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Assembly Member in Harlem Council Race Opposes ‘Sammy’s Law,’ More Bike Lanes
Assembly Member Inez Dickens said that she does not support lowering the speed limit.
June 20, 2023
With ‘Sammy’s Law’ Not in the State Budget, It’s Up to the City Council to Push It
Life-saving legislation that would allow New York City to set speed limits below 25 miles per hour failed to make it into this year's state budget, legislative leaders said — effectively kicking responsibility to the City Council.
May 1, 2023
Wednesday’s Headlines: Vindication Edition
Here's a criminal mischief update! Plus other news.
March 29, 2023
‘Major Victory’: Drivers Getting Nabbed With Fewer Speeding Tickets: City
The city’s speed cameras are spitting out less tickets to drivers than they were six months ago, Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said — and that's good.
March 17, 2023
City Hall: We Hear that People Want to Keep Three-Lane BQE (Really?!)
Some elected officials and locals are telling City Hall that they want to keep three travel lanes in each direction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a top city official said on Thursday — despite nearly two dozen area politicians who have called for no more than two lanes.
March 3, 2023
Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras
The problem of cars evading speed, red-light and bus-lane cameras with defaced or covered plates has gotten markedly worse — with more than 7 percent of plates that triggered automated enforcement cameras last summer proving to be unreadable.
February 13, 2023
Brooklyn Pols Demand the State ‘Come to the Table’ on the BQE
More than a dozen Brooklyn lawmakers said they don't want DOT's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway plan: It's the highway or the highway.
February 10, 2023
The State Has ‘No Plans’ to Redesign the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
State DOT has “no plans” to “redesign the state-owned portion of the BQE," spokesman Joseph Morrissey confirmed in an email to Streetsblog last week.
February 9, 2023
SAFETY LAST: DOT Under Fire to Finish Ninth Street Redesign after Sixth Fatality in 18 Years
The city is once again under fire for a death on a roadway that it failed to redesign for safety.
January 12, 2023
City Wins Biden Bucks to Begin the Process of Studying the Capping of the Cross Bronx Expwy
"There is no initiative that would do more to improve the public health of the Bronx [and] improve the air quality and life expectancy than the transformation of the Cross Bronx Expressway," Rep. Ritchie Torres said on Monday.
December 19, 2022
