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Modified 'Jaywalking' Repeal Passes Council - Streetsblog New …
Sep 26, 2024 · The Council on Thursday passed a bill to legalize walking into the street outside of crosswalks, sometimes known as "jaywalking," two weeks after holding off on the legislation due to advocates raising concerns that it put too much blame on pedestrians.. The lawmaker behind the proposal said that the bill still addresses the racist policing of …
Seniors to City: Fix Canal Street Now!
Oct 4, 2024 · Canal Street is home to a higher percentage of residents aged 65 and older, as well as children, compared to citywide averages. The street lacks adequate shade, exacerbating the health risks posed by air pollution from increasing car traffic. Canal Street has been a DOT Vision Zero Priority Corridor since 2015, yet it remains Manhattan's most ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
Jun 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 them in low-income communities of color.
Room for Improvement: What New York’s Subway System Can …
Oct 3, 2024 · MTA Room for Improvement: What New York’s Subway System Can Learn from Cities Around the World. New York’s subway was once an international model of modernity.
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4 days ago · November 4, 2024. Affordable Housing. HOUSING CRISIS: Council Pushes Mayor to Create ‘City Of Yes …. And’. The speaker of the City Council is demanding that Mayor Adams's signature housing initiative create more affordable units — but it's unclear if she backs the key proposal that undergirds the plan: ending mandatory parking.
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Streetsblog 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 ...
The Bronx is Up: DOT Proposes Protected Bike Lane Under the …
May 18, 2021 · Now that’s a vision. A Department of Transportation plan to repurpose dangerous and ambiguous road space underneath a stretch of elevated train tracks in the Bronx into a protected bike lane should become the gold standard for the hundreds of miles of roads under elevated highways, rail lines and bridges across New York City, advocates say.. Last month, the DOT unveiled designs to Bronx ...
City Adds to ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Areas of Broadway
Oct 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 ...
'Not Acceptable': Uptown Greenway to Close For 6 Months …
Sep 23, 2024 · Safety last. The Parks Department will close off a mile-and-a-half stretch of the busiest bike path in America for six months, sending cyclists onto dangerous streets of the Upper West Side, with astoundingly little warning, starting today.