Kevin Duggan
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Poll Finds Majority of New Yorkers Favor Trading Parking Spots for Safer Streets
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Most New Yorkers want the city to make streets safer for kids to bike and walk even if it makes driving hard or removes parking, according to a new poll.
Overruled! City Finishes Centre Street Bike Lane Despite Objections of Driving Court Workers
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Officials are finally enforcing protected bike lanes the Department of Transportation began painting last year outside the courthouses on Centre Street in Manhattan — moving ahead with the changes despite opposition from the state court administration.
‘Death Alley’: Driver Kills Woman on Atlantic Ave. Speedway in Brooklyn Heights
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Police arrested a Brooklyn driver they say fatally struck a 31-year-old woman on Atlantic Avenue on Sunday night, throwing her body halfway down the block on the notoriously dangerous Brooklyn speedway.
DOT Narrows Dangerous Staten Island Corridor With More Parking, Unprotected Bike Lane
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City officials want to curb rampant speeding and traffic violence on one of Staten Island's most dangerous roads with cutting-edge urban planning technology: adding more parking and painting an unprotected bike lane.
Toss Your ‘Ghost Car’ Complaints Into the 311 Abyss, Says Deputy Mayor Banks
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NYPD already fails to issue tickets in response to 99 percent of 311 complaints about paper plate fraud.
Teen Cyclist Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Queens; 11th to Die this Year
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A hit-and-run driver fatally struck a teenage cyclist in Queens on Monday night — severing the electric Citi Bike virtually in half — the latest horrifying death in a year with the highest number of killed bike riders at the start of any year in the modern record.
Stats Show That a Narrower BQE is Safer, Yet City is Considering Widening the Highway
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Collisions on the Queens-bound side of the cantilever have dropped 65 percent compared to 2019, according to a DOT analysis obtained by Streetsblog.
Cyclist Deaths Soared in the First Three Months of 2023, On Pace for Worst Year in History
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"We're alarmed by the increase in bike riders killed in traffic violence so far this year," said Transportation Alternatives.
Wider BQE Could Be ‘Intrusion’ on Brooklyn Bridge Park, Ex-Transportation Leaders Warn
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The city says it is only considering whether to widen the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the BQE between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street into three, 12-foot lanes in each direction, with additional shoulders — a configuration that would require the roadway to be widened from roughly 34 feet to 56.
What About the Rest? MTA Still Has No Schedule to Reopen Most Bathrooms
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The MTA has hired subway station maintenance staff back to above pre-Covid levels, but the agency still has no schedule to reopen the vast majority of the bathrooms that were shuttered during the pandemic.
Chinatown Pol, Business Leaders Want Cars Back on Park Row — And May Prevail
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The NYPD set up flashing screens on Friday alerting residents that Park Row — which has been inaccessible to thru car traffic since the massive security escalation in Lower Manhattan after 9/11 — would once again become a shortcut for drivers, though by later in the day, City Hall said the cops had made a mistake.
MTA Boss Casts Doubt on All-Door Bus Boarding ‘Hypothesis’ Despite Proven Speed Boost
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The MTA’s leader on Wednesday dismissed the well-established benefits of all-door bus boarding as a mere "hypothesis."