Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Jose Ramos (inset) was killed on a strip of roadway that the DOT beautified, but did not make safer. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

SAFETY THIRD: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Deaf Man on Notorious Speedway that DOT Failed to Fix

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 16, 2021 | No Comments

A Brooklyn man was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a notoriously dangerous stretch of Atlantic Avenue in East New York on Friday night — a fatal crash that presents real-time evidence of the incompetence and apathy of city officials in keeping its most vulnerable residents safe.

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Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Cheap, Rapid, and in Our Control

By Jenny O'Connell | Oct 16, 2021 | No Comments

How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.

A video still shows the moment when bus driver Dave Lewis passed too closely to cyclist Dan Hanegby, who had the right of way, killing him. DA candidate Liz Crotty argues that the city's "Right of Way" Law shouldn't criminalize such crashes, which she calls "accidents."

IT’S OVER: State’s Highest Court Sets Aside Last Challenges to City’s ‘Right of Way’ Law

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 12, 2021 | No Comments

It turns out it IS a crime to drive with negligence and then hit someone with your car.

Here is what is going on inside Dermot Shea's head.

DOT’s ‘Vision Zero Partner’ Dermot Shea is More Afraid of Bikes Than Cars — Despite His Own Agency’s Data

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 6, 2021 | No Comments

He's the Vision Zero partner with zero vision.

The harm of cars is barely noticed by the mainstream media, says Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton (inset).

Opinion: Congestion Pricing Does Not Begin to Compensate Society for the Harm and Violence Caused by Cars

By Mark Gorton | Oct 5, 2021 | No Comments

Much of the coverage of congestion pricing focuses on the need for a toll to reduce congestion or pollution. And that's important. But drivers need to know that they do far more harm than merely causing traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Put simply: Cars destroy the human living environment in the city.

(from top) Sara Lind, Robert Green and Carl Mahaney have joined Open Plans.

Open Plans Brings on Three New Hires in Fight for Livable Streets

By Eve Kessler | Oct 4, 2021 | No Comments

Policy wiz Sara Lind, marketing guru Robert Green, and advocate Carl Mahaney join the push for a people-centered city.

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