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
Levin to DOT: Deadly McGuinness Blvd Needs Traffic Calming, Speed Cams
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A week after Nicole Detweiler was killed while walking on McGuinness Boulevard — at least the third person to be struck and killed on the street in the last five years — Council Member Steve Levin sent a letter to incoming Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg asking her to prioritize traffic calming and and speed cameras […]
TLC Fact Book Excludes Facts About Crashes or Driver Safety Training
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The Taxi and Limousine Commission’s 2014 Taxi Fact Book [PDF], released at the end of the Bloomberg administration, includes facts and figures on almost everything taxi- or livery-related, from trip length to passenger demographics. But there’s one important thing the report fails to mention: driver safety. Cab crashes account for some significant share of traffic […]
Eyes on the Street: How Snow Makes the Case for Traffic Calming
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Streetsblog asked and you delivered. Earlier we sent out a call for photos of snowy streets where drivers or plows had cleared a path while leaving much of the remaining the asphalt untouched. It’s an easy way to visualize the opportunities for permanent sidewalk extensions like like neckdowns and bulb-outs — but you have to […]
Xiaoci Hu, 75, Killed in Sunset Park — NYC’s First Pedestrian Fatality of 2014
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Just after 6:45 a.m. yesterday, Xiaoci Hu, 75, of Sunset Park was walking south along the east side of Seventh Avenue when he was struck and killed in a two-car crash while crossing 65th Street. The intersection is wide, with multiple lanes in each direction, and is a busy route for drivers coming to and from […]
Bratton: NYPD Will Devote “Intensive Focus” to Traffic Violence
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At a press conference this afternoon for the ceremonial swearing in of Bill Bratton as police commissioner, Mayor Bill de Blasio took the microphone to express his administration’s commitment to its Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities within ten years. Bratton followed up with more remarks about how the department will prioritize street safety, saying NYPD […]
Trottenberg Meets Parents of Traffic Violence Victims at Inauguration
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A group of street safety advocates braved the cold yesterday outside Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inauguration and received an impromptu visit from Polly Trottenberg, de Blasio’s pick for transportation commissioner. A total of about 15 people, organized by Make Queens Safer and Make Brooklyn Safer, gathered on Broadway outside City Hall yesterday, holding signs and handing […]
How to Measure the Economic Effect of Livable Streets
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When a street redesign to prioritize walking, biking, or transit is introduced, the headlines are predictable: A handful of business owners scream bloody murder. Anecdotes from grumpy merchants tend to dominate the news coverage, but what’s the real economic impact of projects like Select Bus Service, pedestrian plazas, road diets and protected bike lanes? How […]
Unlicensed Truck Driver Kills Noshat Nahian, 8, in Northern Blvd Crosswalk
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This morning just before 8:00 a.m., Noshat Nahian, age 8, was on his way from his home on 32nd Avenue to school at PS 152 when a tractor-trailer driver turning left onto Northern Boulevard struck Nahian in the crosswalk along 61st Street. He was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. The driver of the truck, Mauricio Osorio-Palaminos, 51, of Newark, New […]
Will Bill Bratton Make an Anti-Speeding PSA Like This?
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A new anti-speeding PSA from DC police chief Cathy Lanier could be a good model for once and future NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton. Speeding is the leading cause of fatal crashes in New York City, and DC provides a model — starting with a video like this one. Lanier, standing in front of a bank of screens […]
Next Year, Peds and Cyclists Won’t Have to Fight for Scraps on Pulaski Bridge
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By this time next year, people walking and biking across the Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens won’t have to share a single narrow path. With a new, two-way protected bike lane spanning the bridge, cyclists will have a safe route and pedestrians will have the existing 8.5-foot wide pathway exclusively for walking. No more […]
Council Transpo Committee Passes NYPD Hit-and-Run Transparency Bill
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The City Council transportation committee passed a bill today that would require NYPD to issue quarterly reports on hit-and-run crashes and investigations. Originally, Intro 1055 would have had NYPD report to the council every two years on hit-and-runs resulting in serious injury or death. The language of the bill was tightened after sponsor Leroy Comrie and other committee members […]
DOT Plans Road Diet and Bikeway Upgrade on Deadly Section of Kent Avenue
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Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 1’s transportation committee unanimously recommended the board support a DOT project [PDF] to calm traffic on a deadly stretch of Kent Avenue between Clymer Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The project also upgrades a link in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway to a two-way protected bike lane. Last March, hit-and-run driver Julio Acevedo, […]