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Wanted: Strategy for Curtailing Monster SUVs
New York's 'shaming' campaign is a start, but activists should push for national pedestrian-safety standards and local car-free zones.
January 8, 2020
NY Finds that Car-Free Transitways Work
December 18, 2019
New City Cargo Bike Delivery Program is Perfect, Except…
The city's collaboration with delivery companies to use cargo bikes instead of behemoth trucks is an absolute good in a city mired in congestion, pollution and carnage. But...
December 6, 2019
UPDATE: E-Bikes Will Return to NYC This Winter
The Lyft-owned company originally promised that the bikes, removed in April, would be back by Dec. 21. That proved untrue.
November 22, 2019
SURPRISE! Federal Panel Seeks Mandatory Helmet Laws
A federal safety board issued a surprise recommendation for mandatory bike helmet laws in all 50 states — unanimously approving a last-minute resolution that had not been recommended by the board's own staff.
November 5, 2019
NYC Data: Speed Cameras Work. Full Stop
Crashes are down 10 percent, possibly became drivers are starting to change their behavior now that there are more cameras, and they're operating eight more hours per day.
October 18, 2019
Hearing the Disability Community In Vision Zero
New York DOT's chief accessibility specialist on the challenges and successes of inclusion.
October 11, 2019
Car-Free Busway is Frankly a Big Success
"The street looks better, it's nice," one customer at Joe's Pizza said. "It's ridiculous, I don't know any New Yorker who would take a cab just to get a slice of pizza."
October 9, 2019
‘Distracted Pedestrians’ is Not a Thing
Only 0.2 percent of pedestrian fatality reports blamed "electronic distraction," according to a new city report that was quietly issued late on Friday.
September 5, 2019
Online Driving Courses Add to Road Fears
New York lawmakers are making it easier for bad drivers to get licenses by allowing student drivers to take a questionable online safety course rather than the previously mandated five-hour, instructor-taught classroom session.
August 23, 2019
