A report released last month by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign named Atlantic Avenue the most dangerous road for pedestrians in Brooklyn with 9 deaths over the three years from 2006 to 2008. Nearby Fourth Avenue ranked third with 6 pedestrian fatalities in the same period. Both roads ranked among the most dangerous in the entire [...]
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A typical view of what the 34th Street makeover would look like. NYCDOT has another daring project planned for Midtown: the transformation of 34th Street through the addition of a physically separated busway and pedestrian improvements. The changes should speed up buses in a congested crosstown corridor and provide some breathing room for pedestrians who [...] The cost of providing free NYC student MetroCards is shared by the MTA, city, and state. But the MTA's share of the cost has grown over the years, and the state dropped its share to nearly nothing in 2009. At tomorrow’s MTA board meeting, New York City students will ask to meet with MTA Chairman [...] A rendering of one of the entrances to be built as part of Moynihan Station's first phase. To much fanfare, USDOT announced the winners of the stimulus’ TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants yesterday, with two coming to our region. New York City’s Moynihan Station project to convert the Farley Post Office to a train [...] De Blasio. NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is mobilizing parents and straphangers in defense of the city’s endangered free student MetroCards. His office is seeking volunteers to hand out flyers at over 20 subway stations between 7am and 9:30am tomorrow, Thursday, February 18. The flyers will ask recipients to call Gov. Paterson and legislative [...] New Yorkers approve of the new Broadway, and the plazas have improved both safety and travel speeds. Mayor Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced this morning that the makeover of Broadway, with pedestrian plazas replacing traffic lanes for seven blocks in Midtown, will become permanent. Backing up the decision is data showing that the [...] A before-and-after rendering of a proposed design for the Nostrand Avenue bus line, at Empire Boulevard. The federal government’s fiscal year 2011 budget, released this week, has good news for Connecticut’s Hartford-New Britain Busway and New York City’s Nostrand Avenue Select Bus Service. Both were recommended for funds from the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts [...]
Traffic deaths of all kinds have fallen since 2001, but pedestrian deaths now make up most of the total. Mayor Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan announced on Wednesday that 2009 saw a record low number of traffic fatalities — down to 256 from about 290 in 2008, a decline of 12 percent [...] Pedestrian crashes are the leading cause of injury hospitalizations at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, Dr. Jamie Ullman told audience members at the second annual New York City Summit on Pedestrian Injury last week. In 2009, 256 people were treated at the hospital for a pedestrian injury. Though the vast majority of those treated recovered from [...] One of three designs for 1st/2nd Avenue bus improvements includes an offset bus lane (on the left side of the rendering, in red) and a separated bike lane. Last Thursday, MTA and NYCDOT officials released a first look at the design for the M15 “Select Bus Service” on First and Second Avenue in Manhattan, [...] |
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