As School Returns, Mayor Adams Keeps a Street Safety Tool in the Drawer
Reading, writing and … a missed metric. The Adams administration has opted not to set up a Council-requested program to catch drivers who ignore flashing red lights on school buses even though one of...
View ArticleNew Year, Same Dangers: Mayor Adams Has Made Only a Tiny Fraction of School...
In eight months in office, the Adams administration has redesigned only a small fraction of roads near New York City schools to make them safer, leaving the city’s 1.75 million children vulnerable to...
View ArticleHit-and-Run Driver Injures a Kid on His Way Home From School in Coney Island
An elementary school kid was struck by a driver in Coney Island as he walked home from school with his grandmother this afternoon — and the driver kept on going, fleeing the scene even as witnesses...
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How Much Does DOT Spend to Keep Kids Safe Outside of Schools? The Agency...
The Department of Transportation frequently touts the effort it makes to improve street safety for kids, yet the agency doesn’t know — or simply won’t say — how much money it spends on projects or...
View ArticleThursday’s Headlines: Streetsblog Won An Award Edition
No red carpets for us, but Streetsblog is getting in on the awards season action this year — our investigative reporter Jesse Coburn took home the inaugural Casey Feldman Award for Transportation...
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Opinion: Mayor Adams’s Crossing Guard Cuts are Unconscionable
Heather Beers-Dimitriadis The night before Streetsblog reported that Mayor Adams was cutting 500 crossing guard positions, I was attending a Queens Community Board 6 Education/Youth Committee Meeting....
View ArticlePASS, FAIL: Automated Traffic Cameras Coming to Some NYC School Buses
Here’s one Department of Education test students won’t want to pass. Automated “enforcement” cameras are coming to more than two dozen New York City school buses this fall to record how many drivers...
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‘A Very Dangerous Job’: Dozens of NYC School Crossing Guards Injured by...
One was hit so hard she flew out of her shoes. Another was punched in the face then struck by a driver in a Jeep. One landed on her head after being slammed into the air, two were thrown onto car...
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This Albanian City Should Inspire America to Go Big on ‘School Streets’
One European city is on track to bring the revolutionary “school streets” model to every child who lives within it borders — and it’s throwing down the gauntlet to U.S. communities that have been slow...
View ArticleFriday’s Headlines: More Lunch Consumption Edition
Liberté! Egalité! Rues scolaires en toute sécurité! Our Streetfilms colleague Clarence Eckerson Jr. has done it — again! — showing how Paris, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, is not only eating New York’s...
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