‘We Told You So!’: Crash Highlights Street Dangers in Queens
| | 33 Comments
How many more people must be hurt or killed before the city prioritizes DOT's proven, life saving improvements over the convenience of drivers?
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fresh Meadows
Memo to New York Post: Dooring Is Illegal, Not a “Freak Accident” [Updated]
| | 33 Comments
Update: The victim has been identified by NY1 as Tskaka Cooke, 39. The Times-Ledger also filed a report on the crash. The New York Post story on the crash that killed a cyclist in Fresh Meadows this weekend is a textbook example of press corps victim-blaming. Here are the facts of the crash, as related […]
Queens Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition
| | No Comments
Workers on a DOT truck reconfigured a traffic signal in front of P.S. 200 in Queens on Friday. On Friday, I visited the intersection of Jewel Avenue and 164th Street in Fresh Meadows, Queens to take a look at the Department of Transportation’s latest controversial "road diet." Despite a Monday morning press conference in which […]