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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
OPINION: Use Speed Cameras to Change Drivers’ Behavior
Combined with other interventions, the devices could have an even greater role in traffic calming post-pandemic.
October 25, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: How to Fix Our Most Dangerous Roads
In urban areas, arterials make up just 15 percent of all roads but are where a whopping 67 percent of pedestrian deaths occur.
October 18, 2022
The Day I Was Hit By a Driver Changed My Life, And My City, Forever
Here at Streetsblog, we write a lot about car crashes — but when it comes to the impact they have on individuals and communities, it's best to hear from the victims themselves.
October 6, 2022
Business Grew After Controversial Bike Lane Installed, Data Show
It's a lesson for any community facing opposition from residents who claim bike lanes hurt business.
October 3, 2022
OPINION: To Defeat the New Electric Dodge Muscle Cars, Amp Up Sound Cameras
The Charger Daytona SRT Banshee is being pitched as a big, fat thumb in the eye of "authority." Well, authority needs to stick a thumb back.
September 28, 2022
SEE IT: Streetfilms Takes You to NYC’s All-Too-Rare, Car-Free School Streets
School zones don't have to be danger zones.
September 8, 2022
ANALYSIS: Can New York Mandate Speed Governors on New Cars?
Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.
But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way?
August 30, 2022
New Bill Would Mandate Speed Governors and Set Limits on Huge SUVs on NY Streets by 2024
Sen. Brad Hoylman introduces what he says is a first-in-the-nation effort to make active safety technology standard on new cars.
August 22, 2022
