Stephen Miller
In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
Recent Posts
Eyes on the Street: DOT Begins Filling Gap in First Av Bike Lane [Updated]
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The Pope has left town and the United Nations General Assembly is over, meaning it’s time to make First Avenue a better place to bike and walk. The gap in the First Avenue protected bike lane was baked into the initial plans for it, which called only for sharrows between 49th and 59th streets in order to […]
TA, Manhattan Pols Urge DOT to Commit to Fully Redesigning Fifth and Sixth
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Last month DOT announced its intent to add a protected bike lane along 19 blocks of Sixth Avenue. A coalition of advocates, business groups, community board representatives, and elected officials think the city can do better. At a press conference next to the Flatiron Building this morning, they called on DOT to redesign the entire length of Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. In a […]
No Charges or Tickets for Driver Who Ran Red, Killed Woman on Sidewalk
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A driver ran a red light yesterday evening, crashing her SUV into another car, mounting the sidewalk and striking three people at a bus stop in Richmond Hill, Queens. Meena Mahabir, 52, was killed. Her 2-year-old niece was critically injured, and the toddler’s mother was also hospitalized. The driver does not face any charges and has not received any traffic tickets after the crash, NYPD said this […]
Eyes on the Street: A Flower-Protected Chrystie Street Bike Lane
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Chrystie Street: 25 cones, 1 dozen sunflowers. Enjoy your commute. #bikenyc #demandmore pic.twitter.com/nrPzu431oP — Transformation Dept. (@NYC_DOTr) October 7, 2015 Bike commuters on Chrystie Street found a pleasant surprise this morning. The street’s northbound bike lane, a busy connector from the Manhattan Bridge that’s usually a favorite of illegally-parked drivers, had received an upgrade: Someone added orange traffic […]
If Cuomo Wants City Funding for the MTA, He’ll Need to Compromise
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s months-long attempt to squeeze money out of City Hall for the MTA appears to be reaching its end game. Cuomo and his people at the MTA — which, despite what the governor says, is a state entity under his control — have been asking Mayor de Blasio for ever-increasing amounts of money to fill the gap in […]
Eyes on the Street: Children Play Mere Feet From Citi Bikes — The Horror!
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Let’s take a moment to remember the fury of the Upper East Side parents who discovered last month that a bike-share station had begrimed the same block schoolchildren use for midday recess on E. 82nd Street near Second Avenue, next to P.S. 290. Here are the fear-mongering quotes reported by DNAinfo: “I’ve been here 12 years and it’s disgusting,” said […]
Next Up for SBS: 23rd Street in Manhattan, Canarsie to Gravesend in Brooklyn
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Two more enhanced bus routes are entering the project pipeline in NYC, one along a busy Manhattan crosstown street and the other snaking across a transit-hungry stretch of Brooklyn. The Manhattan project will run across 23rd Street. The Brooklyn project would tackle a long route following the B6 and B82 between East New York and Gravesend, which carried a […]
Rodriguez Champions Toll Reform in Broad Vision for NYC Transportation
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Reforming New York’s broken road pricing and parking policies top an extensive list of transportation priorities from City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, which he unveiled this morning in a speech at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation. The most pressing item on Rodriguez’s agenda is the Move New York toll reform proposal, which would […]
Side Guard Pilot Almost Complete — Next Up, the Other 95% of City Trucks
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In February, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a pilot program to add side guards, which prevent people from being dragged beneath the rear wheels of large vehicles, to 240 trucks in the city fleet. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which is managing the rollout, said today that it is two-thirds done with the project, and expects to have […]
Citi Bike Ridership Begins to Climb Out of Its Slump
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Summer sales and ridership numbers show Citi Bike, at last, is on the rebound. The bike-share program grew by leaps and bounds as New Yorkers embraced it immediately after the May 2013 launch, but before long, subscribers grew frustrated with unreliable service caused by buggy software and other operational problems. Sales and ridership slumped. In fiscal year 2015, […]
Francisco Moya’s Hush-Hush 111th Street Meeting Now Open to the Public
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Assembly Member Francisco Moya, who opposes a road diet and protected bike lane on 111th Street in Corona, has decided to let the public know about a town hall meeting he is hosting about the project on Monday — after Streetsblog asked about the lack of public notice. 111th Street, which runs on the western edge of Flushing […]
Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island Connector to Open in “Coming Weeks”
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The Randall’s Island Connector, a greenway link between the South Bronx and Randall’s Island, is almost complete. Bronxites are anticipating a ribbon-cutting any day now from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which is building the project. The new path crosses the Bronx Kill, a narrow waterway separating Randall’s Island from the Bronx. Without it, the only way to bike or walk […]