Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ben Kallos

Can New York City Reform Its Dysfunctional Community Board System?

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2015 | 7 Comments

New York City’s 59 community boards often serve as the sole venues where the public can assess and vet street design projects. But they are also structured in a way that inhibits any sort of change, giving de facto veto power over street improvements to a small clique who can serve for life. A bill in the City Council would establish […]

Ben Kallos Won’t Talk About Why He Wants to Gut the Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Mar 18, 2015 | 16 Comments

On October 8, 2014, the driver of a Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation bus hit cyclist Anna Maria Moström while making a left turn. Moström was mortally injured. Two days later, a Coca-Cola truck driver hit an unidentified 86-year-old man in a crosswalk while turning from E. 96th Street onto Third Avenue. The senior died from his injuries. Both drivers […]

NYPD: Failure to Yield Caused Crash That Left Cyclist Brain Dead; No Charges

By Stephen Miller | Oct 13, 2014 | 57 Comments

Update: Moström was removed from life support a week after the crash, according to the Post. No charges have been filed against the bus driver who left a Roosevelt Island cyclist brain dead last week, even though NYPD’s preliminary investigation shows the driver caused the crash by failing to yield to the cyclist. At 9:18 p.m. on […]

Kallos Puts Out a Meek Report on Upper East Side Street Safety

By Stephen Miller | Oct 3, 2014 | 25 Comments

The Upper East Side is full of dangerous intersections, and residents are clamoring for bus countdown clocks, benches, and bike racks, according to a two-part report released today by Council Member Ben Kallos [PDF 1, 2]. It’s not often a council member releases a report on livable streets, and Kallos should be commended for his […]

Ben Kallos Seeks to Make NYPD Traffic Summons Data Open and Mappable

By Stephen Miller | Jun 2, 2014 | 2 Comments

As part of a raft of bills on government data and transparency, Council Member Ben Kallos has introduced legislation that would require the city to release and map data about where NYPD issues moving violations, among other things. The bill would open up new traffic enforcement information to the public, but it might also require […]

Two Pedestrians Killed in a Month in Same Upper East Side Precinct

By Brad Aaron | May 9, 2014 | 43 Comments

Motorists have killed two pedestrians in the 19th Precinct, on the Upper East Side, in the last month. The second victim was a woman hit by a school bus driver yesterday. The victim was crossing E. 93rd Street at Second Avenue south to north at around 3:30 p.m. when she was run over by the bus […]

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