Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

CB 5 Closes in on Requesting Complete Streets Study for 5th and 6th Avenues

By Stephen Miller | Dec 2, 2013 | 39 Comments

The campaign for a more bike- and pedestrian-friendly design on crowded Fifth and Sixth Avenues has crossed its first major milestone, with Community Board 5’s transportation committee advancing a resolution asking DOT for a complete streets study. The resolution, which passed the committee last Monday in a unanimous vote, is set to be taken up by the […]

TA Outlines a Traffic Enforcement Strategy as NYPD Feels the Heat

By Stephen Miller | Nov 27, 2013 | 3 Comments

Following up on its report highlighting NYPD’s lack of meaningful traffic enforcement and a street safety forum featuring former police commissioner Bill Bratton, Transportation Alternatives released a report yesterday [PDF] outlining case studies of effective traffic enforcement. The report gives Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his next police commissioner a broad strategy to help achieve de Blasio’s […]

Bringing “Broken Windows” to Street Safety: Bratton Talks Traffic at Forum

By Stephen Miller | Nov 19, 2013 | 24 Comments

At a Transportation Alternatives forum this morning on reforming the agency’s approach to traffic enforcement, former NYPD commissioner (and current contender for his old job) Bill Bratton said street safety deserves more attention from the police. The former chief was followed by a panel discussion featuring one of the creators of the “broken windows” theory of […]

At City Council Hearing, Impassioned Appeals for Lower Speed Limits

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2013 | 21 Comments

City Council reps and members of the public spoke unanimously today in support of a bill to lower speed limits to a life-saving 20 miles per hour in neighborhoods citywide. But if the council adopts the measure, it will do so over the objection of DOT, which said the proposal would create conflicts with state […]

Lentol: DOT Will Finalize Design for Pulaski Protected Bike Lane This Year

By Brad Aaron | Oct 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

DOT is drawing up plans for a dedicated bike lane on the Pulaski Bridge, according to the office of Assembly Member Joe Lentol, and should have a final design ready before the end of the year The current layout of this Queens-Brooklyn link squeezes pedestrians and cyclists onto a narrow shared path, while motorists speed along on […]

NYPD Charges 0.7 Percent of Drivers Who Injure and Kill With Careless Driving

By Brad Aaron | Oct 21, 2013 | 12 Comments

Three years after Albany established the offense of careless driving, NYPD continues to apply the law in only a tiny fraction of crashes that result in the death or injury of pedestrians and cyclists. There were 152 pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the city in 2012, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, and […]

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