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People still speed. A lot. But less. At least that's the story. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Speed Camera Update: More People Being Caught (But Fewer During the Day)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 14, 2022 | No Comments

Overall tickets are up about 67 percent thanks to those overnight and weekend hours, but they're down about 15 percent in the 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours, evidence that drivers do indeed stop speeding after getting one or two automated tickets.

Imagine if you will, this faded crosswalk that cars stop in in front of Grand Army Plaza was turned into a pedestrian plaza. Photo: Dave Colon

DOT Kicks Off Outreach on New Grand Army Plaza Fix: ‘Dream Big’

By Dave Colon | Nov 13, 2022 | No Comments

The journey of a thousand meetings begins with a single tabling. But the DOT is definitely talking about serious changes.

Council Member Rita Joseph wants more speed bumps. But they take years. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 11, 2022 | No Comments

A Brooklyn City Council member has a simple question for the Department of Transportation: Why does it take years and years (and sometimes years and years and years) to put in a simple speed bump?

Cyclists in Central Park. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Central Park Conservancy Studying Ways to Make Park Loop Safer

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 10, 2022 | No Comments

The stewards of Central Park are reviving a long-overdue study to make the greensward safer for pedestrians and cyclists — as calls to redesign the “Wild West” roadways have intensified on the heels of yet another near-deadly collision.

Eighth Avenue and 48th Street in Sunset Park, still a two-way street almost a year after the city said it would be turned into a one-way street. Photo: Dave Colon

Days After Two Girls Were Critically Injured, DOT Hits Reset on its Sunset Park Safety Fix

By Dave Colon | Nov 9, 2022 | No Comments

Back to the drawing board. The Department of Transportation has scrapped a redesign of two dangerous avenues in Brooklyn that the agency proposed fixing in 2021.

The goal of the redesign is to narrow the wide one-way street at the southern end of 10th Avenue south of the Whitney Museum, so that it is more inviting and safer. Photo: Google

DOT to Beautify Another Meatpacking District Street

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 9, 2022 | No Comments

The current overly wide 10th Avenue terminus will be transformed with shared-street markings, tables, chairs, a bike lane and new pedestrian zones and crosswalks to get walkers from the area around the Whitney Museum to the Hudson River Greenway.

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