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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 …
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.
DENIED: Hochul Fails in Bid to Toss Pro-Congestion Pricing Suits …
Sep 27, 2024 · Dismiss this! Justice Arthur Engoron. A State Supreme Court judge refused to toss a pair of lawsuits seeking to overturn Gov. Hochul's congestion pricing pause on Friday, paving the way for advocates to make their actual case that the governor acted illegally when she axed the traffic toll in June.. Justice Arthur Engoron announced from the bench that he was denying a motion to dismiss the ...
City Adds to ‘Pedestrian-Friendly’ Areas of Broadway
Oct 25, 2021 · 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 Upper West Side to Houston Street on the Lower East Side.
DOT Announces Multi-Agency Study to 'Reimagine' the Cross …
May 31, 2022 · Imagine there's no highway. It's easy if you try. The city Department of Transportation has announced a big-time multi-agency effort to "re-imagine" the Cross Bronx Expressway, with the help of the state Department of Transportation, the city Planning Department and (wait for it) the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.The effort to possibly send the hated highway straight to hell ...
TRASH CITY: Here’s Why New York is So Filthy
Mar 22, 2022 · It wasn’t quite 4 p.m. on a recent Friday afternoon, but the rats on Beaver Street were having the Early Bird Special. “Every single time I’m on this block, it’s like this,” Ali Marconi, a Financial District resident, told Streetsblog, as vermin darted in and out of the black plastic buffet put out by the luxury residential building 63 Wall Street.
Queens Blvd. Gets Beaucoup Biden Bucks - Streetsblog New York …
Dec 14, 2023 · One of the city's biggest projects is now also one of the Biden Administration's biggest. The redesign of Queens Boulevard — an epic, decade-long struggle to add a bike lane to a roadway once known as the Boulevard of Death — was the top recipient this week of federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grants, nabbing $29.75 million from a pot of close to $890 million spent on 620 projects ...
Red Hook Push for Bus to Manhattan Grows as MTA Eyes ‘Options’
May 31, 2024 · The MTA's draft plan to overhaul the Brooklyn bus network from late 2022 proposed two new routes in Red Hook — neither of them connected to Manhattan. But the authority expects traffic in the congestion toll zone below 60th Street to drop by as much as one-fifth when the charge goes live on June 30. More mass transit would further help ...
'Not Acceptable': Uptown Greenway to Close For 6 Months …
Sep 23, 2024 · 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. The agency will shutter the popular Hudson River Greenway between W ...