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Study: Asphalt Art Decreases Vulnerable Road User Crashes By 50 Percent

By Kea Wilson | Apr 23, 2022 | No Comments

Turns out, paint can be protection, at least when it's done right.

An example of the new MTA electric buses. Photo: Governor's Office

MTA To Add 60 Electric Buses by Year’s End (That’s 1% of the Entire Fleet)

By Eve Kessler | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

In the latest advance of a slow rollout, the new vehicles will be deployed to communities with high asthma rates.

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Study: Car Ownership Doesn’t Help Black Workers’ Commutes

By Kea Wilson | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

It still takes Black workers 22 minutes longer to get to work every week than their White counterparts — it's probably not possible to speed up those commutes in urban areas with automotive strategies alone.

Mayor Adams pointed to the new trash enclosures installed by the Times Square Alliance under the Clean Curbs program at press conference on Wednesday. Photo: Mayor's Office

City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs

By Eve Kessler | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?

New York Gets an ‘F’ Grade in the New ‘Bike Friendly States’ Survey…

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

They could have been a contender.

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And America’s Best Bus Stop Is …

By Streetsblog | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

A bus stop in Vacationland has narrowly beaten the Walnut Avenue stop along Boston's Columbus Avenue Busway.

Side-by-side, before-and-after renderings show what a trash enclosure will look like at 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. The Times Square Alliance is set to install such an enclosure there and in the street at 43rd and Eight Avenue on April 18. Images: CITIBIN

Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures

By Eve Kessler | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.

Grieving mother Tasha Horton still doesn't have the answers.

EXCLUSIVE: Cops Questioned Driver in Fatal Brooklyn Hit-and-Run But Just Let Him Go

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 18, 2022 | No Comments

A review of the NYPD investigation of the hit-and-run killing of Imorne Horton raises questions about police procedures and whether the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney are sufficiently concerned about holding killer drivers accountable.