Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about New York State DOT

If Tennessee Can Adopt Livable Street Designs, So Can New York State DOT

By Brad Aaron | Jun 25, 2014 | 11 Comments

States and cities across the country have adopted standards from the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Street Design Guide, a blueprint for safe, multi-modal streets that made its debut last fall. New York City is among those cities that have incorporated NACTO guidelines, and this month Tennessee became the sixth state to do so. But Matthew […]

NYC Bike-Ped Projects Get $21 Million in Federal Funds From State DOT

By Stephen Miller | Jun 12, 2014 | 10 Comments

On Tuesday, Governor Cuomo announced that the state DOT is awarding $21.2 million in federal highway safety funds over three years to nine projects in New York City that all include big safety improvements for biking and walking. Advocates welcomed the news, but still have questions about whether the state is allocating enough money to […]

City Council Gets on Board With Overhauling the Sheridan. Will Cuomo?

By Stephen Miller | Mar 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

After nearly two decades of advocacy and planning to transform the Sheridan Expressway, South Bronx residents and businesses have a plan they agree on. The next step: Governor Cuomo’s State DOT must launch an environmental review to begin implementing the plan. The State Senate included $3 million for the review in its budget proposal [PDF]. […]

Cuomo Announces $67M for Bike/Ped Projects, Including Pulaski Bridge

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2014 | 11 Comments

[Editor’s note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] Via the Tri-State Transportation Campaign: Earlier this week Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $67 million in funding for walking and biking infrastructure statewide, after advocates had pressed the state to follow through on the recently passed complete streets law with […]

Hunts Point to Cuomo: Get Trucks Off Local Bronx Streets

By Stephen Miller | Dec 11, 2013 | 3 Comments

Hunts Point is one of New York City’s largest industrial hubs, generating 15,000 truck trips every day over local streets in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. The result? Pollution and dangerous streets for residents, as well as wasted resources for businesses. Yesterday, the city released a mammoth study of land use and transportation in […]

Eyes on the Street: Ocean Parkway Gets Safety Upgrades, With More to Come

By Stephen Miller | Oct 24, 2013 | 8 Comments

A plan to improve pedestrian safety at a dangerous Brooklyn intersection is seeing the first signs of progress on the ground. In June, Ngozi Agbim, 73, was killed by a turning tractor-trailer truck driver on the north side of the intersection of Church Avenue, Ocean Parkway, and the Prospect Expressway. The location, which had already […]

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