Tragedy Times Two: Lev Fruchter Has Now Lost Both Parents to Road Violence
First, Rachel Fruchter was killed by a reckless, uninsurable driver in Prospect Park in 1997. Then, Norman Fruchter was killed last month by a reckless uninsurable driver in Bay Ridge.
January 6, 2023
How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?
New York transportation officials are backing a bill that has been proposed more or less every year, yet never makes it out of committee. There has to be a better way.
December 23, 2022
A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims
It's a different memorial to a different holocaust.
November 18, 2022
#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City
A Brooklyn City Council member has a simple question for the Department of Transportation: Why does it take years and years (and sometimes years and years and years) to put in a simple speed bump?
November 11, 2022
Fed Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’
One of the Biden Administration's top road safety officials has come out in favor of legalizing the so-called "Idaho stop," which allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as mere stops signs.
October 20, 2022
3,000 out of 3,001 Americans Want to Decarbonize Transportation — But Will the GOP Do It?
By a roughly 3,000-to-1 ratio during the public comment period, Americans support a key Biden administration climate initiative.
October 17, 2022
Drivers (Mostly Men) Rely Way Too Much on Those Automated Driving Systems, Study Says
Toxic masculinity and automated driving systems seem to go hand in hand.
October 11, 2022
Highway Boondoggles, Part VII: Oregon’s Abernethy Insanity
In our final installment of our annual Highway Boondoggles series with U.S. PIRG., we look at bridge widening that circumvented the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Impact Assessment process.
September 21, 2022
Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure bill and will hand out $7.5 billion in funding for the coming EV charging network.
September 20, 2022
Electric Cars Cause More Damage than Gas Cars, Says Big Insurance Co.
"A look at the accident statistics shows that drivers of electric cars cause 50 percent more collisions with damage to their own vehicles than those of conventional combustion engines," the insurance giant AXA said.
September 9, 2022
