Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

New Push for Albany to Do Something About Deadly Streets

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments

Albany pols must do all the stuff they failed to do last year by not sending any bills from the so-called Crash Victim Rights and Safety Act to then-Gov. Cuomo's desk for signing.

Crashes kill. File photo: Walking LIC Via Twitter

NUMBER CRUNCH: Inside the Deadliest Year in Vision Zero History

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 26, 2022 | No Comments

It was worse than you thought.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has problems with speed cameras.

Speaker Adams Offers Misinformation on Speed Cameras

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments

Concern about speed cameras is popular among drivers, anti-government folk and, apparently, the Council Speaker, too.

Selvena Brooks-Powers is the chair of the Council's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — and has a lot on her plate already.

Meet the Council’s Transportation Committee Chair: Selvena Brooks-Powers

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 20, 2022 | No Comments

Her home district is quite unlike the rest of the city. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

A very rare sighting of an NYPD tow truck. File art.

Ongoing Suspension of Scofflaw Towing Making Roadways Less Safe

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 18, 2022 | No Comments

The city has still not resumed hauling away the cars of tens of thousands of scofflaw drivers who rack up (and then don't pay) multiple infractions for their dangerous driving or also-dangerous selfishness — despite 2021 ending as the bloodiest year for road violence since 2013.

Despite End of Holiday Season, DOT Has No Update on Long-Stalled Fifth Ave. Project

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

New mayor, same old problem. We are nearly two weeks into the New Year and the city still doesn’t have a plan for restarting the long-delayed redesign of Fifth Avenue — a street improvement project announced by former Mayor de Blasio in 2020, delayed and watered-down, but then scheduled to begin “after the holidays” of […]

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