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Opinion: Electric Cars Shouldn’t Distract Us From Building a More Walkable World

By Steve Price | Feb 28, 2023 | No Comments

"Governments champion EVs to win voter support, and corporations offer optimistic product projections to lure investors. The reality is that electric cars will be less of a solution than presently expected."

The parents of Sarah Schick, Evelyne (right) and Pierre Schick, during a press conference at the site where their daughter was killed on Monday. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Family of Killed Cyclist Will Seek $100M For City Negligence in Crash

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 27, 2023 | No Comments

“They knew and did nothing,” Sarah Schick's widowed husband Maxime Le Munier said on Monday.

Monday’s Headlines: The Fire This Time Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Feb 27, 2023 | No Comments

There are long-standing dangers and new dangers. Which do you think gets the most attention in this country? Plus other news.

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Here’s How State DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road

By Kea Wilson | Feb 27, 2023 | No Comments

A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.

Chez Oskar's outdoor dining structures beautify Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn. Photo: Shannon Greer

EXCLU: Council Will Move Ahead with Seasonal Outdoor Dining Plan

By Kevin Duggan | Feb 27, 2023 | No Comments

The Council plans to make the city's outdoor dining program permanent, but the roadside "streeteries" will become just seasonal, as part of revised legislation expected to come before lawmakers next month, Council sources told Streetsblog.

Newtown Road is a dangerous cut-through street between 30th Avenue and Northern Boulevard. Tsering Wangdu, whose daughter Dolma was killed in a crash, wants change. Photos: Gersh Kuntzman

Dolma’s Grieving Father, Pols Seek Traffic Light at Fatal Corner — But Larger Safety Improvements are Needed

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 26, 2023 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation says it will not add a traffic light at an Astoria intersection where a 7-year-old girl was killed earlier this month.

If a driver wants to speed on Wilson Avenue, not much will stop him. Photo: Google

Bicyclist Killed on Residential Staten Island Street by a Reckless Driver

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 25, 2023 | No Comments

Is there no safe place to ride in this city?

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Talking Headways Podcast: Can Everyone be a Landscape Architect? No!

By Jeff Wood | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

Let's talk about food deserts and transportation access and the American Society of Landscape Architects Climate Action Plan.

Friday’s Headlines: Requiem for a Little Angel, Plus Some Janno News

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

The big story this weekend will be on Sunday, when friends and family members gather at an Astoria playground to remember Dolma Naadhun, the 7-year-old girl killed a week earlier by a reckless driver. Plus a bit of anger from Janno Leiber. And other news.

MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber, thinking about a world where he doesn't keep getting asked question about congestion pricing delays. Photo: Dave Colon

MTA Pushes Congestion Pricing Back to Second Quarter of 2024

By Dave Colon | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

The MTA quietly pushed back its implementation of congestion pricing by another few months, a move that the agency said would cost it quarter of a billion dollars in expected revenue in 2024.

On Thursday, DOT workers (background) were on the scene of the death of 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun to make improvements to the intersection. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

R.I.P. DOLMA: A Deep Dive on DOT’s Daylighting Dilemma

By Gersh Kuntzman and Kevin Duggan | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

Streetsblog has heretofore unseen internal data that shows why DOT doesn't always like to provide full visibility at intersections.

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Why Won’t Pols Give Up Driving for Just a Week — Even When Asked Nicely?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 24, 2023 | No Comments

Such "challenges" generate a flurry of local news coverage ... but not a lot of participation. No wonder most lawmakers have the "windshield perspective."

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