SAFETY LAST: DOT Under Fire to Finish Ninth Street Redesign after Sixth Fatality in 18 Years
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The city is once again under fire for a death on a roadway that it failed to redesign for safety.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycling
Fans to Mets Owner: We Don’t Want to Drive to Citi Field
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New Yorkers who showed up at a "visioning session" on Saturday to discuss the future of the parking lots surrounding Citi Field put cars low on their power rankings.
Road Deaths Surged Alongside Covid — But Who Died, Exactly?
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The surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic can't be completely explained by quarantine-emptied roads that made speeding easy — and new data on who, exactly, was involved in those crashes may lead to more questions than answers.
Locals Have Been Begging for Safer Street Where Trucker Killed Citi Bike Rider
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Four dead cyclists in three years. Enough is enough, say Astoria activists.
BREAKING: Cement Truck Driver Fatally Strikes Woman on Citi Bike in Astoria
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A trucker fatally struck a woman riding a Citi Bike in Astoria on Thursday evening, the fourth cyclist to be killed in the western Queens neighborhood in less than three years, according to officials.
Thursday’s Headlines: The Greatness of E-Bikes Edition
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The New Yorker's shopping writer, Patricia Marx, weighed in this week on the electric bike, which far outsells electric cars right now. Here are the takeaways — plus other news.