“A rendering of what Lafayette Avenue might look like with a protected bike lane” (via Streetsblog)
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27 January 2012
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8:40
Adding Neighborhood 20 MPH Zones Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
But if Park Slope gets a slow zone before Greenwood Heights, or if Greenwood Heights gets a slow zone before Park Slope, research suggests both neighborhoods will still be better off.
Streetsblog and the New Yorker are debunking the same bad assumptions this week. Whether it’s speeding in a car, or mugging, or selling bad investments, preventing a crime from happening does not mean it will just happen somewhere else.
Crime and traffic are not “like water”, as sometimes claimed. If you make speeding and robbery difficult, people will do less of those things.
Water has different properties.
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23 January 2012
One of the reasons I write this blog is because there are things that get under my skin, and I just need to answer them and get it out there. One of them is people who think they’ve got a wonderful pro-pedestrian solution that nobody’s thought of: pedestrian overpasses.
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10 December 2011
there was supposed to be a protected bike lane on Plaza Street but it was shelved, some believe, by the ‘the fallout from Prospect Park West and the political pushback.’
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1 December 2011
In other words, police officers made as many illegal U-turns on this block in a single hour as the number of summonses NYPD issued for illegal U-turns on the same stretch in the entire month of September
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28 November 2011
The FDR drive incident involved a drunk motorist traveling at speeds of up to 100 mph, yet you’ll find no chute anywhere along the East Side of Manhattan this week. You’ll also find zero NYPD officers educating motorists about the speed limit and safe driving practices.
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3 November 2011
This is the video that Brooklyn Spoke took in August showing the total absence of mayhem on the Manhattan Bridge, a few weeks before the fancy PSMs were rushed to the scene.
(Source: youtube.com)
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28 October 2011
NYPD says the driver was ‘likely unaware’ of the collision. For a crash that killed someone, this may be a thin reed on which to hang a defense, but it’s apparently enough for police and the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to consider the case closed.
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24 October 2011
No Charges Against Truck Driver Who Fatally Ran Over Cyclist In Williamsburg
The NYPD’s investigation into the fatal collision between a flatbed truck and a cyclist in East Williamsburg has come to a sadly familiar end. Investigators had been trying to track down the driver for several days after Mathieu Lefevre was killed at the intersection of Meserole Street and Morgan Avenue, just after midnight on Wednesday. After the accident, the truck was found legally parked and unattended a couple of blocks away on Scholes Street. The NYPD tells us they finally found the driver, and have concluded there was no criminality.
This is bullshit.
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21 October 2011
Local Pols to Hold Transportation Town Hall Wednesday Evening
State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and City Council Member Steve Levin will host a Transportation Town Hall meeting this coming Wednesday evening, October 26, from 7:30 to 8:30, at 55 Washington Street in DUMBO, Room 216.
I should really go to this.
