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How Fire Departments Stopped Worrying and Embraced Safer Street Design
As Portland built out bike lanes and pedestrian safety measures, fears about slower response times did not materialize.
May 29, 2018
Study Links Rise of SUVs to the Pedestrian Safety Crisis
SUVs are designed for death. And they're dominating the U.S. auto market.
May 10, 2018
Reynoso: Business Integrity Commission “Incapable” of Regulating Private Trash Haulers
Council sanitation chair Reynoso and his colleagues want the BIC to revoke the operating license of Sanitation Salvage, which has been involved in two fatalities since November.
May 9, 2018
After 2 Deaths in 6 Months, Council Members Want Sanitation Salvage Trucks Off NYC Streets
The Business Integrity Commission has regulatory power over private waste carters, but has failed to hold Sanitation Salvage accountable for its abhorrent safety record.
May 8, 2018
NYC’s Private Trash Truck Mayhem Goes From Bad to Worse
The number of crashes in the city involving the 20 largest private trash truck operators nearly doubled in the two-year period ending February 28.
April 9, 2018
South Bronx to Cuomo: Don’t Cut Off Hunts Point From the Bronx River With Another Highway
State DOT nixed neighborhood advocates' preferred plan, which would have routed trucks bound for the Hunts Point Market away from the residential part of the neighborhood.
March 29, 2018
NYPD Rejects Request for Records on Hit-and-Run Killing of Neftaly Ramirez
As long as police and prosecutors refuse to disclose information about the death of Neftaly Ramirez, the public has no way to know how they determined not to press charges.
March 20, 2018
Help @illegal53NYC Shame NYPD Into Ridding City Streets of Trucks Designed for Highways
@illegal53NYC is doing for illegally oversized trucks what @placardabuse does for placard abuse -- drawing attention to a pervasive and dangerous traffic problem that City Hall and NYPD have not addressed in any meaningful way.
February 22, 2018
Phil Monfoletto Had Nine License Suspensions Before He Killed Kevin Flores. Why Did State DOT Let Him Drive an Oil Truck?
Neither state nor federal regulators have explained how Monfoletto's truck business remained in good standing despite his history of dangerous driving.
February 8, 2018
The Action Carting Driver Who Killed Neftaly Ramirez and Left the Scene Was Not Licensed to Drive the Truck
Yet it appears Mayor de Blasio won't let the company's horrendous safety record interfere with its city contracts. Meanwhile, a lawsuit brought by Ramirez's family alleges shoddy investigative work on the part of NYPD and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.
January 31, 2018
