Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

To Make Atlantic Ave Safer, Advocates Want to Hear All About Its Problems

By Stephen Miller | Oct 1, 2014 | No Comments

Efforts to improve safety along Atlantic Avenue are moving ahead as advocates gain support and the Department of City Planning continues its study of the dangerous arterial street. Each year, about 140 pedestrians and cyclists are seriously injured or killed on Atlantic Avenue, according to Transportation Alternatives. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign ranked Atlantic the third-most […]

Traffic Lights Don’t Belong on a Park Loop

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2014 | 109 Comments

Two separate crashes in which cyclists struck and killed pedestrians on the Central Park loop have garnered more media attention than any other traffic safety issue in the past two months. In addition to the inevitable reemergence of a few bikelash trolls, the collisions have led to a round of less spiteful stories that still miss […]

Eyes on the Street: Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Aftermath at 4th Ave and Degraw

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

Reader Mike Donohue sends this eyewitness account of a driver who fled the scene of a crash in Park Slope Sunday morning. At about 9:45 a.m., Donohue was on his bike, stopped at a red light on Degraw Street at Fourth Avenue. When the light turned green for traffic on Degraw, a driver heading north on […]

Eyes on the Street: Safer Streets Come to Jackson Heights

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

In June, Queens Community Board 3 overwhelmingly supported two traffic safety projects: a neighborhood Slow Zone for part of Jackson Heights and new pedestrian islands on Northern Boulevard. Now those improvements plus multiple Safe Routes to School projects are being installed. Clarence Eckerson Jr. snapped some photos earlier this week as DOT crews poured concrete […]

No Charges for Van Driver Who Killed Elderly Woman in Crosswalk

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2014 | 29 Comments

The day after a commercial van driver killed an elderly woman in a Manhattan crosswalk, no charges have been filed, though NYPD implied but failed to confirm that the victim had the right of way. The company that employs the driver, meanwhile, refused to say if he will face any disciplinary action, and he could […]

Garodnick Endorses Complete Streets for Fifth and Sixth Avenues

By Stephen Miller | Sep 24, 2014 | 8 Comments

The next time someone tries to tell you that complete street designs with pedestrian islands and protected bike lanes are controversial, point them to what’s happening on Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Avenues in Manhattan, where a united coalition of parents, business owners, elected officials, and community boards are begging DOT to design streets in the […]

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