Dramatic NYC Video Shows Why Plastic Posts Aren’t Enough
In a matter of months, Department of Design and Construction crews are supposed to start cutting up Queens Boulevard to build out the new bikeway and pedestrian improvements in permanent materials.
June 11, 2018
When We Treat Driving as a Fundamental Right, People Lose Their Lives
Officials and the media are questioning how Dorothy Bruns, who posed such an obvious and significant threat to public safety, was allowed to drive.
March 9, 2018
Carnage on New York Bike and Walking Path
If reports are correct, today's events would be the second time this year someone weaponized a motor vehicle to harm people in areas that are designated for New Yorkers to walk and bike separately from motorized traffic.
October 31, 2017
Yesterday’s Times Square Toll Was Terrible — But So Is a Typical Day of Traffic Violence
Given the high-profile location, the number of victims, and recent instances of people using vehicles to kill for ideology, it's understandable that yesterday's crash drew so much attention. But it's important to recognize that as terrible as the Times Square carnage was for a single incident, the same human toll occurs on a daily basis on NYC streets -- it's just dispersed across the city.
May 19, 2017
Speed Cameras Get Traction in Albany, But Marty Golden Promises to Obstruct
Members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany today to talk to state legislators about expanding NYC's automated speed enforcement program. After legislative leaders failed to advance a similar bill last year, this session it appears to have more traction.
May 15, 2017
NYC Also Struggling with Vision Zero Goals
Nineteen people died in New York City traffic in October, and 5,065 were injured, according to City Hall’s Vision Zero View crash data map.
November 30, 2016
What Mister Rogers Can Teach Us About Cities and NIMBYism
If you spend much time at community meetings, or you're a Leslie Knope fan, you know that public forums are often where open-mindedness goes to die.
March 8, 2016
Portland’s Bike-Share System Will Be an Interesting One to Watch
Next week, leaders in Portland will decide whether to move forward with a long-awaited bike-share system. Assuming it proceeds, Portland's bike-share is going to be an unusual one.
September 10, 2015
Suburban Atlanta Pol: Why Fund Transit When We Can Wait for Robo-Cars?
Gwinnett County is outpacing the Atlanta region in population growth. People who live there need transit to get to work, so much so that a recent poll found that 63 percent of likely voters were in favor of expanding MARTA service into the county.
September 9, 2015
How the Baltimore Red Line Could Rise Again
Today on the Network, Gerald Neily at Baltimore InnerSpace has the back story on the ill-fated Red Line, the rail project axed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.
September 8, 2015