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Karma will come for killer-driver koddler Heastie. Though not before more die b/c he prioritized his konference over kids.
BREAKING: The Assembly is out of session, without passing Sammy's Law — but lawmakers will return to Albany later this month, so there's still a chance: nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/06/…
Barring an 11:59 miracle, we're gonna need a plan to do big reputational damage to @carlheastie whenever a speeder runs over a NYC youngster. Count us in.
Sammy’s Law would give New York City local control of speed limits.
Despite support from a majority of NYC assemblymembers, the governor, and the mayor, @CarlHeastie refuses to bring the bill for a vote.
We are now 50 hours into our hunger strike and he still won’t explain why.
ALT Amy and Fabiola with sign showing they are 50 hours into their hunger strike
No end to the damage to lives and justice from U.S. "windshield perspective." NYT photo by @dustchambers. Pullquote from nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/po…
Our guerrilla campaigns against NYC traffic violence -- in 1996-99 & 2013-15 -- were borne from love of humans and abhorrence of cars, not from personal loss. If we had lost loved ones, the hatred we would feel right now for NYS legislative "leadership" would be boundless.
For someone as penetrating as @rgay, and writing about "the ruin of public life," this piece is disturbingly complacent about traffic violence's toll on individuals, families, communities and, yes, public life.
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Can almost guarantee the NYPD will crack down on cyclists safely navigating NYC's broken infrastructure and traffic rather than the drivers barreling through it and killing them.
Crackdown on drivers turning across and parking in bike lanes? No chance. nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/04/…
In light of yesterday's mass school shooting in Nashville, we again remind you that by any reasonable definition of childhood, cars and other m.v.'s kill more U.S. kids than do firearms. (This isn't to whitewash guns, it's to highlight guns and cars alike as scourges.)
"The backlash to the effort to build more housing in the suburbs has evoked language that might have brought a smile to a Southern segregationist in the era of 'states’ rights.'" -- @maragay
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Which pic is from NIMBY rally, and which from Wallace for prez?
Poor guy. I guess the hotel ran out of Thorazine?
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Like most @RightOfWayNYC late-1990s op-eds, this essay, published 25 yrs ago today, took no prisoners in sending up car culture & their media protectors. (Talking about you, @nypost .) Breaking the mold somewhat, it ends as a tearjerker. Bring Kleenex: rightofway.org/some-deaths
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Shardy was arrested in retaliation for organizing a memorial ride and criticizing the NYPD response to cyclists being killed by drivers on the streets of NYC. And the targeting of Shardy and his rides was blatantly racist. Proud to be representing him. nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/12/…
Staged by @RightOfWayNYC & photographed by @rabonour 8 yrs ago today (a day as blustery & frigid as yesterday), the 50th anniv of the Verrazano Bridge's opening to cars & trucks. It's now 58 years, and still no bike-ped access plan in sight. @bikenewyork @TransAlt @MTA @NYC_DOT
"Officers were responding to a report of a stolen car when they drove over the double yellow line in the road to get around a vehicle in front of them." The result: a curb-jumping crash injuring 10 citizens, 4 critically. Policing in NYC is so broken. nytimes.com/2022/10/06/nyreg…
Unf*cking believable. Grieving daughter blames bike lane for causing the driver of an SUV w 168 violations, including 20 for speeding in school zones, for mounting a curb on a Bronx residential street and impaling her mom on a fence, killing her: nypost.com/2022/09/10/nyc-wo…
Continuing our 👀 at BK’s 4th Ave:
It’s striking how frequently on 4th Ave you are in the DOOR ZONE of parked cars.
Narrow 🚲 lane, design reliance on good parking & esp @NYC_DOT’s failure to finish marking parking lanes after resurfacing in 2021 put 4th Ave 🚴 at a lot of risk
Good to see @nicolegelinas catching up to our turn-of-the-century research showing vastly elevated NYC killer-driving by young motorists. We look forward to her either backing up or giving up the notion that @nycmayor has a plan to attack that. nypost.com/2022/08/13/young-…
1/3 "Carling had a zest for life and was pure sunshine to everyone she met. It is because of her positive energy and her ability to solve problems that I am here to give her a voice in this mission to make New York City a safer place to bike and walk." 1/3
The mother of slain cyclist Carling Mott made a gripping speech about her daughter as she endorsed @surajpatelnyc for Congress. We present the full speech as a public service: nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/08/…
"Carling was an avid bike rider since she was a little girl. She would bike to school, bike to practice, bike to the beach & bike w/ her friends to get lunch or breakfast. [Where we live] we have dedicated truck streets ... Stanchions are placed ... so trucks can't enter." 2/3
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In Brooklyn's 26th State Senate District, we're excited to endorse Andrew Gounardes for re-election. Hands down, no one has done more in Albany the past four years to make streets safer. Read more about @agounardes here: streetspac.org/2022_nys_sena…
