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Council Member Lappin Calls for Citywide Street Safety Office

By Noah Kazis | Feb 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

Jessica Lappin, the sponsor of new street safety legislation. Image: NY Real Estate Law Blog. In order to create a more tightly integrated public policy on safer streets, Council Member Jessica Lappin introduced legislation yesterday to create a new Office of Road Safety within the Department of Transportation. Lappin imagines the office creating a citywide […]

NYC Agencies Team Up on Guidelines for an Active City

By Mike Lydon | Jan 28, 2010 | 6 Comments

City officials, architects, planners, and public health advocates crammed into the Center for Architecture last night for the unveiling of New York City’s Active Design Guidelines. Heralded as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between four city departments — Health, Transportation, Design and Construction, and City Planning — the effort underscores that New Yorkers, as much as we […]

Confirmed: New Yorkers Reap Health Benefits From Walking and Biking

By Ben Fried | Dec 3, 2009 | 11 Comments

Graphic: NYC Department of Health The NYC Department of Health announced the results of a citywide survey today [PDF] assessing the health benefits of regular walking and biking. Based on telephone interviews with more than 10,000 New Yorkers, the health department reveals that people who incorporate walking and biking into their daily routine are significantly […]

Memo to DOH Commish: Don’t Be Afraid to Bike, or Push for Safer Biking

By Ben Fried | Jun 19, 2009 | 4 Comments

To promote biking and walking, new health commish Tom Farley could send DOH representatives to CB meetings about street safety improvements. Photo: Tulane University. For two days running, the Daily News has reported that recently appointed Health Commissioner Tom Farley feels, let’s say, hesitant to ride his bike in Manhattan. Coming on the heels of […]

DOH Report on Child Deaths Offers No Solutions to Biggest Problem: Traffic

By Ben Fried | Jun 17, 2009 | 4 Comments

"Non-Transport Accidents" includes burns from fire and scalding liquids, falls, and several other causes of injury. "Transportation Accidents" is mainly comprised of kids on foot killed by autos. Chart: NYC Department of Health. Yesterday the Department of Health released its yearly report on child fatalities [PDF], which focuses on deaths due to injury. This year’s […]

A Citywide Prescription for Livable Streets

By Ben Fried | Aug 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

"Streets to Live By" marshals data from several cities to make the case for investing in livable streets in New York. Today Transportation Alternatives released "Streets to Live By" [PDF], the report previewed last week in the Observer. It seeks to define what makes a street livable and to synthesize a broad range of data, […]

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