Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DOT

Mayor Eric Adams is all-in on free buses, but needs to get more red paint on the ground.

DOT: We Don’t Have the Money to Carry Out Our Own ‘Master Plan’

By Dave Colon | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

Three times in the 96 page document, the agency included the same graphic to emphasize (and re-emphasize) that it lacks the resources to meet the benchmark established by the Council when it passed the Streets Master Plan law in 2019.

Still a speedway: Atlantic Avenue in 2018 (top) and in 2021. State Sen. Julia Salazar hopes to change that.

OPINION: City DOT Must Do More To Fix Atlantic Avenue

By Julia Salazar | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

Being a pedestrian or cyclist rather than a driver should not mean you are more likely to lose your life.

The proposal would bring safety to an area of great carnage. Graphic: Street Plans

Unwilling to Wait for DOT, Neighborhood Residents Pitch Design for ‘Apolline’s Garden’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 1, 2021 | No Comments

A tribute to a 3-month-old baby who was killed by a reckless driver appears to be moving forward.

The Meatpacking Business Improvement District turned Little West 12th Street between Washington and Greenwich streets into a true open street. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Streetfilms: ‘Talking Public Spaces’ in the Meatpacking District

By Eve Kessler | Dec 1, 2021 | No Comments

See it: Gorgeous plazas with lush plantings in movable containers. Refurbished 19th-century factory buildings on quaint cobblestone streets. People sipping drinks under red cloth umbrellas — and hardly a car to be seen. Are we really in the Manhattan? Yes.

What happens when Business Improvement Districts take the lead. Graphic courtesy of Hudson Square BID

In New York, Business Groups — Not the City — Lead on People-Centered Streets

By Eve Kessler | Nov 29, 2021 | No Comments

Commercial interests have pushed pedestrianization in the city's core shopping areas — because it improves their bottom lines. That can be good for residents but it has downsides, too.

A makeshift memorial on 35th Street for Xing Long Lin. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Other Victim in Fatal Crash Sues 'Reckless' Driver Whom DA Katz Cleared

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 28, 2021 | No Comments

The civil suit portrays a driver so negligent that activists once again cannot believe that the Queens District Attorney did not also charg her criminally for the death of Xing Long Lin.

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