Mayor Announces ‘Charge Safe’ Plan to Help Delivery Workers Get Legal Bikes, Safe Batteries
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Parks and greenways would also finally allow legal electric bikes ... finally.
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After a Child’s Death, Can Newtown Road Be Reimagined?
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Is this really the best the city can do?
Analysis: City Ignored BQE Panel Recs To Ease Local Traffic From Two-Lane Conversion
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The city has failed to adopt key recommendations by its own appointed experts to curb congestion near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway after officials reduced the highway from six to four lanes — and the Adams administration may be now using that same congestion as a justification for building a wider highway.
Study: Pedestrian Death Rate More Than 2x Higher in Historically Red-Lined Neighborhoods
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Communities that were red-lined in the 1930s are still experiencing more than twice the rate of pedestrian deaths today than more privileged neighborhoods — and we can't achieve Vision Zero until we reckon with racist and classist policies that contribute to the disparity, a groundbreaking new study argues.
‘Major Victory’: Drivers Getting Nabbed With Fewer Speeding Tickets: City
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The city’s speed cameras are spitting out less tickets to drivers than they were six months ago, Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said — and that's good.
Delay Ahead: Queensboro Bridge Pedestrian Path Now Put Off Til ‘Early 2024’
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The Department of Transportation quietly revealed at a Council hearing this week that it has once again pushed back the timeline on transforming the south outer road of the Queensboro Bridge into exclusive space for pedestrians — with the lane now slated to open in 2024.