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Another Truck Driver Fatally Backs Over Another Pedestrian — And is Not Charged
A senior citizen was killed by a truck driver who backed over him on First Avenue on Tuesday morning — the second such incident in the same day and the second time the driver was not initially charged.
May 21, 2019
DOT Says It Will Fill Jay Street Bike Lane Gaps This Year
Manhattan Bridge-bound commuters: Your long unprotected nightmare is (almost) over.
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
The Postal Service Doesn’t Want You To Know Where Its Worst Drivers Are
The United States Postal Service Inspector General won't release the locations where its auditors found egregious fleet safety violations, citing a rule protecting "trade secrets ... which, under good business practice, would not be publicly disclosed."
May 15, 2019
Pedestrian Killed by Dump Truck Driver As De Blasio’s Commitment to Vision Zero is Questioned
Open season on the innocent continues.
May 12, 2019
Postal Service Hasn’t Even Called Family Whose Relative Was Killed By a USPS Driver
The United States Postal Service drives around in untrackable, plate-less vehicles — prompting more calls for increased oversight of the unaccountable federal agency.
May 10, 2019
Five More Manhattan Precincts are Filled with S-Cop-Laws
Our ongoing investigation into recklessly driving cops continues — with more officers whose cars would be impounded under a Council bill to crack down on repeat offenders.
May 8, 2019
Life on the Street: Delivery Worker Eduardo Perez Has No Use For de Blasio’s E-Bike Crackdown
For too long, delivery workers who ride e-bikes have been demonized. But hearing their stories makes it clear that New York City is definitely not the "fairest big city in America," as Mayor de Blasio claims.
May 7, 2019
Grieving Brooklyn Family Rails at Postal Service ‘Killers’
What is to be done about unaccountable United States Postal Service drivers, whose trucks lack license plates?
May 6, 2019
STOP RIGHT THERE: Sorry, But A Traffic Light Wouldn’t Have Saved Emur Shavkator
Why would DOT ignore Council Member Mark Treyger's pleas for a traffic light at the deadly intersection? Treyger himself has a good answer: because traffic lights encourage speeding!
May 3, 2019
