Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Street Safety

The End of ‘Criminal Mischief’? A Reflection on Three Months of Field Work

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 27, 2023 | No Comments

For three months, our Streetsblog NYC editor has been exposing one of New York City's great scams: drivers (mostly cops) who deface their license plates to avoid speed-camera tickets. Well, it's time to hang up the paint pen and screwdriver.

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VISION ZERO 2022: More Dead Kids, More Crashes in Known Danger Zones

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments

More children died in crashes last year than in another other year in the Vision Zero era and crashes remain concentrated in areas that are known to be treacherous, according to a new report that crunches the numbers on the bloody 12 months of 2022.

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FACT CHECK: Many More Children Die from Road Violence than Gun Violence

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 28, 2022 | No Comments

KOMANOFF: Even with the awful 2020 spike in firearm deaths of U.S. youths, more than twice as many pre-teen children die from traffic violence as from gun violence.

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How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 23, 2022 | No Comments

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.

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Opinion: Against ‘Narc Urbanism’

By MJ Barnett | Dec 6, 2022 | No Comments

I believe that turning citizens against one another, even in the name of pedestrian safety, is a terrible mistake.

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A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments

It's a different memorial to a different holocaust.

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