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S.I. Advance: Capodanno Plagued By Speeding, So Get Rid of the Bike Lane
Earlier this week the Downtown Express injected some common sense into the public discussion about the value of bike lanes. With protected lanes on Ninth and Eighth Avenue now a valued safety improvement after facing some pushback at first, the paper predicted that initial complaints about the new lanes on the East Side will subside once people get used to them:
September 24, 2010
Parks Dept Allows Catering Hall to Fence Off Staten Island Greenway
The New York City Parks Department has come up with a striking new method to demean pedestrians and cyclists and disrupt the public right-of-way.
June 30, 2010
“Unsuspecting Drivers” Caught Zooming Past Staten Island School
Here's something you'd like to see more of from the NYPD: Cops cracking down on speeders near a school zone. Reports the Staten Island Advance:
September 21, 2009
Electeds, Local Media Wage War on Staten Island Cyclists
The recent motorist assault on a Staten Island cyclist is a symptom of anti-bike bias routinely displayed by local politicians and the Staten Island Advance, as chronicled on a web site encouraging action for safe streets.
August 25, 2009
State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island
One of the more common excuses we've been hearing from local pols during the current MTA crisis is that "service never improves," so why bother to fund transit? Set aside, for the moment, the fact that subways and buses are moving way more New Yorkers than they did just a few years ago. Courtesy of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, here's an interesting case study of service actually getting worse and why it happened.
April 8, 2009
MTA Blame Game: The View from Staten Island
Here's State Senator Andrew Lanza, a Staten Island Republican, explaining why he supports tolls on the East River bridges. For Staten Island drivers looking at a $3 hike in cash tolls to cross the Verrazano (or a $1.32 hike for locals with E-ZPass), the sight of other motorists getting a free pass into Manhattan must be a source of perpetual gall and resentment.
April 6, 2009
Two Staten Island Pedestrians Killed in Four Days; One Driver Charged
Two pedestrians were killed by drivers in Staten Island in separate incidents last week. Despite indications that both deaths were caused by careless driving -- one motorist struck an elderly man while making a left turn, the other jumped a curb and slammed into a man waiting for a bus -- only the driver involved in the latter crash faces charges, according to reports.
March 2, 2009
A Transit Miracle on 34th Street
NYC DOT is proposing to turn Manhattan's 34th Street into a river-to-river "transitway."
April 17, 2008
S.I. Ped Killings Cause Some to Ask, What’s an “Accident?”
Rev. Lyle Guttu, a fixture at Staten Island's Wagner College since 1972, was struck by an SUV in the West Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island last Saturday. He died Sunday evening.
December 21, 2007
Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing
"Walking is Transportation" blogger Dan Icolari has extensive coverage of last night's seventh and final Traffic Mitigation Commission hearing on Staten Island. He reports "a notable unanimity" among Staten Island's elected representatives. "Even South
Shore Republican Councilman Vincent Ignizio -- a reliable foe of
government whose salary is paid by government -- said that despite great
skepticism, he was determined to keep an open mind."
November 6, 2007