Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Video still of Thursday’s crash scene: WNBC

Truckers Keep Killing and Maiming With Illegal Oversized Rigs. NYPD Keeps Blaming Victims.

By Brad Aaron | Jul 20, 2018 | 19 Comments

A trucker legally prohibited from driving on city streets struck a man on Amsterdam Avenue and left him “likely to die.” True to form, NYPD issued no tickets and said the victim was at fault.

The density of private waste collection routes today (left), and in a hypothetical zoned system (right). Image: DSNY

There’s a Big Fight Brewing in the City Council Over Trash Carting Reforms

By David Meyer | Jul 17, 2018 | 21 Comments

The council votes tomorrow on a bill to distribute garbage truck traffic more fairly. A more contentious battle over the private trash carting industry looms ahead.

This is what we are seeing way too often in New York City. Photo: News 12

Mark Gjonaj, Who Takes Money From Sanitation Salvage, Goes on TV to Blame the Company’s Victims for Their Own Deaths

By Brad Aaron | Jul 6, 2018 | 6 Comments

If Mayor de Blasio wants to reduce the carnage caused by Sanitation Salvage and other private waste haulers, he can't give in to industry shills like Gjonaj.

The state DOT plan calls for highway ramps on Edgewater Road abutting the Bronx River and flying over part of Concrete Plant Park.

While Young People Desperately Fight a Cuomo Highway Project in Hunts Point, NYC Electeds Do Nothing

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2018 | 3 Comments

The NYS DOT plan will exacerbate air pollution in a neighborhood where asthma rates are already sky high.

Queens Boulevard Needs Better Barriers to Protect Cyclists From Idiots Like This Guy

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2018 | 22 Comments

DOT's design for the Queens Boulevard capital project calls for placing the bike lane on a mountable curb, which would do little to prevent incidents like this.

How Fire Departments Stopped Worrying and Embraced Safer Street Design

By Angie Schmitt | May 29, 2018 | No Comments

As Portland built out bike lanes and pedestrian safety measures, fears about slower response times did not materialize.

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