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Inside the Latest “Distracted Pedestrians” Con

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 31, 2016 | 40 Comments

Hospital records from 2014 showed that distracted walking accounted for 78% of pedestrian injuries throughout the United States. — Daily News, Sunday, March 27, 2016 A report released in 2015 by the Governors Highway Safety Association found an increase in pedestrian fatalities, and cited texting while walking as partly to blame. Nearly two million pedestrian injuries […]

Broadway Ticket Sales Are Through the Roof. Damned Plazas!

By Brad Aaron | Feb 29, 2016 | 21 Comments

In case you missed it, the Broadway theater business is booming. According to the Broadway League, the 2014-2015 season saw the highest attendance in at least 30 years. In 2009-2010, gross ticket sales topped the billion-dollar mark for the first time in history, and have only gone up since. Something else happened in 2009. It’s when New York City […]

Newsday Endorses Move NY for 2016, While the Times Misses Its Chance

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 4, 2016 | 2 Comments

Two of the region’s papers laid out their Albany 2016 agendas in New Year’s weekend editorials. Both led with ethics reform, but the similarities ended there. One paper boldly called on the legislature to “adopt some version of the innovative Move NY tolling-and-congestion pricing plan.” The other was silent on transit and traffic, even as it […]

Help TA and Families for Safe Streets Convince the AP to Drop “Accident”

By Brad Aaron | Nov 4, 2015 | 5 Comments

The word “accident” is so ingrained in media practice that reporters use it to describe basically any motor vehicle crash scenario, even when a driver is impaired or accused of using a car as a weapon. This is harmful because it disregards the fact that most collisions can be traced to preventable causes, including reckless driving […]

Giving Up on Public Spaces Is Exactly What NYC Did in “The Bad Old Days”

By Ben Fried | Sep 9, 2015 | 25 Comments

Normally Streetsblog would just ignore Steve Cuozzo’s rant yesterday about the evils of giving New Yorkers more room to walk and sit. But yanking out public space is a surprisingly credible threat these days, so here goes. If you missed it, the nut of Cuozzo’s piece is that because he saw some homeless people sitting on benches […]

Trottenberg: DOT Will Soon Propose Amsterdam Avenue Bike Lane

By Stephen Miller | Aug 14, 2015 | 22 Comments

DOT will release a long-awaited proposal for a bike lane and other traffic calming measures on Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side this September or October, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show this morning. The announcement comes after years of requests from local advocates and Manhattan Community Board 7 for a […]

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