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Gersh Kuntzman

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Is this end of criminal mischief?
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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.
Cyclist Sarah Schick was killed in an area known to the DOT to be dangerous. Photo: Henry Beers Shenk
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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.
Both of Lev Fruchter's parents (Norman, inset, and Rachel) have been killed by reckless drivers. Main photo: Peter Meitzler
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Tragedy Times Two: Lev Fruchter Has Now Lost Both Parents to Road Violence

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 6, 2023 | No Comments
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.
NYPD Transportation Bureau Chief Kim Royster (left) met with the family of Andrew McMorris, who was killed by a drunk driver in 2018, at a press conference about reducing drunk driving (inset). Photos: Gersh Kuntzman
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How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 3, 2023 | 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.
Council Member Rita Joseph wants more speed bumps. But they take years. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman
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#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 14, 2022 | No Comments
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?
Photo illustration
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Fed Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments
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.
Photo: Ruben de Rijcke
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3000 out of 3001 Americans Want to Decarbonize Transportation — But Will the GOP Do It?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 17, 2022 | No Comments
By a roughly 3,000-to-1 ratio during the public comment period, Americans support a key Biden administration climate initiative.
Photo: Michael Buholzer/AXA
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CRASH TEST: Electric Cars are More Dangerous than Conventional Cars, Says Global Insurance Company

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 12, 2022 | No Comments
"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.
Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton went to Paris ... and all you got was his insightful Streetfilms video. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.
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STREETFILMS: The Peaceful Pedestrian Plazas of Paris … And What They Can Teach Us

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 29, 2022 | No Comments
Pedestrianization: It's the past — and the future — of cities.
Images of the Postal Service's "next generation" trucks often Photoshop out that pernicious tailpipe — so we're putting it back. Photo: Oshkosh Defense with help from the Streetsblog Graphic Desk
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Return to Sender: Postal Service Backtracks on Gas-Powered Truck Purchase

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 21, 2022 | No Comments
The United States Postal Service — under fire from environmental groups — is no longer moving ahead with a plan to almost entirely replace its aging delivery fleet with gas-fueled trucks.
The Rue de Rivoli with Clarence Eckerson Jr.
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STREETFILMS: Regardez Ces Pistes Impressionnantes Cyclables Parisiennes!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 20, 2022 | No Comments
Clarence Eckerson of our sister site, Streetfilms, went to Paris ... and all you got was a stunning three-minute video that reminds you how shitty New York City bike lanes compared to the City of Light.
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Drunk Drivers Who Kill Could Be Paying for their Crime for Almost 20 Years

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 11, 2022 | No Comments
New York's legislature is only following Tennessee and other states that are seeking to make drunk drivers pay child support if their actions orphan a child.
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