Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

DA Offers Plea to Road Rager Gonzalez

By Ben Fried | Jan 13, 2010 | 7 Comments

The DA’s office has not contacted the witness who took this photograph of Gus Gonzalez last May. At a hearing in criminal court on Monday, Manhattan prosecutors offered a plea deal to Gus Gonzalez, the driver who assaulted cyclist Ray Bengen in the Ninth Avenue bike lane last May. Gonzalez had been charged with third […]

Vance “Reviewing” Safir Hit-and-Run, Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2010 | 14 Comments

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is looking into last Friday’s Upper East Side hit-and-run involving former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir and pedestrian Joanne Valarezo, as well as two recent incidents in which a pedestrian and cyclist were killed. Howard Safir and Joanne Valarezo have very different versions of what happened on Third […]

The $290,000 Speeding Ticket

By Noah Kazis | Jan 8, 2010 | 13 Comments

The record-setting ticket was given to the driver of a red Ferrari Testarossa. Photo: SeeMonterey via Flickr. It would be a red Ferrari, wouldn’t it? The Swiss courts just handed down the world’s most expensive speeding ticket: 299,000 Swiss francs, or just under $290,000. According to the BBC, the motorist was barreling through a small […]

NYPD on Fatal Delancey Street Crash: “Looks Like It Was Just an Accident”

By Ben Fried | Jan 7, 2010 | 15 Comments

Photo: CS Muncy/Flickr via Gothamist. The police department confirmed this morning that no criminal charges have been filed against the bus driver who struck and killed a woman riding a bike on Delancey Street Tuesday afternoon. (The police have not released the identity of the victim, since the family hasn’t been notified yet.) "I don’t […]

Remembering Cyclists and Pedestrians Lost in 2009

By Brad Aaron | Jan 4, 2010 | 16 Comments

Cyclists gather Sunday at the Ghost Bike installation for Julian Miller, killed in Brooklyn last September. Photo: denali2001/Flickr Just a few hours into the new year, New York recorded its first pedestrian fatality of 2010. At around 6:45 p.m. on Friday, January 1, an unidentified 50-year-old man was struck and killed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The […]

Victims, Electeds: Time for Action Against Driving While Unlicensed

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2009 | 6 Comments

Spurred by the recent hit-and-run deaths of three pedestrians, Transportation Alternatives led a protest on Sunday calling for new measures to keep unlicensed drivers from getting behind the wheel. On the steps of City Hall, advocates were joined by David Sheppard, fiance of Sonya Powell, and City Council Member Larry Seabrook. According to the DMV, […]

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