Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DOT

When DOT engineers get together, they design unsafe roads, as Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton points out.

Opinion: DOT’s Traffic Engineering Division is Hostile to Street Safety

By Mark Gorton | Oct 25, 2021 | No Comments

Why do engineers at the city Department of Transportation design bad roads? Because their only metric is car throughput. That has to change.

The memorial to Apolline Mong-Guillemin. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

DOT Wants Meeting with State DMV Head to Get Killer Drivers Off the Road

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 25, 2021 | No Comments

Hank Gutman wants a sit-down with DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder (who? Exactly.)

Only rigid barricades keep cars out. But the DOT wants to try something else. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

DOT Design for Permanent 34th Avenue Open Street ‘Fails,’ Say Linear Park Supporters

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 25, 2021 | No Comments

This gold standard needs some polish.

Friday’s Headlines: ‘Propaganda of the Day’ Edition

By Eve Kessler | Oct 22, 2021 | No Comments

Glossing over the real issues, the NYPD tries a soft touch on race. Plus, all the other news.

Garbage lane? Sometimes the new Brooklyn Bridge bike path is full of trash. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Drivers, Pedestrians are Already Trashing the Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 22, 2021 | No Comments

The newly opened Brooklyn Bridge bike path is being defiled with garbage that's either cascading down from the pedestrian path or tossed by drivers over the short fence from the car lanes. But DOT is on it!

DOT Punts Long-Delayed Fifth Avenue Project to Next Mayor

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 20, 2021 | No Comments

A busway and a protected bike lane are on hold until after the holidays. Is the city taking its cues from the New York Post?

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