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Crash Mapper provides greater flexibility to query and visualize crash data than the city's Vision Zero View tool.

Map the Dangerous Streets in Your Neighborhood With This New Tool

By David Meyer | Mar 8, 2017 | No Comments

The street safety advocates at Hell's Kitchen-based Chekpeds have relaunched NYC Crash Mapper, a tool lets you drill down on traffic crash data in your neighborhood, community board, or City Council district. The new Crash Mapper interface is a step up from City Hall's Vision Zero View tool, which launched in 2014, in some important ways.

Ubers and yellows appear to be banished under the NYPD order. Photo: Max Pixel

Advocates Call on Carl Heastie to Fix Statewide Uber Bill

By David Meyer | Mar 2, 2017 | No Comments

In letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Insurance Committee chair Kevin Cahill, leaders of Transportation Alternatives and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign warn that Governor Cuomo's Uber bill could lead to illegal ride-hail traffic in the five boroughs with no way to assess the problem and rein it in, if necessary.

Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz is confident he and his colleagues can restore the $65 million Cuomo wants to cut from the MTA. Photo: David Meyer

65 Albany Legislators Are Fighting Cuomo’s $65 Million Transit Funding Cut

By David Meyer | Feb 27, 2017 | 2 Comments

Governor Cuomo's proposed budget slashes $65 million from the state's general fund contribution to the MTA, breaking a promise he made five years ago. Now a bipartisan group of 65 Albany legislators are calling for those funds to be restored in the final budget.

The de Blasio administration released its annual Vision Zero self-assessment this morning. Photo: Mayor's Office

Taking Stock of Vision Zero Three Years In

By David Meyer | Feb 23, 2017 | 7 Comments

The de Blasio administration has reduced fatalities every year -- the first time in more than a decade the city has had a streak of three years with declining traffic deaths. But the pace of improvement leveled off in 2016, highlighting how much work remains to reach the Vision Zero target.

Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez thinks City Hall can afford to provide discount transit fares to 800,000 low-income New Yorkers. Photo: David Meyer

Council Members Press City Hall for Half-Priced MetroCards for Low-Income New Yorkers

By David Meyer | Feb 13, 2017 | 3 Comments

It would cost the city $212 million annually to provide half-priced fares to the 800,000 New Yorkers who live below the federal poverty line. De Blasio has refused to include the funding in his $86 billion budget, prompting City Council members to accuse him of "passing the buck" to Albany.

Will the three men in a room join New Yorkers who support slowing drivers near schools?

Most New Yorkers Who Own Cars Support Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2017 | 17 Comments

Right now, Albany limits NYC to 140 speed enforcement cameras for all 6,000 miles of surface streets in the city. A broad spectrum of New York City voters approve of expanding the program. The question is whether Albany Democrats Andrew Cuomo, Jeff Klein, and Carl Heastie will take action to save lives.

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