Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ydanis Rodriguez

Will the City Council Press NYPD to Enforce the Right of Way Law?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 5, 2016 | No Comments

NYPD is barely enforcing a key Vision Zero law more than a year after it took effect, and it seems the City Council isn’t planning to do anything about it. The aim of the Right of Way Law, also known as Administrative Code Section 19-190, was to give NYPD precinct officers a tool to penalize motorists who injure or kill. […]

Trottenberg Announces Plaza Equity Program at Plaza de Las Americas Reveal

By Brad Aaron | Nov 23, 2015 | 13 Comments

Just eight months after the groundbreaking ceremony, officials held a ribbon-cutting this morning at Plaza de Las Americas, an impressive new public space in Washington Heights. Also today, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced a City Hall initiative to assist plazas in neighborhoods without the resources of a major business improvement district. Plaza de Las Americas reclaims one block of […]

Rodriguez Champions Toll Reform in Broad Vision for NYC Transportation

By Stephen Miller | Oct 5, 2015 | 23 Comments

Reforming New York’s broken road pricing and parking policies top an extensive list of transportation priorities from City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, which he unveiled this morning in a speech at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation. The most pressing item on Rodriguez’s agenda is the Move New York toll reform proposal, which would […]

Rodriguez Bill Would Mandate Daylighting at 25 Intersections Per Year

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2015 | 19 Comments

City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez introduced legislation today intended to improve pedestrian safety along bus routes and at intersections with high crash rates. Intro 912 would require DOT to daylight the five “most dangerous intersections” in each borough annually, as determined by the number of fatalities and injuries. Curb extensions would be installed to […]

Levine and Rodriguez Press DOT to Implement West Harlem Bus Lanes ASAP

By Stephen Miller | Jul 16, 2015 | 3 Comments

Transit advocates and Upper Manhattan elected officials gathered this morning at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street to urge DOT to extend bus lanes on 125th Street to West Harlem as soon as possible. The city installed bus lanes on 125th east of Lenox Avenue last spring, and DOT says they will be extended west to […]

After Fatal Crash, Rodriguez Asks DOT for W. 207th Street Safety Study

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez wants DOT to study safety improvements for an Inwood street where drivers killed a pedestrian and injured a second victim last night. Two drivers struck two men, ages 24 and 35, as they attempted to cross W. 207th Street near Ninth Avenue at around 10:27 p.m. The victims entered the street “outside […]

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