Safe Streets Advocates to Mayor: We’re Just Waiting For Your Signature
Mayor de Blasio is suddenly backing a street redesign bill he has long opposed. Why? He has no choice.
May 30, 2019
Shared Motor Scooter Company Revel to Expand Into Brooklyn and Queens
They're not mopeds, but Revel's electric mini-motorcycles are expanding their footprint.
May 29, 2019
Private Carting Company Whose Employee Killed a Man Last Week Has a History of Reckless Driving
The private sanitation company whose driver killed one motorcycle rider and injured another in Jamaica last week has racked up more serious moving violations than it has trucks in its fleet.
May 29, 2019
Construction Firms Must Create Safe Detour For Cyclists — Or Have Their Permits Revoked
Manhattan Council Member Carlina Rivera's bill would require construction companies to provide safe detours for cyclists, instead of spitting them out into lanes of speeding traffic.
May 29, 2019
Cyclists Deserve Their Own Lane During Fleet Week, Like They Had in 2003
It’s simple: close a lane of car travel on the West Side Highway.
May 23, 2019
Experts: Exempting Yellow Taxis From Congestion Pricing Won’t Help Cabbies
“The proposed solution does not match the problem,” said one expert.
May 22, 2019
Private Sanitation Driver Fatally Backs Into Motorcycle Rider in Queens
The driver of the Boro Wide Recycling garbage truck was improperly backing up onto 157th Street from the westbound lane of Liberty Avenue when it struck the motorcycle — yet no tickets were issued and no arrests were made.
May 21, 2019
Whew! Sen. John Liu’s Bill to Criminalize Walking Is Likely DOA
An upstate lawmaker appears ready to stop a bill that no real New Yorker would ever have introduced — Queens Senator John Liu's absurd bill to empower the NYPD to write tickets to "distracted" pedestrians.
May 20, 2019
NYPD is Quick to Blame Latest Cyclist Victim For His Own Death
A cyclist who was hit last week in Crown Heights has died of his injuries — the 10th cyclist to be killed this year — and police blamed him for his own death.
May 16, 2019
NYPD Says ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’ To Council Bid to Improve Collision Investigation Squad
Police Commissioner James O’Neill doesn’t want more money to investigate road collisions.
May 15, 2019