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Wednesday Winners (& Losers)

A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in tri-state transportation news.

Winners

Westchester pedestrians and cyclists — The City of Yonkers and Groundwork Hudson Valley accepted an EPA grant to fund the planning of a new greenway connecting the downtown Yonkers waterfront with Van Cortlandt Park and the NYC subway in the Bronx, and the City of Rye adopted a Complete Streets policy.

Camden and Cranford, NJ — Camden and Cranford were certified Silver- and Bronze-level Sustainable Jersey-certified communities due in part to their recentlyadopted Complete Streets policies.

Staten Island Assistant Police Chief Edward Delatorre — Delatorre, Staten Island’s top ranking police officer, said police in the borough will be cracking down on “speeding and other traffic violations that lead to accidents and pedestrians being struck.”

Losers

The MTA — The Straphangers Campaign’s third annual State of the Platforms report found substantial graffitifloor cracks and missing tiles in the MTA’s 862 platforms, as well as water damage (82 percent) and peeling paint (74 percent) in the vast majority of the MTA’s 525 underground platforms.

The person who drove a car onto a greenway — Mistaking a gravel multi-use path for a road, 25 year-old Yimi Xiao drove her Mini Countryman onto the Middlesex County Greenway in Metchuen, NJ and wound up in a ditch.

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