Gersh Kuntzman
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Report: Safer for Motorists — The Rest of Us Get Slaughtered
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Fatal car crashes are down for the second straight year across the nation — but the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists are up again, further evidence that cars are getting safer only for people inside the vehicle.
Court to Local DAs: You Can Start Enforcing the Right-of-Way Law!
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A state appeals court says the city's "failure to yield" law is legal, rejecting an argument by a killer driver.
City to State: ‘Distracted Pedestrians’ is Not a Thing
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In fact, the opposite it true: only 0.2 percent of pedestrian fatality reports blamed "electronic distraction," according to a new city report that was quietly issued late on Friday.
Online Driving Courses Add to Road Fears
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New York lawmakers are making it easier for bad drivers to get licenses by allowing student drivers to take a questionable online safety course rather than the previously mandated five-hour, instructor-taught classroom session.
CYCLE OF RAGE: Forget Your Vanity Plates, Andrew, And Make Drivers Use These
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Cuomo is right that license plates are a symbol — but he's willfully blinded himself to the symbolism embodied by the cars to which they're attached. So I decided to help with my own proposals for more realistic designs.
Federal Bill Would Help Fund ‘Complete Streets’
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Sen. Ed Markey from Massachusetts is starting to put some (vegan) meat on the bones of the Green New Deal.
NYPD Used Deadly Force to Stop Cyclist Suspected of Running Red Light
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You don't understand: I'm running you over to protect you!
UPDATE: San Francisco E-Bike Fleet Will Be Restored Months Before NYC
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Lyft will restore e-bike service for its bike-share customers in San Francisco at least three months before the same bikes return to the streets of New York City.
Grieving Brooklyn Family Rails at Postal Service ‘Killers’
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What is to be done about unaccountable United States Postal Service drivers, whose trucks lack license plates?
The $2T Infrastructure Plan May Worsen Climate Change
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Without strong leadership, $2 trillion infrastructure bill could lock-in high, climate threatening transportation emissions.
Cops Who Confiscated Bikes Carried Out ‘Racist Policy’ — And Don’t Even Know the Law They Cited
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A second day of harsh criticism of NYPD harassment of cyclists that Mayor de Blasio claims he didn't know about.
Anatomy of a Debacle: Uber and Shimano Threw Lyft-Owned Citi Bike Under the Bus
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In the days since Citi Bike officials hastily pulled all their e-bikes from New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the Lyft-owned company has been under fire for not fixing the brake problem that has caused an unspecified number of crashes.