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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Huge Grant: Feds Send City $12M to Improve Post-Crash Analyses. Advocates have been seeking this for years: a single repository where the disparate findings from multiple agencies about road crashes will be stored and analyzed. Gersh Kuntzman. September 6, 2024. bus lanes.
Revel Scooters Quietly Creates New Manhattan Service Area, Plus …
WEBMar 26, 2020 · The company is also offering free memberships to health care workers during the crisis, just as Citi Bike is doing, too. Revel's announcement focused on its contributions to the emergency service workers, but the expansion into Manhattan is …
and How You Can, Too - Streetsblog New York City
WEBJan 3, 2022 · With that ammo, I filed an Article 78 lawsuit — named after a provision in the state’s Freedom of Information Law that enables judges to compel government entities that wrongfully withhold information. We were assigned an October 2021 court date, which we adjourned for November. Then, just before our appearance, I got an email with a zipped file from the NYC Law Department.
Julianne Cuba - Streetsblog New York City
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at @julcuba. Email […]
Third Ave. 'Complete Street' Adds Wide Bike Lane, But Still Keeps …
WEBDec 8, 2023 · The city’s redesign of Third Avenue adds a nice, wide protected bike path, but with its frequently blocked bus lane, the overhaul of nearly 40 blocks from Midtown to the Upper East Side doesn't really earn its "complete street" name.
The Bronx is Up: DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Under the …
WEBMay 18, 2021 · Now that’s a vision. A Department of Transportation plan to repurpose dangerous and ambiguous road space underneath a stretch of elevated train tracks in the Bronx into a protected bike lane should become the gold standard for the hundreds of miles of roads under elevated highways, rail lines and bridges across New York City, advocates say.. Last month, the DOT unveiled designs to Bronx ...
AIRBORNE ASSAULT: City Considers Weakening Idling Law that …
WEBMar 4, 2022 · What part of environmental protection do they not get?. The city agency in charge of cleaning the air and water is considering a tiny, but crucial, rule change that will lead to fewer idling summonses and will worsen air pollution, advocates said at an online hearing on Wednesday.
The Space We Give to Passenger Cars Only
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · New York’s passenger-car-only expressways are a relic of our status as the wealthiest state in the earliest days of the automobile, when many of these “recreational” roads were erected. Our earliest parkways — the Bronx River, Hutchinson River, Saw Mill River, and (the original) Cross County — predate even Robert Moses.
ANALYSIS: Congestion Pricing Will Lead to Better Air Quality in …
WEBAug 26, 2022 · Air quality and public health in the Bronx will receive a boost from congestion pricing, even under a toll scenario that diverts substantial truck traffic from midtown onto bridges and highways north of the Manhattan core.. Manhattan air quality improves the most, not surprisingly, because that borough is projected to experience the biggest drop in vehicular traffic once cars and trucks are ...
Audit: DOT Cameras Miss Millions of Speeding Drivers
WEBJan 22, 2024 · The Lander audit says the number is around 320,000 incidents in the first half of 2023. The good news is that Lander's audit confirmed that speed camera "work to reduce speeding and crashes." Both the number of tickets issued and the number of crashes drop dramatically at locations with speed cameras, Lander's team found.