David Meyer
Born and raised in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, David fell in love with journalism as a kid accompanying his reporter dad on stories while school was out. A reporter at Streetsblog from 2015 to 2019, David returned as Streetsblog Deputy Editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post. A graduate of Montgomery Blair High School and the University of Maryland, he lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Recent Posts
The Disappearing Sixth Avenue Protected Bike Lane
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What could be a safe, direct connection to the Midtown core and Central Park instead deposits cyclists into five lanes of chaotic car traffic.
Pedestrians and Cyclists Get Room to Breathe on South Street
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The pace is slow, but the city is making progress on the East River greenway in Lower Manhattan.
First Things First: Staten Island Needs Bikeable Streets
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Borough President James Oddo says he wants bike-share for his constituents, but in his time in elected office, he's done little to make bicycling conditions safer on Staten Island.
Reinvent Albany: NYPD Needs to Open Up Its Traffic Summons Data
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NYPD's TrafficStat site merely maps data that was already available and lacks data about where police are enforcing traffic laws, which the agency has refused to release for years.
Families for Safe Streets and DOT Cut the Ribbon on Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza
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The plaza, on the block of Wyckoff Avenue between Myrtle and Gates, is the centerpiece of a major safety project that will reduce conflicts between drivers and pedestrians at an intersection where three people were killed by motorists since 2009.
Beyond Car Ownership: How Finland Set the Stage for Mobility-as-Service
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This October, the Finnish company MaaS Global launched Whim, an app that serves as a portal to a wide array of transportation services. Helsinki residents who sign up for Whim pay a flat fee for unlimited access to transit and get points that can be spent on taxi rides or car rentals.
Vanterpool: Trump Can’t Take Away Our Ability to Make Transit Better
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If you want better transit, now is not the time to get discouraged. At a Riders Alliance panel in Soho last night, Tri-State Transportation Campaign Executive Director Veronica Vanterpool delivered a message to transit advocates -- all politics is local, and city residents still have the power to win important transit victories.
The 111th Street Safety Project Has Changed, But Queens CB 4 Has Not
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If DOT is going to implement a safer design of 111th Street in Corona, it won't be thanks to the local community board.
City Hall Puts NYPD’s TrafficStat Crash-Mapping Tool Online
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The city will make "TrafficStat," NYPD's tool for mapping and analyzing traffic collision data, available online to the public. It's an improvement but lacks one very important type of information -- data about where police are enforcing traffic laws.
What Will It Take to Bring Bike-Share to Every Borough?
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City Council members want bike-share to expand into their neighborhoods in a five-borough network. Officials at DOT and bike-share operator Motivate share that vision, but they said at a hearing today that it won't come cheap.
The Beginnings of the Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane
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DOT is striping and painting the new two-way protected bike lane between the Manhattan Bridge and Houston Street.
Families of Crash Victims Pledge Action to Save Lives
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New Yorkers who lost loved ones to traffic violence gathered at City Hall Park yesterday to call on Mayor de Blasio and elected officials in Albany to do more to prevent traffic deaths on NYC streets.