Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Long Island City

Van Bramer on Queens Bike-Share: “Not Just Waiting For It… Pushing For It”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

At a rally this afternoon on the steps of City Hall, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer called for the city’s bike-share program to be expanded to western Queens as quickly as possible. This isn’t the first time Van Bramer — already a Citi Bike member — has pushed for bike-share. When the program was announced, he pressed the city […]

Pulaski Bridge Bike Lane OK’d by DOT Traffic Study; Engineering Review Next

By Stephen Miller | May 3, 2013 | 13 Comments

A protected bike lane on the Pulaski Bridge — calming traffic heading to McGuinness Boulevard and providing much more breathing room than the bridge’s narrow bike/ped path alone — has cleared a significant planning hurdle. In a letter to Assembly Member Joe Lentol [PDF], DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said that the proposal meets traffic analysis […]

Van Bramer to DOT: Prioritize Ped Safety Over QBB-Bound Traffic

By Stephen Miller | Mar 14, 2013 | 6 Comments

This morning, with constant horn honking and engine noise in the background, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer called on DOT to study and implement traffic calming improvements along Thomson Avenue in the wake of the death of 16 year-old Tenzin Drudak, who was standing on the sidewalk when a driver jumped the curb and plowed into […]

No Charges Filed as Six Are Killed by NYC Drivers in Seven Days

By Brad Aaron | Mar 14, 2013 | 6 Comments

A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a truck driver in Red Hook Wednesday was the latest victim among six city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the last week. At approximately 6:40 a.m. yesterday, Lillian Cruz, 60, was crossing Hamilton Avenue at Court Street when the signal changed and the driver of a tractor-trailer, westbound […]

Driver Jumps Long Island City Curb, Killing Tenzin Drudak, 16, on Sidewalk

By Stephen Miller | Mar 11, 2013 | 17 Comments

At approximately 10:30 this morning, a minivan driver that witnesses say was speeding eastbound on Thomson Avenue in Long Island City crossed oncoming traffic, jumped the curb, and struck a group of students on the sidewalk at the corner with 30th Street, near Skillman Avenue. The crash killed Tenzin Drudak, 16, and left four others injured. Drudak was a […]

Lentol: DOT Study of Pulaski Bridge Bike Lane Slated to Wrap By March

By Ben Fried | Jan 3, 2013 | 6 Comments

Quick update on the campaign for a protected two-way bikeway on the Pulaski Bridge: We don’t know if DOT is going to implement one yet, but we know when they’ll make a decision. Yesterday, Assembly Member Joe Lentol sent out word that DOT chief Janette Sadik-Khan told him the agency will wrap up its feasibility […]

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