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DOT Lays Out a Strategy to Make Left Turns Less Dangerous
DOT will be ramping up the use of intersection treatments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from left-turning drivers, the agency announced today. The initiative is paired with a DOT study, "Don't Cut Corners" [PDF], that illustrates the disproportionate danger of left turns. Mayor de Blasio had announced in January that reducing the risk of left turns would be a focus of his administration's Vision Zero agenda this year.
August 3, 2016
Wider Sidewalks Coming to Flushing’s Crowded Main Street
Main Street in Flushing gets more foot traffic than anywhere else in New York after Times Square, but its sidewalks are too narrow to handle all those people. So later this month, the city will begin expanding the sidewalks on four blocks of Main Street, Council Member Peter Koo, DOT, and the Department of Design and Construction announced this afternoon.
July 19, 2016
Basic Pedestrian Upgrades Coming to Conduit Blvd, But No Bike Infrastructure
Last month, DOT revealed its plan to make Conduit Boulevard less of a barrier between neighborhoods near the southeast Brooklyn-Queens border [PDF]. With better, more frequent pedestrian crossings, the project should make it easier for residents to get from one side of Conduit to the other, but the design doesn't include any bike infrastructure and leaves much of the high-speed geometry of the street intact.
July 15, 2016
Victim-Blaming Commences After Bruckner Boulevard Claims Another Life
A motorist struck and killed a man last night on Bruckner Boulevard, a Bronx street designed to facilitate speeding and one of the borough's most dangerous places to walk.
July 11, 2016
U.S. Traffic Fatalities Rising Fast — Especially Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths
Traffic fatalities in America hit a seven-year high in 2015, with pedestrians and cyclists accounting for a disproportionate share of the alarming increase, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
July 1, 2016
Driver Fails to Yield and Kills 67-Year-Old Yuenei Wu in Midtown
A livery car driver turning left onto Eighth Avenue from 38th Street struck and killed 67-year-old Yuenei Wu yesterday afternoon. Police charged 39-year-old Edip Ozlemis for failing to yield to a pedestrian, an unclassified misdemeanor.
June 7, 2016
Google Patents “Flypaper” to Save Pedestrians By Sticking Them to Car Hoods
The minds at Google have come up with a novel idea to protect pedestrians in the event of a collision with the company's self-driving cars.
May 19, 2016
Ulrich Back on Board With Woodhaven SBS After DOT Waters Down Turn Bans
DOT has halved the number of left-turn restrictions and cut about a mile of bus lanes from its plan to enhance bus service on Woodhaven Boulevard.
May 16, 2016
People Flock to the Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza for a Day
On Saturday, neighborhood residents got an eight-hour taste of the one-block plaza DOT has proposed near the Bushwick-Ridgewood border. Going by the turnout, a permanent plaza would be a hugely popular public space for the neighborhood.
May 2, 2016
Seaman Ave. Has a Bike Lane and Sharrows, But It’s Still a Speedway
The thermoplast is down on the new northbound Seaman Avenue bike lane -- but it's really a bike lane and sharrows. Unless DOT makes a bolder move and puts a protected bike lane next to Inwood Hill Park, not much is going to change on this important Upper Manhattan bike route
April 22, 2016