Today’s Headlines

  • Private Trash Hauler Kills Cyclist Hoyt Jacobs in Long Island City (AMNY, NYT, Post)
  • Are de Blasio and Trottenberg Doing Enough to Prevent Cyclist Deaths? (Gothamist)
  • DMV Finally Schedules Safety Hearing Two Years After Police Struck and Killed Ryo Oyamada (Gothamist)
  • Advocates Press City to Dust Off Plans for Southern Queens Greenway (DNA)
  • Mapping Ocean Parkway’s Terrible Record of Traffic Violence (DNA)
  • Beefing Up NYC Freight Rail Will Run Into Political Resistance in Queens (QChron)
  • After NYPD “Re-engineering,” Staten Island Has No Dedicated Collision Investigation Team (Advance)
  • Motorists Get Signs They Wanted, Telling Them to Adhere to Safe Speeds on Surface Streets (QChron)
  • NYC’s 140 Speed Cams Have Nothing on the Vast Surveillance System Monitoring Straphangers (Post)
  • Damned Bike Lanes (NYT)

Streetsblog will be offline in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and resume publication tomorrow.