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City Adds to ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Areas of Broadway
WEBOct 25, 2021 · The pedestrianized plaza does not allow drivers access at all. The six blocks — which add to pedestrian-friendly areas of Times, Herald, Madison and Union squares installed during the Bloomberg administration — are a far cry from the vision of safe-streets activists, who have advocated for a car-free Broadway from Morningside Heights on the ...
City Launches Long-Awaited Containerized Residential Trash Pilot
WEBDec 13, 2022 · New York City has struggled to get its act together to collect trash from its 8.8 million residents without leaving the rubbish to sit out in the open, providing a terrible experience for pedestrians, but a great life for rats. Other cities around the globe, including similarly dense municipalities like Paris, have figured out solutions.
New York’s High Court Rules in Favor of Protecting Cyclists ...
WEBNov 24, 2023 · They’re taking a victory lap. The highest court in New York this week decided that bicyclists should have the same protection as car drivers against unlawful search and seizure — a decision that connects to the city’s long history of cops targeting people of color who get around by bike.. The case dates back to 2014, when Lance Rodriguez, who had been riding a beach cruiser bicycle in ...
A Dozen-Plus Electeds Back QueensLink Subway Expansion
WEBAug 5, 2022 · Queens get the transit. Elected officials from multiple levels of government in Queens joined forces on Thursday in a letter asking for a big bag of money to study reactivating an old transit right of way in southeast Queens, the latest effort to move the project known as QueensLink off the conceptual page and into reality.. The letter, which was signed by 15 elected officials and 2 community ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
What a Surprise: NYPD Breaks Law By Not Investigating Placard …
WEBOct 2, 2020 · The city's latest failure to crack down on illegal placard parking can be fully laid on the NYPD, which has broken the law by not evaluating placard abuse hotspots and turning the evidence over to the Department of Investigation, as required by Local Law 6, which passed last year. The law mandated that the NYPD would submit monthly reports to ...
State Legislators Say They Never Gave Hochul the Power to Pause ...
WEBAug 23, 2024 · A quartet of current and former state legislators waded into the lawsuit against Gridlock Gov. Hochul's "pause" of congestion pricing this week — telling the judge overseeing the case that the legislature never gave her or any governor the power to do away with the traffic toll.. If lawmakers had wanted to give Hochul or any other governor the power to call off the toll, they would have ...
Eyes on the Street: Why Pedestrian Islands Belong at More NYC ...
WEBOct 23, 2014 · Here’s a reminder of why the city can’t roll out street design changes fast enough. Last night, a driver turning left through the crosswalk from West 97th Street to West End Avenue struck a bollard on a pedestrian island that had been installed just days before. According to West Side Rag, the woman told police that she did […]
‘Express Bike Lane’ Coming Soon to First Ave. Tunnel
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The First Avenue tunnel is slated to become an express bike lane. It's back — and it's never going away again. Cyclists will not only soon be able to ride through the tunnel below First Avenue outside the United Nations — as they have for the past five years during the annual confab of world leaders — but the protected bike path in the ...
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