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#StuckAtDOT: Whatever Happened to Those Awesome Rule Changes for Cyclists?
The Department of Transportation has not moved forward with a series of ambitious rule changes that would have improved cycling and encouraged more people to get around on two wheels, Streetsblog has learned.
November 25, 2022
Wednesday’s Headlines: Winter Wonderland Edition
We had already read about it in Time Out New York's rare scoop last week, but the Adams administration released the details of its Fifth Avenue holiday open street plan yesterday — and it puts the "wonderful" in the "most wonderful time of the year." Plus other news.
November 23, 2022
Tuesday’s Headlines: Signs Say No Edition
Remember how we were musing last week about the spate of unauthorized "No Motor Vehicle" signs that had sprung up on so many protected bike lanes in town? Well, we have answers ... plus all the other news of the day!
November 22, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: Day of Remembrance (In More Ways Than One) Edition
One day, the city mourns its traffic victims. The next day, an Upper West Side community board moves to create more of them. Plus all the other news.
November 21, 2022
A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims
There are almost no other specific memorials for one of the world's leading causes of preventable death: car crashes, which kill roughly 1.2 million people annually.
November 18, 2022
Video Shows Cops Not Even Trying to Save Man they Struck on Eastern Parkway: Family
Where was their courtesy? Where was their professionalism? Where was their respect for this man? He wasn't dirty. He wasn't no bum off the street. That's my brother," the victim's sister said on Monday.
November 16, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: The Signs Say Edition
Elections always remind us that complaining about problems is easy, but fixing them is hard. Plus other news.
November 14, 2022
Speed Camera Update: More People Being Caught (But Fewer During the Day)
Overall tickets are up about 67 percent thanks to those overnight and weekend hours, but they're down about 15 percent in the 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours, evidence that drivers do indeed stop speeding after getting one or two automated tickets.
November 14, 2022
#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City
A Brooklyn City Council member has a simple question for the Department of Transportation: Why does it take years and years (and sometimes years and years and years) to put in a simple speed bump?
November 11, 2022
DOT to Beautify Another Meatpacking District Street
The current overly wide 10th Avenue terminus will be transformed with shared-street markings, tables, chairs, a bike lane and new pedestrian zones and crosswalks to get walkers from the area around the Whitney Museum to the Hudson River Greenway.
November 9, 2022
