Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Strange Twist in Protracted Ordeal of Arrested Queens Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Sep 8, 2009 | 6 Comments

Queens resident Gerald Beekman (an alias we’re using at his request), arrested in May after twice being nearly run down by an irate driver in Long Island City, had his first court appearance last month. The case was held over until October, as District Attorney Richard A. Brown’s office did not yet have a supporting […]

DA Candidate Snyder Releases Traffic Safety Plan

By Brad Aaron | Aug 26, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Leslie Crocker Snyder campaign has announced a detailed transportation safety plank, rounding out a field of Manhattan district attorney candidates committed to advancements in traffic justice. Leslie Crocker Snyder Like Richard Aborn and Cy Vance, Snyder says she would: focus on prevention and deterrence through stepped-up enforcement and graduated penalties for gateway offenses like […]

DA Candidate Cy Vance Outlines Traffic Safety Platform

By Brad Aaron | Aug 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Cy Vance has become the second contender for Manhattan district attorney to release a campaign plank on traffic crime. Cy Vance, Jr. Photo: Brad Aaron Vance’s proposals, detailed on his campaign web site, are impressively broad in scope. On the legislative front, Vance says he would advocate for graduated penalties for repeat traffic offenders and […]

When Dodging Death Becomes a Fact of Life

By Brad Aaron | Aug 19, 2009 | 38 Comments

Lisa Sladkus sent in this photo of yesterday’s mayhem at the 72nd Street subway station. For the second time (that we know of) in less than a week, a yellow cab driver has wreaked havoc on Manhattan streets, terrorizing pedestrians and leaving a trail of destruction. Miraculously, unlike Akim Saiful Alam, the unidentified driver in […]

Victims Arrested, Assailants Walk Free: Dark Days for Traffic Justice

By Brad Aaron | Aug 18, 2009 | 6 Comments

Few regular readers of this blog need to be convinced that pedestrians and cyclists of all stripes — i.e. the vast majority of New Yorkers — are completely vulnerable to serious injury and death at the hands of reckless motorists. Though collisions, near misses and confrontations occur with such frequency that even fatalities often go […]

Road Rage Victim’s Reputation Smeared Until Proven Innocent

By Ben Fried | Aug 17, 2009 | 8 Comments

Ray Bengen, pictured on the sidewalk below his assailant, is paying a steep price for defending himself while riding in the Ninth Avenue bike lane. Following Brad’s post last week about one pedestrian’s encounter with an enraged driver and the NYPD, I caught up with Ray Bengen, another New Yorker charged with criminal mischief after […]

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