Julianne Cuba
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Recent Posts
Four Reasons Not to Celebrate NHTSA’s New Fatality Numbers
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News dropped yesterday that the number of people dying in motor vehicles across the country went down slightly during the first half of 2022 — but don't start celebrating.
City Pilots Tech to Stop Gov’t Workers from Speeding
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Mayor Adams announces a way to get drivers of city-owned cars to slow down. But the pilot program will start in just 50 cars — 0.2 percent of the fleet.
OH, RATS! Experts Say Outdoor Dining is Not to Blame for the City’s Rodent Problem
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Critics of outdoor dining need to stop rat-cheting up the rhetoric on dining areas, experts say.
Chaos Reigned During GrubHub’s ‘Free Lunch’ Day in May, But Not on City Streets
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Once again, more evidence that e-bikes are not causing a "bloody battle" on New York City streets.
City Rolls Out Tiny Safety Plan for Senior Pedestrian-Death Crisis
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With more than 40,000 intersections across the city, it will take centuries to hit them at all.
Racial Justice Concerns Give Bump to Speed Cameras’ Popularity
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Researchers hope the results can increase support nationwide for swapping out cops for cameras, effective tools at keeping reckless drivers off the road and reducing fatal and injury-causing crashes.
Charge Cops Who Rammed Squad Cars into Protesters, Says Oversight Agency
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The cops who used their squad cars as deadly weapons to plow into a crowd of protesters during the Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020 should face disciplinary charges, the Civilian Complaint Review Board has declared.
Report: NYPD Shows Bias in Unlicensed-Driving Arrests
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And every single person arrested for "loitering" last year was Black. "It’s called serving the public," says NYPD spokesman John Miller.
New Law May Make School Zones Safer — But Why Does DOT Act So Slowly, Pols Ask
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City traffic "engineers" rely too heavily on federal guidelines that are biased against pedestrians. But a change may be on the way, at least for school zones.
Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Led Ongoing Boom
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Daily trips over the new eight-foot two-way bike path on the roadbed of the bridge’s Manhattan-bound side soared 27.2 percent across all of 2021, according to data compiled by Bike New York.
New York’s Speed Cameras Aren’t Racist — But Road Design Is
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Speed cameras are not disproportionately concentrated in low-income communities of color, despite a pervasive belief that the cameras are a money-making ploy that unfairly target Black and Brown neighborhoods, a Streetsblog analysis reveals.
Experts Discuss Subway Crime, Death, Homelessness
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"There will be a humanitarian crisis until we pay to solve it," said one activist.