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WEB6 days ago · 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.
Your Unanswered Questions on the Interborough Express, Answered
WEBJan 24, 2023 · It's full speed ahead on the Interborough Express, Gov. Hochul and the MTA's planned project to provide a new transit connection between Brooklyn to Queens.The transit project — which will use an existing right of way between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights that runs through Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Maspeth, is currently only used by freight rail — is slated to be part of the ...
'Jaywalking While Black': Final 2019 Numbers Show Race-Based …
WEBJan 27, 2020 · The final 2019 numbers for "jaywalking" summonses are in and ... the NYPD is still carrying out a racially suspect policy of ticketing black and Hispanic pedestrians.. Over the entire year, cops issued 90 percent of illegal walking tickets citywide to blacks and Hispanics, mirroring Streetsblog's findings for the first three-quarters of 2019 — an investigation that led to strong ...
Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to …
WEBJul 25, 2018 · Contrary to the story Uber, Lyft, and their peers like to tell, ride-hailing services are not reducing traffic in American cities. Nor will they, even if they meet their goals for converting solo passenger trips to shared rides, according to new research from transportation analyst Bruce Schaller.. While ride-hailing companies add options for people to get around without owning a personal car ...
First Look: The DOT Finally Has Plans For Its Queensboro Bridge ...
WEBApr 8, 2024 · The streets on both ends of the Queensboro Bridge will be remade into safer, people-first spaces as part of the long-awaited reopening of the span's south outer roadway that will finally give cyclists and pedestrians a separate path to walk and ride on.
BY THE NUMBERS: Car-Free Streets are Simply Safer, Data …
WEBJan 11, 2022 · There were 40 total reported crashes in 2019, By 2021, that dropped to 18, a decrease of 55 percent. Total injuries for the year dropped from 29 in 2019 to eight in 2021, a decrease of 72 percent. Those numbers follow — and improve upon — the pattern seen in the earliest days of the pandemic, when injuries fell by 85 percent and crashes ...
Queensboro Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Improvements Delayed a …
WEBFeb 3, 2022 · Cyclists and pedestrians will still have to share a single, narrow, two-way lane on the Queensboro Bridge for another two years, thanks to a delay in a larger bridge renovation project by the Department of Transportation, Streetsblog has learned. The DOT quietly released the news — namely, that the agency needs until the end of 2023 to ...
Residential-Parking Permits: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
WEBAug 20, 2019 · Today, owing to their conservative origins, most American residential-permit districts charge way too little. In Los Angeles, annual fees are $34 per car; in Chicago, $25; in San Francisco, $144; and in Washington, D.C., $35. Boston charges no fee, although its city council is weighing a proposal to charge $25 a year for the first car, $50 for ...
Eighth Ave. Road Diet Marches North, But Community Wants …
WEBAug 4, 2022 · The road diet is even more dramatic than previous phases in the Eighth Avenue slimdown. Making more room for pedestrians on Eighth Avenue has been an ongoing effort at the DOT. As recently as 2018, the city devoted six entire lanes to moving cars on the road. But in 2019, the DOT began a road diet mostly focused on the area between West 38th ...
Vision Zero Epicenters: 5 Dangerous Neighborhoods that Should …
WEBJan 3, 2022 · Vision Zero lost its way in 2021. Can Eric Adams get it back? Through Dec. 29, 120 pedestrians, 19 cyclists, 63 motorists or motor vehicle occupants, and 64 moped, motorcycle or scooter riders were killed — the most …