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Ngozi Agbim, 73, Killed by Truck Driver at Crash-Prone Brooklyn Intersection
A senior was struck and killed by a truck driver at a crash-prone intersection in Brooklyn Monday.
June 25, 2013
Lander and Levin to DOT: A Safer Fourth Avenue Can’t Wait
City Council members Brad Lander and Steve Levin are urging NYC DOT to move forward with safety improvements for Fourth Avenue in Park Slope despite a vote against the proposal by Brooklyn Community Board 6.
June 18, 2013
Who Will Be the Second City Council Member to Sign Up for Bike-Share?
While current and former City Council transportation chairs James Vacca and John Liu reacted to bike-share with paranoia and fear, at least one council member was breaking out the credit card: Brooklyn's Brad Lander posted this tweet after signing up for a Citi Bike subscription yesterday.
April 16, 2013
Participatory Budgeting Offers Chance to Vote for Livable Streets Projects
Eight city council members have put a portion of their discretionary capital funds up for a vote as part of an exercise in participatory budgeting, which allows residents to decide how the money will be spent in their own neighborhoods. Votes in each district are approaching soon, and there's an opportunity to support livable streets projects.
March 18, 2013
Envisioning a Safer Fourth Avenue in Park Slope
Last night, DOT staff led a public workshop sponsored by Borough President Marty Markowitz's Fourth Avenue Task Force on how to improve 28 blocks of Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, between 15th Street and Pacific Street. DOT expects to have a draft plan for the avenue, one of the borough's most dangerous streets, within two months.
February 13, 2013
Council Members Call for Countdown Clocks at Bus Shelters
With BusTime set to expand citywide by the end of 2013, after launches in Staten Island, the Bronx and with pilot routes in Brooklyn and Manhattan, City Council members want to bring that technology to the streets -- or more specifically, the bus stop -- and are asking MTA, DOT and bus shelter operator Cemusa to help make it happen.
December 10, 2012
Council Members Propose Widening Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path
Council Members Brad Lander, Margaret Chin, and Stephen Levin -- along with advocates from Transportation Alternatives -- stood at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge this morning and put forth a proposal to expand the bridge's increasingly popular and exceedingly cramped bike and pedestrian path.
August 7, 2012
Lefevre Lawsuit Could Loosen NYPD Grip on Crash Information
The lawsuit filed by the family of Mathieu Lefevre against NYPD could change police procedure in the aftermath of fatal crashes, making it easier for grieving relatives to access crucial information.
March 27, 2012
Sadik-Khan Announces a Bike-Share Program That’s Big Enough to Succeed
Addressing a plaza full of reporters at Madison Square this afternoon, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced that the city is entering the next phase of its initiative to launch a public bike system stretching from the Upper West Side to Bedford Stuyvesant. The system will be run by Alta Bike Share and consist of about 600 stations with 10,000 bicycles, creating a network of comparable size and density to bike-share systems in cities like London and Paris.
September 14, 2011
Revealed: Council Member Tish James Tells Us Where She’s Been Biking
Streetsblog caught up with council members Tish James and Brad Lander for a few minutes at Saturday's "Building Bridges Bike Day" in Grand Army Plaza. James and Lander represent districts with some of the highest bicycling rates in the city, and they're getting some mileage out of the local bike infrastructure themselves: Lander arrived via bike, and James told us about one of her first ventures cycling the streets of her district.
August 15, 2011