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Advocates to Albany: Let NYC Enforce the Speed Limit at Every School

By David Meyer | Feb 8, 2016 | 107 Comments

Advocates from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets will head to Albany tomorrow calling on legislators to expand NYC’s automated speed enforcement program. They want speed cameras by each of the city’s 2,500-plus schools, operational at all times. Speeding is a leading cause of crashes resulting in injury or death, yet state law limits New York […]

MTA to Boost Frequency of Q70 to LaGuardia

By David Meyer | Jan 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

The MTA announced this morning that it plans to increase service on the Q70 Limited bus to LaGuardia Airport and hopes to roll out Select Bus Service on the route later this year. Riders Alliance Executive Director John Raskin applauded the news as “a great step toward implementing a real airport shuttle from the subway” […]

TA: Quicker Action on Vision Zero Can Save Thousands of Lives

By David Meyer | Jan 20, 2016 | 7 Comments

The de Blasio administration is making progress on street safety, but not fast enough to achieve the mayor’s Vision Zero target of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024, Transportation Alternatives says in a new report. At the current rate of improvement, it will take nearly 40 years to reach that goal. Advocates from TA, Families for Safe Streets, […]

Looking to Join Your Community Board? TA Makes It Easy to Apply

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2016 | 7 Comments

As Streetsblog readers know, too many community boards care more about on-street parking than street safety or housing affordability, even in districts where the majority of residents don’t own cars. DOT rarely implements safety measures over board objections (which Council Member Ritchie Torres would like to change). While a small number of boards are asking DOT to be more bold with street […]

TA Report: NYC District Attorneys Are Failing to Lead on Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | Dec 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

New York City district attorneys are not using the power of their offices to deter acts of traffic violence by holding reckless drivers accountable for harming innocent people, according to a new report from Transportation Alternatives. TA researchers worked with representatives from all five DA’s offices for “Justice Denied: New York City’s District Attorneys Plead Out […]

Council Bills May Convolute City Policy on Cyclist Safety and Derelict Bikes

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2015 | 12 Comments

The City Council transportation committee will take up a slate of bills tomorrow, including one that would create a “bicycle safety task force” that is opposed by Transportation Alternatives. Intro 219, introduced in 2014 at the request of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, would establish a panel to “develop recommendations on how make New York […]

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