Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

New Families For Safe Streets Campaign Defends Right of Way Law

By Stephen Miller | Apr 30, 2015 | 16 Comments

Families For Safe Streets released videos and posters this morning defending the Right of Way Law, in response to a campaign by Transport Workers Union Local 100, which wants MTA bus drivers exempted from the law. The Right of Way Law, passed unanimously by the City Council and signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio last June, allows for low-level misdemeanor charges against drivers who […]

Bay Ridge CB Overwhelmingly Backs Bike Lanes, Pedestrian Safety Fixes

By Stephen Miller | Apr 27, 2015 | 8 Comments

Bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements are coming to Bay Ridge after a pair of votes at Brooklyn Community Board 10 last week. It’s a turnaround from just a few years ago, when the board gained a reputation as one of the most anti-bike in the city. After voting down a 2011 DOT proposal to add bike […]

Pedestrian Injuries Down 61% on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope After Road Diet

By Stephen Miller | Apr 21, 2015 | 37 Comments

As in Sunset Park, the Fourth Avenue road diet has yielded impressive street safety dividends for Park Slope, including a 61 percent drop in pedestrian injuries. Now, DOT is moving forward with plans to cast its changes in concrete. Between Atlantic Avenue and 15th Street, the road diet widened medians, shortened crossing distances, and trimmed the number of […]

Two Community Boards Sign Off on Greenpoint Avenue Bridge Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Apr 17, 2015 | 6 Comments

Four years ago, DOT shelved a plan that would have added bike lanes to the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, also known as the J.J. Byrne Bridge, after a year of outcry from area businesses and residents. Now, a modified plan has cleared two community boards little more than a month after it was first proposed. Unlike the previous […]

Neighborhood Residents Ask DOT to Tame Deadly Mosholu Parkway

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2015 | 4 Comments

With its rolling curves and park-like setting, Mosholu Parkway might look pretty to people sitting behind a windshield. But for people on foot, it’s a roaring Robert Moses-era surface highway, up to eight lanes wide, running between Norwood and Bedford Park in the Bronx. The road divides the park and provides few places to safely cross. Now, residents are asking DOT to make some changes. The […]

Bed-Stuy CB Freaks Out Over Adding Pedestrian Space to Fulton and Utica

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2015 | 27 Comments

Creating more space for pedestrians at a dangerous, crowded transfer point between bus lines and the subway — sounds like a no-brainer, right? Not at Brooklyn Community Board 3, where the default position is to reflexively reject even the smallest street safety change. Fulton Street and Utica Avenue are both dangerous streets that the de Blasio administration has targeted […]

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