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Here's the unprotected "protected" bike lane on Clinton Street with DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez (inset).

Wednesday’s Headlines: Hey Ydanis, Us First Edition

By Streetsblog | Jan 12, 2022 | No Comments

It didn't take long for fed-up cyclists to demand that Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez make good on his promise to bolster the city's scores of miles of flimsily protected bike lanes. Plus other news.

A symbol of New York City's bike lane network. File photo: Vivian Lipson

Bike NY to DOT: The City’s Cycling Program is No Longer a World Leader, So Fix It

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 12, 2022 | No Comments

The first order of business is recognizing the city has a problem, the Jan. 7 letter from Bike New York to DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez stated.

Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

So is Eric Adams’s ‘Asst. Parking Director’ Brother Qualified to Head Mayoral Security?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 12, 2022 | No Comments

From parking cars to protecting the second-most-important public official in the United States?

SEE IT: Streetfilms Shows How Cargo Bikes Are Revolutionizing Family Life in New York

By Eve Kessler | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments

Parents with conventional or electric bikes are loading up their kids (sometimes several kids!) and taking them everywhere.

Mayor Adams is asking New Yorkers to give. Please do. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

Tuesday’s Headlines: Heed Hizzoner’s Call Edition

By Streetsblog | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments

Mayor Adams called upon New Yorkers to aid the victims of Sunday's fire, so here's how to do that. Plus other news from Monday.

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USPS EV Plan is DOA, Say Advocates

By Kea Wilson | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments

Sustainability leaders are furious at the United States Postal Service for dragging its feet on ditching gas-powered trucks — and the agency doesn't seem to be considering cargo bikes, either.

Look, ma, no cars! This is what a safe street looks like. File photo: Angela Stach

BY THE NUMBERS: Car-Free Streets are Simply Safer, Data Continue to Show

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments

Injuries, for example, are down 89 percent along the 34th Avenue open street, a new analysis shows.

Caught in the wild! The Department of Sanitation's new narrow snow plow in its first test. Photo: Dave Colon

Monday’s Headlines: DSNY on Ice Edition

By Streetsblog | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

When the snow started falling on Friday, we were poised more discrimination of cyclists by the Department of Sanitation. But we were pleasantly surprised. Plus other news from the weekend.

Despite End of Holiday Season, DOT Has No Update on Long-Stalled Fifth Ave. Project

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

New mayor, same old problem. We are nearly two weeks into the New Year and the city still doesn’t have a plan for restarting the long-delayed redesign of Fifth Avenue — a street improvement project announced by former Mayor de Blasio in 2020, delayed and watered-down, but then scheduled to begin “after the holidays” of […]

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Chicago Study Reaffirms Speed Cameras are Saving Lives

By John Greenfield | Jan 9, 2022 | No Comments

Crashes near speed cameras have stayed relatively low.

Here's the moment of impact when Luis Zuniga allegedly killed Estelle Davis.

Brooklyn DA Charges Reckless Backhoe Driver, Foreman for Killing Senior Pedestrian

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 7, 2022 | No Comments

The construction worker who backed over and killed a 61-year-old woman last year in Brooklyn — as well as the foreman at his jobsite — have been charged in the death.

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New D.C. Law Makes Employers Refund Workers Who Reject Pro-Driving Benefits

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2022 | No Comments

Many employers in Washington, D.C. are now required to pay workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits — a model for other American cities who want to stop incentivizing commuters to drive.

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