Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Vision Zero

With Bus Fatalities Down, Albany Shouldn’t Meddle With Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Jun 19, 2015 | 4 Comments

Violate my right of way? That’s wrong, no matter who you are. @CarlHeastie #DefendRoW no exceptions! #walkingfamilies pic.twitter.com/yNp5nRRbXA — TransAlt (@transalt) June 19, 2015 In 2014 MTA bus drivers killed eight people in crosswalks. Some of those fatalities occurred after the Right of Way Law took effect last August, and several bus drivers were arrested […]

De Blasio Signs Bill Requiring Side Guards on 10,000 Trucks by 2024

By Stephen Miller | Jun 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill yesterday requiring side guards on all large city trucks, and on private garbage trucks operating in New York City, by 2024. When a truck driver strikes someone with the side of the vehicle, the guards prevent people from getting crushed beneath the truck’s rear wheels. They have been proven to reduce deaths and […]

Ydanis Rodriguez: “We Should Leave the Right of Way Law As It Is”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 16, 2015 | 10 Comments

Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez opposes an amendment to the Right of Way Law that would provide a special exemption for bus drivers. “I stand in support of the bill as written,” he told Streetsblog this afternoon. “I think that we should leave the Right of Way Law as it is.” The Transport Workers Union is seeking an […]

TWU Demands to Be Allowed to Kill People Who Have the Right of Way

By Stephen Miller | Jun 16, 2015 | 48 Comments

Wadsworth & 181 in Upper Manh: Bus waits to take a left turn as oblivious pedestrian crosses intersection pic.twitter.com/1sdNUEcyZo — TWU Local 100 (@TWULocal100) June 16, 2015 The Transport Workers Union is making a great case for why the Right of Way Law should apply to all drivers. The law made it a misdemeanor for drivers to […]

Unions Agree: Let Bus Drivers Kill People With the Right of Way

By Brad Aaron | Jun 12, 2015 | 40 Comments

Just about all of New York’s major labor unions signed a Transport Workers Union letter demanding that MTA bus drivers be allowed to legally injure and kill people who are walking or biking with the right of way. The letter, dated June 11, was sent to New York City Council members [PDF]. The unions want the council to […]

Council Calls on de Blasio to Double “Great Streets” Redesign Funds

By Brad Aaron | Jun 10, 2015 | 3 Comments

The City Council wants Mayor de Blasio to double funding for DOT capital projects to overhaul the city’s most dangerous streets and save more lives, faster. At a council budget hearing last week, transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez called for additional funds in the executive budget for the “Great Streets” program. As of now the mayor’s budget proposes $250 million […]

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