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ConnDOT officials will target pedestrian safety improvements at the section of Post Road East near the popular Shake Shack restaurant in Westport. | Photo: The Hour Operation 130 Safe Passage aims to address pedestrian safety along New Jersey’s most dangerous road. | Photo: Burlington County Times Since the release of TSTC’s most recent Most Dangerous [...] Purple lights could replace the blue lights on New York City’s Select Bus Service buses. | Photo: MTA.info/Observer It’s been an exciting week in Albany, with three important bills working their way through the New York State Legislature. Speed cameras Governor Cuomo made news last month when he directed the state Department of Motor [...] The driver of a green Ford Taurus, who allegedly robbed multiple Manhattan banks today, jumped the curb on just outside of TSTC’s offices on West 31st Street this afternoon. It appears the driver drove along the sidewalk for about 100 feet, damaging tree pits along the way, before abandoning the vehicle. No one was injured, as far as we can tell.  Photo: Joseph Cutrufo  Photo: Joseph Cutrufo The plan calls for the expansion of the City’s Select Bus Service network. | Image: PlaNYC The coverage of Mayor Bloomberg’s $20 billion storm resiliency plan for New York City has largely focused on big ticket items like building levees, flood walls and berms and even the potential for a “Battery Park [...] There were 1,149 vehicle crashes with pedestrians or bicyclists in Albany County between January 1, 2009 and May 31, 2012. | Map: Geocommons.com There were 2,453 vehicle crashes with pedestrians or bicyclists in Westchester County between January 1, 2009 and May 31, 2012. | Map: Geocommons.com From January 1, 2009 through May [...] Fresh Direct will relocate to the Bronx from its current headquarters in Queens. The question that remains is how the City and State will mitigate the impacts of increased truck traffic in the community. | Photo: New York Times It looks like increased truck traffic will soon be a reality for residents of the [...] Texting behind the wheel is dangerous, but Governor Cuomo must address the real danger: speeding. | Photos: Politics on the Hudson, Road Safety Ink On May 31, Governor Cuomo issued tougher penalties for those who text while driving and directed police to ramp up enforcement across the state. Meanwhile, the Governor has remained silent on [...] Good Jobs First’s recently-released report, “Bosses for Buses,” finds a schism in business support for transit. At the local level, non-profits such as universities and hospitals, as well as local business coalitions largely recognize the importance of transit investment, pushing “state and local ballot initiatives for transit [that] consistently win more than 70 percent of [...] Vision Long Island’s 2013 Smart Growth Awards are just one week away. The ceremony takes place on Friday, June 14 at 11:30 a.m. at The Huntington Hilton in Melville, New York. This year’s honorees include: United States Representative Peter King Superstorm Sandy Cleanup and Rebuilding Volunteers LaunchPad Mineola Smithtown Main Street Bolt Bus [...] Citi Bike stations are clustered in Lower Manhattan and parts of northern Brooklyn, but elected officials in other parts of the city are already calling for its expansion. | Map: citibikenyc.com/stations And so it begins… Citi Bike launched less than one week ago, and (as TSTC predicted earlier this month) elected officials who [...] |
 
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