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Advocates: Ethical Standards Demand Zero Tolerance for Traffic Deaths

By Noah Kazis | Jun 8, 2011 | 19 Comments

Traffic deaths need to be treated as an ethical imperative to save lives, said representatives from Transportation Alternatives, the Drum Major Institute, and the medical community today at the public release of the new report, “Vision Zero” [PDF]. “It is simply unacceptable for people to die in traffic,” said T.A. Executive Director Paul Steely White, […]

City Transpo, Health Advocates: One Traffic Death Is One Too Many

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Drum Major Institute and Transportation Alternatives today called on the city to step up efforts to reduce vehicular deaths, and implored the Bloomberg administration and the New York City Council to change the widespread “culture of acceptance” that leads many New Yorkers to view thousands of preventable, life-altering injuries as an inevitable byproduct of […]

TSTC to Cuomo: Complete Streets Save Lives

By Noah Kazis | May 31, 2011 | 5 Comments

Despite streets that remain far too dangerous for walking — 3,485 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes during the past decade in the New York metro area alone — efforts to pass a complete streets bill are still stalled in the state legislature. The legislation, which would require all street projects that receive state and […]

Submit Your Pics of the Best and Worst of NYC’s Transit System

By Noah Kazis | May 16, 2011 | 5 Comments

We often describe the importance of transit in numbers, like the fact that 54 percent of New York City households don’t even own a car. But even the most convincing stats can get a little dry. To help capture what the subways and buses mean to a city where the transit system is the closest […]

Deborah Glick Revives Push for Life-Saving Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2011 | 10 Comments

Legislation allowing the city to curb deadly driving through the use of speed enforcement cameras will soon resurface in Albany. A bill introduced last year called for a pilot program of 40 cameras, to be installed at crash-prone city intersections. Photographs would be taken of license plates (not of drivers), and tickets issued to vehicle […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Kate Slevin, Tri-State Transportation Campaign

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the third installment. Read the first and second parts. In a phone interview yesterday afternoon, Kate Slevin, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, shared her first impressions of the city’s revised sustainability plan… On the diminished prominence of transportation compared to […]

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