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Gersh Kuntzman

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Council Member Brad Lander announced his Reckless Driver Accountability Act in 2018. File photo.

Why It’s So Hard to Get Reckless Drivers off the Road

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 6, 2020 | No Comments
Some constitutional experts think the Fourth Amendment does not in any way protect reckless drivers
The busway is a miracle. Photo: Dave Colon

NY Finds that Car-Free Transitways Work

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 19, 2019 | No Comments
Bus ridership along 14th Street is way up, bus speeds are way up, use of bicycles in the area is way up and car drivers are being inconvenienced in virtually no appreciable way.

DOT: Men in Big SUVs Are a Menace to Society

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 13, 2019 | No Comments
The popularity of SUVs and light trucks are contributing to the increase in roadway fatalities
DHL field supervisor Jose Polanco (left) and Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman show off the future of package delivery in New York City. Photo: DOT

ANALYSIS: New City Cargo Bike Delivery Program is Absolutely Perfect, Except…

By Dave Colon and Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 9, 2019 | No Comments
The city's collaboration with delivery companies to use cargo bikes instead of behemoth trucks is an absolute good in a city mired in congestion, pollution and carnage. But...
Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez (left) and Carlina Rivera.

NYC Council Bills Will Create a Bike and a Pedestrian Mayor

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 25, 2019 | No Comments
New York Council Members Carlina Rivera and Ydanis Rodriguez, both of Manhattan, will introduce a package of legislation to create two new agencies: an Office of Active Transportation, and an Office of Pedestrian.
Citi Bike's popular e-bikes will return. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

E-Citi Bikes Will Return this Winter — With Per-Minute Fees, Not a Flat Rate

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 22, 2019 | No Comments
San Francisco’s e-bikes will return in mid-December — at least a week, but more likely months, before New York’s

Half-a-BILLION Wasted in Reckless Driving by City Workers

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 21, 2019 | No Comments
The City of New York has spent more than $500 million since 2013 in payouts to the victims of road violence caused by employees of just five key agencies crashing their city-owned vehicles, Streetsblog has learned.

City Officials All over the U.S. to Feds: Don’t Mandate Helmet Laws!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 8, 2019 | No Comments
NACTO, a group of city transportation officials from all over America, urged the National Transportation Safety Board to pull back from its recommendation earlier this week that all states require adults to wear helmets.
A federal safety board issued a surprise recommendation for mandatory bike helmet laws in all 50 states — unanimously approving a last-minute resolution that had not been recommended by the board's own staff.

Federal Panel Seeks Mandatory Helmet Laws

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 5, 2019 | No Comments
A federal safety board issued a surprise recommendation for mandatory bike helmet laws in all 50 states — unanimously approving a last-minute resolution that had not been recommended by the board's own staff.
Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

NYC DOT Will Track Road Carnage Caused by SUVs

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 4, 2019 | No Comments
"By the end of this year, we will be able to provide by year the comparative numbers of fatal collisions where SUVs were involved," the agency said in a statement.
Volunteers with Bike Durham protected a vital bike lane with pumpkins for Halloween on Thursday. Photo: Shaun King/Visual Rituals

A Pumpkin-Protected Bike Lane on All Hallows’ Eve

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 1, 2019 | No Comments
In a bit of tactical urbanism, a murderer’s row of cheery orange spheroids was dropped into place just before the afternoon rush hour.

SEE IT: A True Carmaggedon at the Opening of Wegmans

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 28, 2019 | No Comments
Sunday's oddly overhyped grand opening of the new Wegmans supermarket in the Brooklyn Navy Yard lived up to expectations in one obvious way: It was an absolute carpocalypse.
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