Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Daniel Squadron

Albany Lawmakers Fail to Advance Bills on Careless Driving, Select Bus Lights

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2013 | 5 Comments

Proponents of safer streets and a stronger MTA fared better than usual in Albany this year, securing speed cameras for NYC and scoring a tentative win on the transit lockbox — which now depends on Governor Cuomo’s signature to protect straphangers from budget raids by state lawmakers, including himself. However, legislators failed to pass bills that […]

Careless Driving Amendment Passes Senate, Awaits Action by Assembly

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

A bill targeted at NYPD’s self-imposed ban on penalizing motorists for careless driving has cleared the State Senate, but awaits passage in the Assembly. The bill would amend Hayley and Diego’s Law by explicitly stating that officers may ticket or arrest drivers who harm pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable street users whether or not they […]

Senate Committee Votes to Close Loophole in Careless Driving Law

By Stephen Miller | Mar 19, 2013 | 5 Comments

Just hours after the City Council transportation committee unanimously passed a resolution asking Albany to take action, the Senate transportation committee advanced a bill, with an 18-1 vote, that would close a loophole in Hayley and Diego’s Law, with the goal of increased enforcement of the state’s careless driving law by police and district attorneys. The law is named after […]

Mirror Law Loopholes Keep City Pedestrians at Risk From Large Trucks

By Brad Aaron | Dec 17, 2012 | 3 Comments

Following queries by Streetsblog, two state senators have pledged to address loopholes in a new state law that permit large trucks to be operated without safety mirrors, thereby endangering pedestrians and cyclists, especially children and the elderly, in New York City neighborhoods. The law requires trucks weighing over 26,000 pounds to be equipped with convex, or […]

In Wake of Traffic Fatality Spike, Officials Tout Safer Delancey Street

By Stephen Miller | Sep 27, 2012 | 6 Comments

This morning, elected officials and community leaders unveiled a slate of pedestrian safety improvements to Delancey Street, long ranked as one of the city’s most dangerous places to walk. Nine people were killed and 742 injured between 2006 and 2010 on Delancey, from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Bowery. In the last six years, there […]

Trucker Who Killed Jessica Dworkin Cited for Careless Driving

By Brad Aaron | Aug 29, 2012 | 20 Comments

The truck driver who killed Jessica Dworkin in the West Village Monday morning was summonsed for failure to yield and failure to exercise due care, according to NYPD, but was not cited for possible violations related to truck size and safety mirrors. Dworkin, 58, was riding a foot-propelled scooter west on Houston Street just before […]

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