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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Huge Grant: Feds Send City $12M to Improve Post-Crash Analyses. Advocates have been seeking this for years: a single repository where the disparate findings from multiple agencies about road crashes will be stored and analyzed. Gersh Kuntzman. September 6, 2024. bus lanes.
The $68B Answer: The Next MTA Capital Plan Focuses On The …
WEB1 day ago · Huge chunks of the $68.4-billion 2025-2029 plan that was revealed on Wednesday morning are devoted to the decidedly unsexy work of shoring up aspects of the system riders take for granted. The plan includes $9 billion to fix "critical structures" like railroad bridges and tunnels, $7.8 billion to rebuild …
Mayor Adams Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Street Safety
WEBApr 23, 2022 · Mayor Adams on Saturday announced an historic nearly $1 billion investment towards funding the long-awaited Streets Master Plan, just days after dozens of advocates and pols rallied on the steps of City Hall to demand he spend what’s needed to create a safer, and more bike-, bus-, and pedestrian-friendly New York.. The City Council’s specific $3.1-billion, five-year budget ask apparently ...
Eyes on the Street: 'Daylighting' NYC Intersections Needs More …
WEBDec 5, 2023 · It's a concrete solution. Mayor Adams's announcement last week that he intended to eliminate parking spaces near 1,000 intersections a year to improve visibility and reduce crashes will fail unless his administration backs up the initiative with physical barriers to keep out cars, advocates and our own damn eyes say. “Driver’s know there’s almost no parking enforcement and they act ...
City Adds to ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Areas of Broadway
WEBOct 25, 2021 · The pedestrianized plaza does not allow drivers access at all. The six blocks — which add to pedestrian-friendly areas of Times, Herald, Madison and Union squares installed during the Bloomberg administration — are a far cry from the vision of safe-streets activists, who have advocated for a car-free Broadway from Morningside Heights on the ...
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WEBStreetsblog is a registered trademark (federal registration number 7,276,763) owned by Open Plans. Streetsblog NYC covers the five boroughs of New York and important transportation policy developments in Albany. Starting with our first scoop in 2006, which tallied up the rampant abuse of parking placards, we’ve helped set the agenda for local ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
OPINION: New Yorkers Deserve Trash-Free Sidewalks
WEB12:01 AM EST on November 26, 2021. An everyday scene: a New Yorker squeezed by a huge pile of trash. Incoming Council Member Erik Bottcher (inset) has a plan. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman. As New Yorkers hit the streets for the joy of seeing the season’s twinkling lights and festive store windows, we’re bound to encounter familiar sidewalk ...
Eyes on the Street: The Broadway Bridge Construction is a …
WEBDec 14, 2021 · The Broadway Bridge corridor — counted as the 10 blocks from West 218th to West 228th streets — is clearly a dangerous place. In the last five years (from December 2016 until this month) there have been nearly 300 crashes, injuring 11 cyclists, 31 pedestrians and 78 motorists, according to Crashmapper.
Adams: I’ll Bring Open Streets To Neighborhoods With Most ‘Urgent’ Need
WEBOct 13, 2021 · He's open to doing better. With the Department of Transportation defending its open streets program after a devastating new report on its shortcomings, presumptive mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that he'll bring the city's open streets program to neighborhoods that have been routinely left out of the vital safety and environmental improvement ...