Gersh Kuntzman
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Why It’s So Hard to Get Reckless Drivers off the Road
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Some constitutional experts think the Fourth Amendment does not in any way protect reckless drivers
NY Finds that Car-Free Transitways Work
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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
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The popularity of SUVs and light trucks are contributing to the increase in roadway fatalities
ANALYSIS: New City Cargo Bike Delivery Program is Absolutely Perfect, Except…
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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...
NYC Council Bills Will Create a Bike and a Pedestrian Mayor
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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.
E-Citi Bikes Will Return this Winter — With Per-Minute Fees, Not a Flat Rate
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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
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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!
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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.
Federal Panel Seeks Mandatory Helmet Laws
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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.
NYC DOT Will Track Road Carnage Caused by SUVs
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"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.
A Pumpkin-Protected Bike Lane on All Hallows’ Eve
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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
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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.