the bus driver who struck and killed a woman riding a bike on Delancey Street Tuesday afternoon. (The police have not released the identity of the victim, since the family hasn’t been notified yet.) "I don’t […]

Remembering Cyclists and Pedestrians Lost in 2009

By Brad Aaron | Jan 4, 2010 | 16 Comments

Cyclists gather Sunday at the Ghost Bike installation for Julian Miller, killed in Brooklyn last September. Photo: denali2001/Flickr Just a few hours into the new year, New York recorded its first pedestrian fatality of 2010. At around 6:45 p.m. on Friday, January 1, an unidentified 50-year-old man was struck and killed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The […]

Victims, Electeds: Time for Action Against Driving While Unlicensed

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2009 | 6 Comments

Spurred by the recent hit-and-run deaths of three pedestrians, Transportation Alternatives led a protest on Sunday calling for new measures to keep unlicensed drivers from getting behind the wheel. On the steps of City Hall, advocates were joined by David Sheppard, fiance of Sonya Powell, and City Council Member Larry Seabrook. According to the DMV, […]

Sunday: Rally at City Hall for Traffic Justice

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2009 | No Comments

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, three people were killed in New York City by drivers with suspended licenses. These deaths are entirely preventable. If not for a legal system that cavalierly lets reckless drivers get back behind the wheel, Sonya Powell and Lillian and Peter Sabados might still be alive. Steps like impounding the vehicles of […]

Council Members: If Only There Was Some Way to Deter Reckless Driving

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

Yesterday the City Council held a hearing on street safety for older New Yorkers. The hearing came while the deaths of Lillian and Peter Sabados, an elderly Staten Island couple run down by Allmir Lekperic on Thanksgiving eve, are still fresh in people’s minds. But when it comes to keeping drivers like Lekperic from harming […]

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