The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Janice Brown was thrown from the car she was riding in when the driver, speeding and allegedly drunk, hit a barrier on the off-ramp [...]
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Paul Steely White Daily News Op-Ed: Bike-Share Naysayers Will Be Proven Wrong Soon Enough NY1 Call-In Show Talks Bike-Share Two Nights In a Row, Featuring Our Own Ben Fried on Night 2 (1, 2) Driver With Learner’s Permit Backs Onto Park Slope Sidewalk, Injuring 3 Children (Post) For the Daily News, Even a Drunk Driving Crash That Injured Paper’s Reporter [...]
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A Sheepshead Bay driver who ran a red light, jumped a curb and struck three people, killing one, has not been charged criminally by NYPD or Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. The mother and fiancé of Yuliya Hermanska. Photo: Daily News Yuliya Hermanska, 27, died from her injuries a week after the March 23 crash, according to [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/13/hynes-no-charges-for-curb-jumper-who-blew-red-and-killed-yuliya-hermanska/
Citi Bike isn't enough of an adrenaline rush for Simone Weichselbaum. This bodes well for its success. Photos: Daily News (left, right) Daily News reporter Simone Weichselbaum likes her bikes light and fast. The self-proclaimed “proud bike snob who is rarely without her SE Draft steel-frame fixie” said in 2009 that “biking here can be a death [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/13/citi-bike-is-not-a-fixie-and-most-people-will-be-happy-with-that/
Hynes: No Criminal Charges for Curb-Jumper Who Ran Red Light and Killed Yuliya Hermanska (News) Driver Who Killed Roxana Sorina Buta in Union Square Crosswalk Cleared of Failure to Yield (Post) Queens Driver Speeding at 100 MPH Injures 10; Charged With Reckless Endangerment (WNBC, News) Council Member Eugene Talks Coney Island Avenue Traffic Calming (Ditmas Park Corner) Lisa Sladkus Steps [...]
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NYC Set to Launch the Gold Standard of Bike-Share as Electeds Count Parking Spots (NYT, NY1) CB 6 Endorses Sackett St. Bike Lane, Union St. Corral; Rejects Columbia St. Parking (BK Paper, DNA) Video: Cyclist Harassed by Motorist and Mob of Bystanders in Williamsburg (Animal) NYPD Allows Civilian Complaint Review Board to Prosecute Officers Accused of Misconduct (News) DOE to [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/10/todays-headlines-1633/
Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota, on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show yesterday, said that while he didn’t “know this for a fact,” he views the bike-share program as an example of failed agency coordination in the Bloomberg administration, because he’d read press reports that people were complaining about new bike-share stations potentially impeding emergency response. Despite [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/03/fdny-we-havent-had-any-issues-with-bike-share-locations/
With bike-share stations hitting the streets but the launch still a few weeks away, there’s a lot of misinformed speculation floating around about Citi Bike. A favorite tactic of the bike-share opposition is to conjure visions of chaos and “hell on wheels” after the system launches, as the Daily News did in a recent opinion [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/01/bike-share-has-a-great-safety-record-in-cities-more-dangerous-than-nyc/
As any good policy wonk knows, certain activities effectively force people who only bear the costs of that activity to subsidize the beneficiaries. To use the classic contemporary example, fossil fuel polluters receive billions in tax breaks, but pay nothing for the climate change-inducing carbon that they emit. The same problem applies to private motoring, the [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/30/why-motorists-should-pay-for-crash-investigations/
Curb space in front of 99 Bank Street then ... You have to hand it to residents of 99 Bank Street. The lawsuit to have a bike-share station removed from the street in front of their West Village building is a textbook example of reactionary NIMBYism. The suit, which has already been rejected in court, claims the [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/30/reality-check-bike-share-station-takes-up-less-space-than-parked-cars/
NYPD has reportedly changed its story about what happened to Tamon Robinson, the man who suffered fatal injuries when he was chased by officers in a police cruiser through a housing complex in Brooklyn. Whereas witnesses said police ran Robinson over, NYPD now claims the victim killed himself by running into the police cruiser, which [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/22/nypd-pedestrian-killed-himself-by-running-into-stopped-police-cruiser/
This is how the Times of London editorializes about bike safety. So yesterday the Daily News published an opinion piece on bike-share that framed it not as a new option for New Yorkers to get around, but as another tense, dangerous showdown in the eternal confrontation between bikes and cars. Yawn. Of course, the fact that bike-share systems [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/18/what-it-looks-like-when-a-newspaper-actually-cares-about-safe-streets/
Manhattan Community Board 6 has adopted a resolution in support of a state law to bring back flashing blue lights on Select Bus Service buses. The reso also urges the MTA to explore options to restore the lights in lieu of legislative action. A bus at the launch event for the first Select Bus Service line, [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/17/manhattan-cb-6-urges-mta-to-restore-blue-lights-to-select-bus-service/
Bike-Share: Dailies Play It Straight, Mostly (NYT, Post, News, WSJ) Vacca and Liu Issue Scare Statements (AMNY); CapNY Critiques Presser More Signed Up for Citi Bike Yesterday Than Pre-Rollout CaBi Saw in a Month (TransNat) Advance Bummed That Staten Island Not Mentioned in Expansion Plans Pedestrian Kaman Brummond, 26, Killed in Queens; Driver Taken Into Custody (DNA, AP) Advance: Bloomberg’s Jersey 7 [...]
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In Daily News Interview, Prendergast Prepares MTA Riders for Fare Hikes and Service Disruptions Gelinas: Quinn’s MTA Proposal Ignores Rising Costs and How to Pay The Bill (Post) Midtown Hit-And-Run Driver Injures Pedestrian, Crashes Into Crane During Escape (Post) Schumer: East River Ferry Expansion Will Get $1 Billion From Feds (Times Ledger) CB 1 Supports Williamsburg Plazas and Bike Corrals (Bklyn [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/15/todays-headlines-1614/
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Denim McLean, 2, died of injuries from a crash in East Flatbush that injured 11 others. His mother remains in a coma. The driver [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/12/the-weekly-carnage-192/
Today Governor Andrew Cuomo named Tom Prendergast Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Prendergast had been serving as interim executive director of the agency for more than three months, since Joseph Lhota departed at the end of last year to run for mayor. Prendergast, like previous MTA chiefs Lee Sander and Jay Walder, brings deep experience [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/12/cuomo-names-tom-prendergast-chairman-and-ceo-of-mta/
Denim McLean, the toddler who was one of 10 people struck by a curb-jumping motorist in East Flatbush last month, died from his injuries. NYPD had a litany of excuses, but no charges, for the curb-jumping driver who killed 2-year-old Denim McLean. Photo via Daily NewsOther than driver speed, it’s still not clear what caused the [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/08/immune-from-prosecution-curb-jumping-nyc-motorists-claim-more-victims/
Cuomo Team Mulls Ouster of Shelly Silver, “Master of the Corrupt System” (Post) Lhota: Tolls Are Too High; State Should Give Bridges to City and Increase MTA Subsidy (2nd Ave Sagas) Between 2008 and 2010, Downstate NY Bike and Ped Injuries Cost $500 million in ER Bills Alone (MTR) Unlicensed Livery Driver Kills Taja Johnson, 21, Dragging Her [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/08/todays-headlines-1609/
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Irvin Gitlitz, 83, was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer driver at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues near the Barclays Center. The driver was not charged [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/05/the-weekly-carnage-191/
Feds Arrest Malcolm Smith and Dan Halloran for Alleged Bribery Plot (Post) Juan Gonzalez: Sources Say “City Hall” Knew Yankee Stadium Garage Deal Was a Loser Scott Stringer and Inez Dickens Reappoint Daniel Zweig to Manhattan CB 7 Bike New York, Cycling Education Provider, Sues City Over $900,000 NYPD Parade Fee (NYT, WSJ) Pedestrian in Cardiac Arrest on Fourth Ave (Bklyn Paper); [...]
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A motorist jumped the curb and slammed into a bus stop and scaffolding in East Flatbush on Saturday, striking up to 10 pedestrians. Four people were hospitalized in critical condition, including a woman and her young son. According to the Post, Denim McLean, whose age has been reported as 2 and 3, is brain dead. Within [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/01/nypd-no-charges-for-driver-who-hit-10-people-leaving-boy-brain-dead/
It’s no joke — Jeff Klein is taking up the cause of NYC speed cameras in the State Senate. Photo: Daily News The Daily News reports that Klein, the Bronx Democrat who leads the Senate along with Republican Dean Skelos, will make the proposed speed camera demonstration program a priority in the remaining weeks of the current [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/01/senate-co-leader-jeff-klein-wants-nyc-speed-cameras-approved-this-year/
It’s Official: Budget Passes Legislature and Heads to Cuomo’s Desk (News, WNYC) Daily News Blasts Simcha Felder and Marty Golden for Failure to Act on Speed Cameras Fung Wah Bus Was Even More Dangerous Than You Thought (TransNat, WSJ, DNA) The Old Penn Station Is Never Coming Back and Moynihan Station Is No Great Shakes (Post) DCP Shows Off [...]
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Golden Plays Dumb on Speed Cams; Klein Says Proposal Will Come Back This Year (Gotham Gazette) Cuomo Wanted Extra License Points for Speeders; Post Calls Compromise Fine Fee Increase a “Tax” Higher-Than-Expected Tax Revenues Provide $40 Million Boost to MTA Budget (News) Daily News Names Broadway in Upper Manhattan the “Corridor of Death” for Pedestrians Brooklyn Dethrones Staten Island as Fastest-Growing Borough, [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/27/todays-headlines-1601/
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Sook-Ja Kim, 63, was run down by a driver who veered off the road and onto a grassy median on Mosholu Parkway. No charges [...]
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Julio Acevedo, accused of the high-speed hit-and-run crash that killed Nachman and Raizel Glauber and their unborn child, was convicted in the court of opinion well before he was charged with manslaughter. But the failure of New York’s traffic justice system to keep Acevedo off the roads also allowed this tragedy to happen. The crash that killed the Glauber family [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/22/why-the-brooklyn-crash-that-killed-a-family-of-three-will-happen-again/
Electeds and advocates have until June to push speed camera legislation through Albany, as the proposed NYC demonstration program was not part of this year’s state budget deal. NYC's largest police union must be awfully pleased that Marty Golden has managed to block life-saving speed cameras, for now. Speed cameras were included in the State Assembly budget. The [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/21/thanks-to-marty-golden-life-saving-speed-cameras-not-in-state-budget/
State Budget “Conceptual Agreement” Does Not Include Speed Cams (Times Union, NY1) Move MSG to Fix Penn Station (NYT); Are We Shortchanging Transit for Aesthetics? (2nd Ave Sagas) 80 Days Later… Still No Word From Cuomo on MTA Pick (2nd Ave Sagas) Bloomberg Promises Veto of Quinn’s NYPD Inspector General Plan (NYT, Post, News, Gothamist) MTA Already Announced BusTime Rollout, [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/21/todays-headlines-1597/
Just hours after the City Council transportation committee unanimously passed a resolution asking Albany to take action, the Senate transportation committee advanced a bill, with an 18-1 vote, that would close a loophole in Hayley and Diego’s Law, with the goal of increased enforcement of the state’s careless driving law by police and district attorneys. The driver who killed Hayley Ng, [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/19/senate-committee-votes-to-close-loophole-in-careless-driving-law/
Steve Levin Says Marty Golden Is Single-Handedly Holding Up Speed Cameras (Bklyn Paper) Sensible Speed Cam Coverage From the Daily News; More on 2012 Fatals From TransNat Sook-Ja Kim, 63, Killed by Motorist on Mosholu Parkway; No Known Charges (DNA) Snow-Related or Speed-Related? One Dead, Seven Injured in Two Crashes Last Night (Post) Motorist Seriously Injures Teenager on Parkside; [...]
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State Senator Marty Golden and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association are working to keep life-saving speed enforcement cameras out of NYC. State Senator Marty Golden has a history of advocating for street safety, but opposes speed enforcement cameras, which are known to reduce crashes. A demonstration program with a handful of cameras was included in the State Assembly [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/18/brooklyn-senator-marty-golden-lobbies-against-life-saving-speed-cameras/
A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a truck driver in Red Hook Wednesday was the latest victim among six city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the last week. Lillian Cruz, hit by the driver of a tractor-trailer in Red Hook Wednesday, was at least the fifth pedestrian killed by a city motorist since Ray Kelly [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/14/no-charges-filed-as-six-nyc-pedestrians-killed-by-drivers-in-seven-days/
Something important is happening in Memphis, Tennessee. Commuting on one of the new protected bike lanes in Memphis. Photo: Memphis Daily News Out on the streets, the city has made progress on its plan to add 55 miles of bike lanes in two years, including the installation of some protected bike lanes. In addition, the state of [...]
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After efforts to enable speed cameras in New York City stalled in Albany the past few years, a new speed cam bill in the Assembly now has more than 30 sponsors, and introduction of a State Senate bill is expected soon. Automated speeding enforcement could help prevent crashes like the one that killed the Glauber family. Photo: [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/08/assembly-support-grows-for-nyc-speed-cameras-senate-bill-expected/
To read the Daily News analysis of 2012 summons data, you’d think NYPD has reckless driving completely under control. While the story throws out a lot of purportedly high figures, as usual the tabloid’s perspective is distorted by the windshield. NYPD may have stopped as few as 19,119 speeding drivers in city neighborhoods in 2012. Overall [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/07/theres-still-nothing-special-about-a-million-nypd-traffic-summonses/
A Queens senior struck by an alleged drunk driver last week was at least the fourth person to die in traffic in Eric Ulrich’s City Council district in the last six months. John Eberling. Photo via Daily News John Eberling, 76, was crossing Jamaica Avenue at 80th Street at approximately 4:30 on the afternoon of February 27 [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/06/john-eberling-76-latest-to-die-in-traffic-in-eric-ulrichs-council-district/
Advocates Totally Unimpressed By What the Mayoral Contenders Are Saying About Transit (Next City) Why Are the Candidates So Scared of Congestion Pricing? (CapNY) Satmar Hasidim Flood the Streets in Anguish Over Hit-and-Run Killing of Young Couple (ViN) NYPD Finally Cites Vehicle Speed as a Factor in Fatal Crash (NYT) …And the Daily News Editorial Board Finally Gets Worked [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/06/todays-headlines-1586/
It’s not for nothing that Michael Bloomberg is known as a champion of traffic safety. He has given millions to reduce global road deaths, and the life-saving innovations that have become the hallmark of his DOT are setting the pace for cities across the U.S. Making streets safe from reckless drivers is not a priority for [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/05/mike-bloombergs-nypd-traffic-enforcement-blind-spot/
You don't normally hear from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly or Manhattan DA Cy Vance when a child is killed by a motorist. In case you missed it, after years of bashing the city’s efforts to make walking and cycling less dangerous, the editors of the New York Post have decided they care about children’s safety. But [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/04/ray-kelly-cy-vance-and-the-post-are-why-nyc-kids-need-crossing-guards/
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Amar Diarrassouba, 6, was killed by a truck driver making a turn in East Harlem as he walked to school with his brother. NYPD, [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/01/the-weekly-carnage-187/
NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance are reportedly targeting a crossing guard for her supposed role in the death of 6-year-old Amar Diarrassouba, who was killed by a truck driver in East Harlem Thursday morning. Meanwhile, a local businessman and community board member who waged a campaign against pedestrian refuges and protected bike lanes [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/03/01/businessman-who-protested-1st-ave-safety-fixes-its-the-9-year-olds-fault/
A 7-year-old boy was killed by a truck driver this morning while walking to school in East Harlem. While no charges were filed against the driver, police and media are focused on the actions of a crossing guard, who was reportedly on a break when the crash occurred. Trucks over 55 feet are not allowed on [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/trucker-kills-7-year-old-in-east-harlem-nypd-and-media-eye-crossing-guard/
Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr. Clarence spotted this ad for a used car dealership in Monday’s Daily News. We can’t decide what we like best about it — the “trade in your shoes for cardiovascular disease” concept or the fact that it includes transit directions to the lot, in Long Island City. Either way, it’s refreshing to see [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/26/queens-auto-dealer-buy-a-car-get-heart-disease/
Left, Carlos Carlo, 65, of Rochdale, Queens, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Right, Carlo's granddaughter and daughter, Samantha and Melissa Martin. Right photo: Mona Rivera/1010 WINS Police are looking for the driver of a dark sedan who fled the scene after striking and killing Carlos Carlo, 65, as he tried to cross Rockaway Boulevard at [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/15/search-is-on-for-hit-and-run-driver-who-killed-carlos-carlo-65-in-queens/
A motorist who hit another vehicle, jumped the curb, struck a 90-year-old man and crashed into Saks Fifth Avenue was not driving recklessly, according to the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Dr. Mansoor Day, with the Rockettes. Photo via Daily News Mansoor Day was taking his regular walk Wednesday morning when Richard Moussi, driving a Ford [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/14/cy-vance-driver-who-jumped-the-curb-and-hit-senior-not-reckless/
The current DMV data archive page ... ... and the page as it appeared in June 2012. A sharp-eyed reader pointed out to us that the New York State DMV has stopped using the word “accident” in its annual statistical summaries. On its 2011 data web page, and in each of its 2011 reports, DMV refers to traffic [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/14/new-york-dmv-no-longer-describes-traffic-crashes-as-accidents/
NYPD Acknowledges Motorists as a Threat to Times Square Pedestrians (NYT) Motorcyclist Kills Himself, and Fortunately No One Else, in Central Park Crash (News) Driver Jumps Curb, Severs Woman’s Leg in East New York; “No Criminality Suspected” (Post) Think This David Greenfield Pet Peeve Bill Passes Before NYPD Crash Investigation Reforms? (News) Reader Reaction to Denis Hamill Drivel Mostly Negative (Spoke), [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/05/todays-headlines-1565/
Governor Cuomo’s state budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in discretionary spending for what one administration official has called “transformational projects.” It’s not clear what the loosely-defined pot of money will be used for, but so far the rhetoric indicates that Cuomo’s wide, transit-less, double-span Tappan Zee replacement bridge could be one recipient. Cuomo's budget [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/02/04/cuomos-flexible-budget-opens-wiggle-room-for-tappan-zee-financing/
Linden Boulevard at Rockaway Parkway, where pedestrian Gerald Green was killed by a motorist who "had the light." Image: Google Maps Three pedestrians were killed in separate crashes in Manhattan and Brooklyn last night. At around 7:50 p.m., 85-year-old Richard Griffin was on his way to visit a hospital patient, according to the Post, when he was [...]
www.streetsblog.org/2013/01/30/three-city-pedestrians-killed-in-five-hours-no-charges-filed/
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