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WEBSep 13, 2024 · ‘A Very Dangerous Job’: Dozens of NYC School Crossing Guards Injured by Drivers Since 2012, Records Show. As thousands of guards returned to street corners across the city last week for the reopening of public schools, records obtained by Streetsblog reveal the dangers that guards face on the job.
Revel Scooters Quietly Creates New Manhattan Service Area, Plus …
WEBMar 26, 2020 · The company is also offering free memberships to health care workers during the crisis, just as Citi Bike is doing, too. Revel's announcement focused on its contributions to the emergency service workers, but the expansion into Manhattan is …
Third Ave. 'Complete Street' Adds Wide Bike Lane, But Still Keeps …
WEBDec 8, 2023 · The city’s redesign of Third Avenue adds a nice, wide protected bike path, but with its frequently blocked bus lane, the overhaul of nearly 40 blocks from Midtown to the Upper East Side doesn't really earn its "complete street" name.
Julianne Cuba - Streetsblog New York City
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at @julcuba. Email […]
and How You Can, Too - Streetsblog New York City
WEBJan 3, 2022 · With that ammo, I filed an Article 78 lawsuit — named after a provision in the state’s Freedom of Information Law that enables judges to compel government entities that wrongfully withhold information. We were assigned an October 2021 court date, which we adjourned for November. Then, just before our appearance, I got an email with a zipped file from the NYC Law Department.
Your Unanswered Questions on the Interborough Express, Answered
WEBJan 24, 2023 · It's full speed ahead on the Interborough Express, Gov. Hochul and the MTA's planned project to provide a new transit connection between Brooklyn to Queens.The transit project — which will use an existing right of way between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights that runs through Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Maspeth, is currently only used by freight rail — is slated to be part of the ...
Audit: DOT Cameras Miss Millions of Speeding Drivers
WEBJan 22, 2024 · The Lander audit says the number is around 320,000 incidents in the first half of 2023. The good news is that Lander's audit confirmed that speed camera "work to reduce speeding and crashes." Both the number of tickets issued and the number of crashes drop dramatically at locations with speed cameras, Lander's team found.
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
The Space We Give to Passenger Cars Only
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · New York’s passenger-car-only expressways are a relic of our status as the wealthiest state in the earliest days of the automobile, when many of these “recreational” roads were erected. Our earliest parkways — the Bronx River, Hutchinson River, Saw Mill River, and (the original) Cross County — predate even Robert Moses.
THE COMPROMISE: New Open Streets Group Seeks 'Linear Park' …
WEBMay 3, 2021 · The linear park petition is itself a compromise with drivers, who, a new Streetsblog analysis shows, have unfettered access to 67 percent of the public roadway space in Jackson Heights, while pedestrians have about 33 percent.Some drivers say the open street removes too much space from their hegemony over the roads, but the same Streetsblog analysis found that when the open street is in ...