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Two Events This Weekend Build on Momentum for Safer Queens Streets

By Brad Aaron | Feb 7, 2014 | No Comments

There are a couple of events focusing on safer streets in Queens this weekend. Make Queens Safer will host a pedestrian safety town hall Sunday afternoon, with Congressman Joe Crowley and Assembly Member Francisco Moya. Representatives from the 108th and 115th Precincts were invited to the meeting, along with DOT and the Department of Education. […]

Eastern Queens Advocates Hope to Turn “Motor Parkway” Into Greenway

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2014 | 5 Comments

Union Turnpike, running 10 miles through the midsection of Queens and across the border to Nassau County, is one of the borough’s most unsafe places to walk or bike. Now, a group of eastern Queens residents is looking to extend an existing walking and biking path through state- and city-owned property parallel to the multi-lane road. […]

Cuomo Announces $67M for Bike/Ped Projects, Including Pulaski Bridge

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2014 | 11 Comments

[Editor’s note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] Via the Tri-State Transportation Campaign: Earlier this week Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $67 million in funding for walking and biking infrastructure statewide, after advocates had pressed the state to follow through on the recently passed complete streets law with […]

For One Reckless Driving Survivor, “Life Looks a Lot Different Than Before”

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2014 | 7 Comments

Traffic fatality numbers usually get the headlines, but as a measure of how safe or dangerous it is to walk and bike, injuries are the more stable metric. Since 2003, according to state DMV data, an average of just under 14,000 people were injured by motorists while walking and biking in the city each year. Of […]

Doctors Relate the Horror of Traffic Violence at Pedestrian Injury Summit

By Brad Aaron | Dec 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

Medical professionals and transportation experts convened Thursday for the third New York City Summit on Pedestrian Injury, hosted by Elmhurst Hospital. The day-long event brought transportation officials and advocates together with doctors who witness the destruction caused by reckless drivers in the city every day. The summit is chaired by Dr. Jamie Ullman, director of neurosurgery […]

Senior Killed by Bus Driver in Bronx; Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Man in Queens

By Brad Aaron | Dec 9, 2013 | 1 Comment

Two NYC pedestrians were killed by motorists over the weekend. One of the victims was a senior; the other was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the City Council district represented by Eric Ulrich, where at least five pedestrians have died in traffic in 2013. Last Friday evening at approximately 6:45 p.m., 74-year-old Gloria Mabry […]

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