Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Staten Island

Bike Lanes on Track for Staten Island’s Clove Road Early This Summer

By Stephen Miller | Apr 23, 2015 | 7 Comments

Clove Road is set to get bike lanes this summer, including a half-mile road diet, nearly two years after Staten Island Community Board 1 asked DOT for the street safety fixes. Running past the Staten Island Zoo on the way from Wagner College to Port Richmond, Clove Road is a key diagonal connection across North Shore neighborhoods. The […]

NYPD Tickets Driver After Blaming Staten Island Teen for Her Own Death

By Brad Aaron | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

After initially blaming the victim in the press, NYPD issued a careless driving summons to the monster truck driver who killed 15-year-old Jenna Daniels as she jogged along a Staten Island street last winter. The department refused to release the driver’s name or disclose how he was penalized, the Staten Island Advance reports. The driver hit Daniels with a pickup […]

Ride With Clarence on the Tour de Staten Island

By Brad Aaron | Apr 13, 2015 | 7 Comments

Close to 2,000 people turned out Sunday for Transportation Alternatives’ 2015 Tour de Staten Island. For the event’s fifth year, riders were treated to areas of the new Fresh Kills Park that aren’t yet open to the public. Other highlights included oceanside riding and views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, where the Harbor Ring Committee continues to advocate for bike and pedestrian […]

MTA Tests Bike Racks on Bus Across Verrazano

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2015 | 19 Comments

An anonymously-sourced New York Post story yesterday might leave readers with the impression that new bike racks on the front of Staten Island buses will lead to late trips and a liability nightmare for the MTA. The MTA, however, says it’s still studying the racks — a tried-and-true amenity in every other big American city […]

Pedestrian Deaths Have Fallen in Every Borough Except Staten Island

By Stephen Miller | Feb 20, 2015 | 23 Comments

DOT released the final installment of its pedestrian safety plans yesterday with a report for Staten Island [PDF], where the nature of pedestrian crashes is different than in the other boroughs. Over the past three decades, the city as a whole grew approximately 19 percent while the number of pedestrian fatalities was cut in half. On Staten Island, […]

Steve Matteo and NY1: A Speed Camera Is Working, So Vision Zero Is a Scam

By Brad Aaron | Jan 9, 2015 | 73 Comments

Speeding is the leading cause of fatal traffic crashes in New York City, and with unreliable police enforcement, cameras are essential to protecting New Yorkers from reckless drivers. Data released last summer showed that 20 speed cameras, covering a tiny fraction city streets, issued roughly as many speeding tickets in one month as NYPD did in […]

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