Fans to Mets Owner: We Don’t Want to Drive to Citi Field
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New Yorkers who showed up at a "visioning session" on Saturday to discuss the future of the parking lots surrounding Citi Field put cars low on their power rankings.
Road Deaths Surged Alongside Covid — But Who Died, Exactly?
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The surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic can't be completely explained by quarantine-emptied roads that made speeding easy — and new data on who, exactly, was involved in those crashes may lead to more questions than answers.
Opinion: Open Plans Lays Out Its ‘Joyful, Sustainable’ Future for a People-Centered NYC
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Manage public space better. Eliminate parking mandates. Manage the curb. These and other ideas from the city's leading proponents of livable streets.
Monday’s Headlines: Criminal Mischief Special Edition
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On Friday, your irascible old scribe caught so many more law enforcement officials covering or defacing their plate that "criminal mischief" posts filled my Twitter feed. Plus other news.
‘Disgraceful’: Adams Administration’s Failure to Reach Bus Lane Requirement Angers Bus Riders
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“The fact that they barely got over half of the way there, that’s disgraceful. To me, that means that they didn’t try,” said one passenger.
Driver Sought in Hit-and-Run in Crown Heights — Was It Intentional?
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Police are seeking the heartless hit-and-run driver who flattened a pedestrian in Crown Heights on Friday night — a brutal, but rare, instance of road violence captured on camera that is now being investigated as a possible hate crime because the collision may have been intentional.
Locals Have Been Begging for Safer Street Where Trucker Killed Citi Bike Rider
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Four dead cyclists in three years. Enough is enough, say Astoria activists.
Friday’s Headlines: More Work for Gov. Hochul Edition
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Yesterday, we led with Transportation Alternatives's doorstop of an agenda for Gov. Hochul. Today, brings a more concise wish list from our parent company, Open Plans. Plus other news.
Tragedy Times Two: Lev Fruchter Has Now Lost Both Parents to Road Violence
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First, Rachel Fruchter was killed by a reckless, uninsurable driver in Prospect Park in 1997. Then, Norman Fruchter was killed last month by a reckless uninsurable driver in Bay Ridge.
BREAKING: Cement Truck Driver Fatally Strikes Woman on Citi Bike in Astoria
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A trucker fatally struck a woman riding a Citi Bike in Astoria on Thursday evening, the fourth cyclist to be killed in the western Queens neighborhood in less than three years, according to officials.
Two More Brooklyn Pedestrians Are Killed
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Both were seniors.
Steal This Idea: Cincinnati Hires In-House Crew To Build Pedestrian Infrastructure
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In what could be a model for cities across America, Cincinnati is creating an in-house team to build safer streets for people who walk and roll, and vaulting over one of the most common roadblocks to saving vulnerable road users lives.