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Riverdale Rumble: Bronx Panel Rejects DOT Road Diet Plan for Super-Wide Avenue
The majority on the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Bronx Community Board 8 objected to the DOT's proposed .75-mile-long "road diet," which would provide a treatment similar to the one it successfully installed across the Bronx on Morris Park Avenue.
April 1, 2022
Friday’s Headlines: ‘Mr. Barkan Goes to Washington’ Edition
A noted writer (and putative urbanist) takes a pass on taking Amtrak to D.C. Plus other real news on April Fool's Day.
April 1, 2022
Riverdale Avenue Rumble: Bronx Pol Dinowitz Objects to DOT’s Move on ‘Road Diet’
A Bronx Council member is fighting a city proposal to calm traffic on an overwide, dangerous road in the northwest part of the borough — a proposal that has drawn support from a progressive candidate for state Senate.
March 25, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: Exclusive News Edition
The big story yesterday was the hiring of Bostonian Richard Davey as the first permanent president of New York City Transit since disgraced former Gov. Cuomo ran Andy Byford out of town. Plus other news.
March 24, 2022
OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air
Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.
March 21, 2022
About That Safety Crackdown: NYPD Conducts Yet Another Tiny Enforcement Push
Mayor Adams's sole safe streets announcement so far in his administration — a promise to protect pedestrians with a "relentless" effort by the NYPD — is just the same old fake crackdown.
March 21, 2022
Two More Queens Pedestrians are Killed By Drivers (Neither of Whom Has Been Charged)
A 75-year-old woman was backed over on Tuesday night and a Flushing senior died of wounds incurred last week on Northern Boulevard.
March 16, 2022
Media Reminds Us of Pete Alonso’s Great Stats — But Not the Deadly Stats of Road Violence
In Hillsborough County, there were 28,014 crashes in 2021, resulting in 18,965 injuries and 271 deaths — a staggeringly high number. But no one reported that.
March 14, 2022
Another Pedestrian — This Time a Kid — is Badly Wounded by a Driver in Bloody Year
A 12-year-old girl was run down and critically injured by the driver of a luxury sedan on Thursday — and the driver was not charged, police said.
March 11, 2022
BEHIND THE NUMBERS: Road Violence is Soaring Under Mayor Adams
The violence on New York City streets is even worse than you thought.
March 10, 2022
