Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

A fresh stripe painted this year on the BrooklynBridge bike/pedestrian path. Photo: Kate Nicholson via Twitter.

Streetsblog Gets Action! DOT Repaints Basic Markings on the Brooklyn Bridge

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 27, 2019 | 3 Comments

The Department of Transportation, under fire for not ensuring safety on the Brooklyn Bridge bike and walking path, has finally painted a new center stripe and lane markings to discourage pedestrians and cyclists from mixing.

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Pedestrian Struck and Killed in Flushing — No Tickets Issued

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 24, 2019 | 5 Comments

A Flushing driver killed a pedestrian on Saturday, this time on dangerous Main Street, where disorder and chaos rule.

An appeal slowed down the M14 Busway, but a ruling on Friday may jumpstart it. Photo: Google Maps

UPDATED: 14th Street Landowners Sue City over Car-Free ‘Busway’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 21, 2019 | 32 Comments

The 14th Street Coalition says the DOT plan violates state environmental law because the agency didn't conduct a serious assessment of the impact that banning cars from 14th Street would have on neighboring residential streets.

Temporary New Jersey license plates. File photos: Ben Verde

Paper Plates from Jersey Make Scamming NYC Easy!

By Ben Verde | Jun 21, 2019 | 22 Comments

Car dealerships in upper Manhattan are taking parking theft to a new level of scam.

An overload of pedestrians on Eighth Avenue. Photo: DOT

Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists

By Melodie Bryant | Jun 21, 2019 | 45 Comments

The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.

City Will Defy Community Board and Paint Bay Ridge Bike Network

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 20, 2019 | 17 Comments

Two days after a Bay Ridge community board shot down a city plan for a starter kit of painted bike lanes — and one day after the neighborhood's elected officials demanded action — the Department of Transportation said it would ignore the board's vote and initiate its plan anyway.

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